Lunar Halo over Snowy Trees via NASA https://t.co/zwPnvVQcMv pic.twitter.com/m8ODLVwU1i
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) February 1, 2021
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Lunar Halo over Snowy Trees via NASA https://t.co/zwPnvVQcMv pic.twitter.com/m8ODLVwU1i
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) February 1, 2021
The SEC changed requirements for RH based on their clients economic status.. and @sambowne I accept your earlier argument the SEC denied traders their first amendment rights to respond to a publicly broadcast slander.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) February 1, 2021
“may have exposed Robinhood to significant risk if the customers disappear, because their portion is underwater,” he said. “It's a risk management
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) February 1, 2021
Had not seen this. Yes.. good to note that maybe ‘their portion was underwater’.. the SEC upped the cash RH needed..
Was Robinhood not buying? Was Robinhood buying options? Finally, trading never stops when things get “stupid”, like when a stock price drops below a company’s hard assets, cash and pension funds.. which makes no sense.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 31, 2021
interesting opinion.. I don’t have the entire timeline.. but here is what I know. The SEC came after Robinhood and asked that they have more liqudity(?). The reddit buyers were buying, not options.. so, they were all in.. not pumping and dumping... so why more liquidity?
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 31, 2021
Sophisticated social engineering attack.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 31, 2021
Google warns of a North Korean social engineering campaign targeting security researchers https://t.co/J7vYGLMt9L#infosec #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computersecurity pic.twitter.com/bAFFpCClOc
Across the rich world around half of covid-19 deaths have been in care homes. Countries need to radically rethink how they care for their elderly—and some innovative solutions are on offer https://t.co/n6bEjpS4yH
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 31, 2021
@TheEconomist #covid19 #sarscov2 pic.twitter.com/IHuuw4zY5a
Asteroids in the Distance via NASA https://t.co/hGs6pO6Vlu pic.twitter.com/lVF3DQLIze
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 31, 2021
Hey Les Kidz(@les_kidz), thank you for following me
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 30, 2021
Southern Sky at 38,000 Feet via NASA https://t.co/v61JzpfdA3 pic.twitter.com/J0P6fBD04U
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 30, 2021
North American Nightscape via NASA https://t.co/s8LLZXbdtx pic.twitter.com/ExsOnsFpbe
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 29, 2021
Messier 66 Close Up via NASA https://t.co/y0IHlgI7vt pic.twitter.com/zjBJ0ieJay
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 28, 2021
eh, Miami.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 28, 2021
The Vertical Magnetic Field of NGC 5775 via NASA https://t.co/zAjheM9v2N pic.twitter.com/eRB48OY1eW
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 27, 2021
same as setting an unsigned integer to 0.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 27, 2021
and election denying CEOs are the new short.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 26, 2021
interesting choice. Kind of like the Olympics US and China’s synchronized dissection of their social media giants?
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 26, 2021
and a lifetime supply of free accommodations whenever a government official visits. I think longer is better, but no need to create a community where they can organize in private.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 26, 2021
Central NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide via NASA https://t.co/KBF8RFPM1V pic.twitter.com/Zk14GwoFvs
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 26, 2021
Hey Shailendra Kumar(@meisshaily), thank you for following me
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 25, 2021
My Cybersecurity reminisce of 2020 and predictions for 2021.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 25, 2021
Welcome to the 21st Century's Third Decade - 2021 https://t.co/7XRFcvKgtC#infosec #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computersecurity #ai #ml #artificialintelligence #machinelanguage #mlsec #2020 #2021 pic.twitter.com/QJx3vvSJhw
quid-pro-quo protesters expecting a pardon.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 25, 2021
Southern Cross over Chilean Volcano via NASA https://t.co/EM9rskgUXt pic.twitter.com/L2RsyizJkC
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 25, 2021
Why the Covid Vaccine Rollout Is Not Enough to Curb Infections - The New York Times https://t.co/mK6aBDe6w6#covid19 #sarscov2 pic.twitter.com/IjqRtOZX9V
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 25, 2021
49&&50 were already asked, only repeat for certification exams.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 24, 2021
Question 51: this is asked often, but an accurate answer is probably two hours long.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 24, 2021
most interviewers don’t understand ICMP enough to ask this question.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 24, 2021
6. ping does use “ports”.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 24, 2021
Both of these are poor questions. very unprofessional to discuss confidential information. That being said discussing setting up a home office or how an information security policy should be written is fair. If a company’s information security policy is public, then that is fair
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 24, 2021
“The Lord” or “the lord”. semantics matters.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 24, 2021
Massive Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 via NASA https://t.co/7q6EuEmajX pic.twitter.com/Z9pbVVJu0F
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 24, 2021
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 24, 2021
Larry King was many things — accurate reviewer now among them. https://t.co/9p4ByqTcdp
— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) January 23, 2021
Malware found on laptops given out by government https://t.co/r9e9zSg0nk @BBCNews#infosec #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computersecurity pic.twitter.com/rZOrSth5wM
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 23, 2021
Recycling Cassiopeia A via NASA https://t.co/85TzNRN4Ks pic.twitter.com/qwoxtp3qOo
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 23, 2021
Do humans have to survive the beta test?
