FTC Data Shows Text-based Bank Impersonation is Most-Reported Scam; Agency Head Khan Warns of AI ‘Turbocharging’ Scams

A new analysis from the Federal Trade Commission shows that bogus bank fraud warnings were the most common form of text message scam reported to the agency, and that many of the most common text ...

Analysis

The YouBase Case Study: Managing Genetic and Health Data on the Blockchain

 In this post, We resume our efforts to understand the risks and opportunities in the exponential Biotech, Medical and Healthcare sector by taking a look at a seminal case study by the Blockchain Research Institute ...

Analysis

Save the Date: August 1-4, 2023 – USA Hosting the International Cybersecurity Championship & Conference (San Diego, CA)

What is the International Cybersecurity Championship & Conference?

Analysis

The Secondary Chip and Hardware Markets: The Strategic Importance of Legacy Chips

In March, researchers at The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released a report on "The Strategic Importance of Legacy Chips"  - which addresses many of the questions we left open-ended and ripe for follow-on ...

Analysis

Next Tuesday, June 27th (Now Available On-demand): A Webinar on the New National Cybersecurity Strategy and Critical Infrastructure Protection w/ OODA CTO Bob Gourley

The New National Cybersecurity Strategy: What You Need to Know about the Requirements for Critical Infrastructure Protection 

Analysis

An Unprecedented Advisory Calls for Replacing – not Patching – Barracuda’s Email Security Gateway (ESG) 900 Hardware

Earlier this month, Brian Krebs over at Krebs on Security captured the nuts and bolts of this “fairly stunning" course of events surrounding a zero-day vulnerability: "It’s not often that a zero-day vulnerability causes ...

Analysis

A “Faster, Secure Pipeline”: DoD Signals Awareness of the Challenges Faced by Small Business Tech Contractors

Every once in a while a signal emerges from our tracking efforts which feels like finding a needle in a haystack.  This development is one of those times.  

Analysis

Bob Gourley and Vint Cerf Discuss Early Silicon Valley Lore, the Future of Neural Interfaces and Science Fiction

We pick up where we left them in the initial post of the transcript of the Keynote Conversation at OODAcon 2022: OODA CTO Bob Gourley and Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf.  In this part of the ...

Analysis

The State Department’s Sustained $500M Commitment to Bolster Global Computer Chip Supply Chain Security (as Prescribed by the 2021 OODA Stratigame)

This month,  The State Department "unveiled details of its plans to use $100 million of funding provided under the 2022 CHIPS Act to improve semiconductor supply chain security and international information and communications technology security.  ...

Analysis

Blockchain Meets Bio: The Recent Synthetic Biology Summit and “Sustainable Biomanufacturing for Future Network States”

Opportunities for advantage will be created by the exponential disruption of the industrial base (including that of defense) coupled with exponential biotechnology innovation to build the bioeconomy of the future.  The creation of this technology ...

Analysis