On Protecting the Undersea Cable System

Seabees remove corroded zinc anodes from an undersea cable. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnavy/28073762161) Cables the size of a garden hose crisscross the oceans. Unlike your hose at home, these cables require all the protection afforded to other pieces of critical infrastructure, like the…

The EU’s AI Act Is Barreling Toward AI Standards That Do Not Exist

(Jai79, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:European_Commission_in_Brussels.jpg; CC0 1.0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en) Efforts to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) must aim to balance protecting the health, safety, and fundamental rights of individuals while reaping the benefits of innovation. These regulations will protect people from physical harms (like AI…

Worldwide Ransomware Attacks Trend

According to Comparitech’s worldwide ransomware tracker, 2022 saw a huge dip in the number of publicly-reported ransomware attacks. In 2022, 769 attacks were collated by the researchers, compared to 1,365 in 2021.  But that’s not to say hackers have been any…

What Is Mutual Authentication?

Mutual authentication, also known as two-way authentication or website-to-user authentication, is a security mechanism that requires the two sides of a communications channel to authenticate each other’s identities (instead of just one side verifying the other) before moving forward with…