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 22, 2021
Reminds me of ning. Which was the answer to “When people just want to make money”. I’ll probably subscribe.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 22, 2021
The Milky Ring via NASA https://t.co/34kytgMzl7 pic.twitter.com/1PnOaDde3l
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 22, 2021
How are you going to rehab all social media? Except for maybe YouTube/Tiktok and IG?
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 22, 2021
I used to say you cannot argue with a crazy person.. but then the age of Internet happened, and everyone seems crazy. Mainly because too little information is transmitted via text.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 22, 2021
M78 Wide Field via NASA https://t.co/LPkHzCevHK pic.twitter.com/4BVmu2Ugov
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 21, 2021
@VybeSoftware Our site https://t.co/cJGeixCMUc is being held hostage by Vybe Software. Our yearly fee was paid in December 2020 and their services stopped. Does anyone in Austin actually know tech? #austin #vybesoftware #austintech
— dangermodel.io (@DangermodelI) January 21, 2021
Google Details Patched Bugs in Signal, FB Messenger, JioChat Apps https://t.co/G6b1y2jA04 @TheHackersNews#infosec #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computersecurity pic.twitter.com/uCyi9WFSp9
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 20, 2021
words.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 20, 2021
yours, others, mean only what you let them.
unless science. #sanfrancisco
The Magnetic Field of the Whirlpool Galaxy via NASA https://t.co/7qsHFLlCIP pic.twitter.com/xcv4Eyrb3L
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 20, 2021
Researchers Discover Raindrop — 4th Malware Linked to the SolarWinds Attack https://t.co/NDdNUBQ4At @TheHackersNews#infosec #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computersecurity #solarwindshack #raindrop pic.twitter.com/tE6qcq5xqs
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 19, 2021
As DNS takes a spotlight this month.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 19, 2021
A Set of Severe Flaws Affect Popular DNSMasq DNS Forwarder https://t.co/rw1jiAxXsI @TheHackersNews#infosec #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computersecurity pic.twitter.com/Sh8MoZHDlU
those were not the pokemon in pokemon go challenge.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 19, 2021
A Lunar Corona with Jupiter and Saturn via NASA https://t.co/oEymiekgpa pic.twitter.com/maUKH8QuOa
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 19, 2021
Deaths after vaccine aside from being rare are determined to be from other illnesses.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 19, 2021
Norway says no link between COVID-19 vaccine and several elderly recipients' deaths - CBS News https://t.co/m7IGTJGfEg @CBSNews
My Cybersecurity reminisce of 2020 and predictions for 2021.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 18, 2021
Welcome to the 21st Century's Third Decade - 2021 https://t.co/7XRFcvKgtC#infosec #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computersecurity #ai #ml #artificialintelligence #machinelanguage #mlsec #2020 #2021 pic.twitter.com/YzaRDqeG2P
The Medulla Nebula Supernova Remnant via NASA https://t.co/1z2FzLLojN pic.twitter.com/QBld9KVNIV
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 18, 2021
Germany has 13 Pfizer Vaccine deaths
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 17, 2021
Covid-19: Norway investigates 23 deaths in frail elderly patients after vaccination | The BMJ https://t.co/RlREqTx9yM#covid19 #sarscov2 #vaccine
Jets from Unusual Galaxy Centaurus A via NASA https://t.co/ZUZL1nmoif pic.twitter.com/veqcGaNrqZ
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 17, 2021
Some great quotes: “the rigidity of school is not for the benefit of children, but for the benefit of the institution.”
