How is an application program interface different from an other application interface? At a basic level, they are the same – in the sense that anything that can be exploited from one can be exploited from another – or at least it should be that way from a security perspective. But unfo9rtunately, that’s not how …
People who don’t have to do it seem to not understand the nature of the cyber threat. This very short summary is intended for everyone who is responsible for it to hand to everyone else to help start a conversation and gain mutual understanding. The 6 questions people are commonly taught to ask are: who, …
Perhaps because more higher impact incidents are making the media these days. Perhaps there is an actual increase in threat actors, their activities, or the effectiveness of their activities. Perhaps the defenses have been spread too thin, perhaps … oh heck, perhaps all sorts of things. I know that in my career, I have been …
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Privilege escalation has always been a problem in computers, and after all these years, we still don’t seem to have a handle on the issue. I think this is closely related to our lack of understanding and systematic deployment of trust models and the nature of trust. Non-zero trust One of the good things about …
Standard deviation and standard error are two statistical measures that often get confused with each other. While both measures describe the variability in the data, they serve different purposes. Standard deviation measures the spread of the data. It calculates how far the individual data points deviate from the mean of the data set. A low …
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A new tactic appears to have arisen in the use of generative AI in social media. This tactic is comprised of rapidly generating seemingly knowledgeable responses to other people. One of the many challenges of this approach is that the generative AI is so lightweight in terms of understanding (It has none), that it mistakes …
Let’s explore the Central Limit Theorem (CLT) with an example of rolling two dice multiple times (let’s say 30 times). We will calculate the mean of the two dice values and plot its distribution to understand the CLT intuitively. Round 1: We roll the dice and get 2 and 5. The sample mean of 2 …
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This is not the first time a young person has had authorized access to substantial amounts oftop secret sensitive compartmented information (TS/SCI) and leaked it. How could thishappen? It’s easy to understand… What do 20-year old people do in the military? Among other things, they are in the field being shot at and shooting, driving …
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