Our interview is with Sultan Meghji, CEO of Neocova. We cover the large Chinese investment in quantum technology and what it means for the United States. It’s possible that Chinese physicists are even better than American physicists at extracting funding from their government. Indeed, it looks as though some quantum tech, such as the… Continue Reading
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Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Dmitri Alperovitch
Posted in Blockchain, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies, Virtual CurrencyRansomware is the new black. In fact, it’s the new China. So says our guest for episode 116, Dmitri Alperovitch, the CTO and co-founder of CrowdStrike. Dmitri explains why ransomware is so attractive financially – and therefore likely to get much worse very fast. He and I also explore the implications and attribution of the… Continue Reading
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Dmitri Alperovitch
Posted in China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & PoliciesOur guest for Episode 62 is is Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and CTO of CrowdStrike Inc. and former Vice President of Threat Research at McAfee. Dmitri unveils a new Crowdstrike case study in which his company was able to impose high costs on an elite Chinese hacking team. The hackers steadily escalated the sophistication of their… Continue Reading
US Head of Delegation at WCIT Badmouths Deep Packet Inspection
Posted in International, Privacy RegulationIt’s been a contentious meeting in Dubai at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), where the United States and its allies have been trying to fend off efforts by Russia, China, and others to expand the writ of the International Telecommunications Union to cover the Internet. Besides that fundamental dispute, there have been some… Continue Reading
Antivirus Software is Not Failproof
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data BreachMikko Hypponen of F-Secure, an antivirus company, wrote an interesting post discussing the limits of antivirus software. Of particular note is that Flame, Stuxnet, and Duqu were all reported to antivirus firms months or years before they were flagged as malware. He suggests that his and other antivirus firms failed because of the sophistication of Western intelligence… Continue Reading