Build better software. If President Joe Biden has his way, that will no longer be a request, a plea, or even an exhortation. It will be a mandate. Or at least a warning with a legal stick behind it. Among the five major “pillars” of the president’s much-anticipated National Cybersecurity…

Very small things can have very big consequences. That’s why the security of the software that runs much of the nation’s critical infrastructure (CI) is so important. A single vulnerability in often lengthy and labyrinthine software supply chains can lead to catastrophic damage. Recall the panic in December 2021 after…

Software may not be as universal as the air we breathe but it’s getting close. Everybody and every organization depends on it in multiple ways — for work, play, shopping, banking, travel, entertainment, communication, household appliances — the list goes on. And most of that software is what’s called open…

It was the late stand-up comic Professor Irwin Corey who injected some humor into an obvious truth: “You can get a lot more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word.” As in, sometimes force works better than persuasion. And it looks like the…

People respond to incentives, hence the political cliché: “If you want more of something, subsidize it. If you want less of something, tax it.” That principle applies to more than politics. Welcome to the world of information sharing — or lack of information sharing — about cybersecurity breaches, even though…

There is no technology that can’t, and won’t, be used for both good and evil. So, no surprise, that’s what’s happening with ChatGPT, the latest, hottest tech toy. The chatbot was created by OpenAI, a research firm that declares its mission is to “ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all…

The dream of autonomous vehicles is obviously alluring: Summon a driverless car with an app, hop into it a few minutes later, and settle in with a book or movie, or simply take a nap while it takes you anywhere you want to go — the next town, a nearby…

Supposedly it was iconic New York Yankee Yogi Berra who said that “predictions are hard, especially about the future.” But then, some claim it was iconic Yankees manager Casey Stengel who said “don’t make predictions, especially about the future.” Whatever — same general idea. The difficulty of predicting what’s going…

It’s crystal-ball-gazing time for cybersecurity experts. But you don’t need a crystal ball — you don’t even need to be an expert — to predict that the ransomware tsunami will continue, and probably get worse. Statistics on the number of attacks in the year just passed are all over the…