Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

Well after the now notorious email scandal and other information security mishaps galore, this advertisement in Washington, DC is really q...

We're so close yet so far...that's my feeling as I grow ever impatient with the pace of technological progress.  We have cloud...

So modesty and privacy is very important in terms of propriety and security. Both are intimately connected.  Already as children, we l...

I liked this post in downtown Washington, D.C. inscribed with the following: "May Peace Prevail On Earth." It left me wonder...

This week Adm. Michael Rogers, the Director of the National Security Agency and head of U.S. Cyber Command issued a stark warning to the...

So data is like clouds... Clouds want to be free roaming the wild blue skies similar to how data wants to be searchable, accessible, u...

So, true story. I know identify theft is a serious matter, but really... I'm heading out of the driveway and I see the newpaper de...

This video is a wake up call on the state of our national cyber insecurity.  It is the opening statement (about 6 minutes) of Chairman M...

Interesting article in BBC about a project underway to develop a system that will rate information on the Internet as trustworthy or not....

I really like the concept for Cyber Security by Shape Security . They have an appliance called a ShapeShifter that uses polymorphism to c...

Here's three topics for the curious of mind today: - Are we technologically safer?   As we attempt to beef up IT security, we contin...

Mashable is reporting that a team of university students from University of Texas at Austin were able to spoof the GPS receivers on an $8...

Usually when we talk about the dangers of cyber attacks, we are concerned with the dangers of someone stealing, spying, or systematic...

Buying a serious computer vulnerability is now like acquiring a nuke on the black market.  Nations and terrorists will pay to find the...

BBC News Technology  (9 July 2013) reports on how the U.S. Emergency Alert System (EAS) was hacked.  The EAS is a program of the Fed...

For those interested in the field of cybersecurity, I wanted to share some useful websites that I've come across:  1) Cybersecurity ...

Many of you may have probably the seen the movie, "Children of Men,"--it is themed around a time in the future when women are in...

In you haven't heard of Project Aurora, this is a wonderful segment from 60 Minutes on this cyberwar project.  Faced with some o...

So I am back in school AGAIN (I'm a life-long learner), augmenting my not so slow-paced job. Let's just say that at this poi...

Ever since the 1960's airing of Mission Impossible, where each episode started with the instructions for a dangerous mission on a ta...