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 16, 2021
The Economist Asks: Jimmy Wales - Is social media still a force for good? | Podcasts | The Economist https://t.co/JOby7KukuT @TheEconomist#wikipedia pic.twitter.com/etlEBcuAYA
Google praises the hacker’s skill. “sophisticated actor”
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 16, 2021
Hackers Used Zero-Days to Infect Windows and Android Devices | WIRED https://t.co/DX6mOsFKUX @dangoodin001 @wired #infosec #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computersecurity pic.twitter.com/nyaUBBhSJV
The Mountains of NGC 2174 via NASA https://t.co/kkkQ0Ieijd pic.twitter.com/52fz7wjMwr
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 16, 2021
New Covid variant first found in UK could become dominant strain in U.S. by March, CDC says https://t.co/7eAX1XpbEL @higginsdunn @cnbc #covid19 #sarscov2 pic.twitter.com/RKOVlZTL8N
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 16, 2021
@nsa site stops responding high level doc, agrees with my DNS arch
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 15, 2021
“if you don’t own . you don’t own your network”
NSA Recommends How Enterprises Can Securely Adopt Encrypted DNS https://t.co/dtaHg3co78 @nsagov#infosec #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computersecurity pic.twitter.com/Jb9SXwm9LF
Don’t Panic
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 15, 2021
Pfizer Vaccine is in the news https://t.co/OqTzzyHYwu @usatoday#covid19 #sarscov2 #pfizer pic.twitter.com/DrJGsxdI0u
Nothing. Hackers are not made. Skillz are taught.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 15, 2021
A Plutonian Landscape via NASA https://t.co/ff4zIUEL1H pic.twitter.com/dwTdH5LAdh
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 15, 2021
Misconfigurations.. static configurations.. poor infosec. https://t.co/usbtufB0rP
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 15, 2021
Well done.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 15, 2021
Aurora Slathers Up the Sky via NASA https://t.co/LoLsbZN0dF pic.twitter.com/hZBmZ6O7W6
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 14, 2021
ST: Discovery has the two best captains in the Star Trek Universe. Picard was written and acted well, but lacked baby Data.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 14, 2021
Jar Jar shows how important semantics are, speech by itself becomes hyperbole, and like from a bullhorn, actions are distorted as if through a microscope, of nothing familiar. Jar Jar is a lesson. Same will happen to the next Xeno we create or meet.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 14, 2021
Shakespeare stole.. and optimized.. optimized and stole. But to be fair the only stories not found in The Bible are found in the Gnostic Scriptures. (and maybe Asimov).
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 14, 2021
I do not understand Northern Ireland or Scotland. Politically.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 14, 2021
me thinks you have an opinion... Where was viral marketing on the two biggest viral days?
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 14, 2021
y? static is... unless its a reference book and you have dyslexia.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 14, 2021
Arches Across an Arctic Sky via NASA https://t.co/E0RjDk31Rs pic.twitter.com/rFlBFsic3z
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 13, 2021
Unveiled: SUNSPOT Malware Was Used to Inject SolarWinds Backdoor https://t.co/oeWauYtkDK @TheHackersNews#infosec #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computersecurity #sunspot #orion #SolarWindshack pic.twitter.com/nh0NRDBh0r
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 12, 2021
A Historic Brazilian Constellation via NASA https://t.co/9ewlPBpVd5 pic.twitter.com/RAeO37A4eK
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 12, 2021
Hey Stas(@St2343Sts), thank you for following me
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 11, 2021
pondering.. any connection between Nashville and DC? Disruption of mobile phone service could facilitate a larger attack. I did a quick look and did not find anything, but wanted to send to a broader audience.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 11, 2021
My Cybersecurity reminisce of 2020 and predictions for 2021.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 11, 2021
Welcome to the 21st Century's Third Decade - 2021 https://t.co/7XRFcvKgtC#infosec #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computersecurity #ai #ml #artificialintelligence #machinelanguage #mlsec #2020 #2021 pic.twitter.com/FVU74zqN4l
Wow. Glad my commute is much shorter this week. #twitter https://t.co/8VZLs48sP0
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 11, 2021
the universe is, by design, destined to “die”. *We* are a part of U*, to paraphrase heroes: Save ourself, save U*!
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 11, 2021
Hey Lloyd Paramasamy(@LParamasamy), thank you for following me
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 11, 2021
Star Cluster R136 Breaks Out via NASA https://t.co/kBWGEcgAFk pic.twitter.com/ihwMwlzRiy
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 10, 2021
Titan: Moon over Saturn via NASA https://t.co/NWa26mDB4w pic.twitter.com/L0hUDtmiSx
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 9, 2021
Pequod’s crap pizza? Ordered via goldbelly. crust is huge, no cheese, no caramelized cheese and no sauce, crappy bread, not Italian. Taking advantage of people during self-isolation @PequodsPizza #nofilter #chicago #pequodspizza #baddelivery https://t.co/cfBxPOUX6A pic.twitter.com/t5NyivyjPC
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 9, 2021
Pequod’s crap pizza? I have been privileged to have eaten there twice and I ordered via goldbelly. and the crust is 99% of the size (see pictures) with no cheese, no caramelized cheese and no sauce. just a crappy bread.. someone needs to learn how to make bread or even Italian.. a zero. tasteless, just thousands of calories and carbs with zero taste.
I understand that shipping across country is difficult, most can’t ship/deliver across town, but pizza crust doesn’t transform into an inedible, gummy, attack on people sheltered because they are suffering with sars-cov-2. Which just to clarify I either have the flu and a constant asthma attack or have gotten this probably a second time.
Taking advantage of a global pandemic and sending something cheap and inferior is unforgivable.
#Pequod's #Pizza #Chicago #Ginos #Loumalnati's
#nofilter #chicago #pequodspizza #sfgoodie #sanfrancisco #baddelivery
sometimes people tweet their fear, sometimes their hope, but mostly neither or not.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 9, 2021
I did not watch GoT.. but I know what happens next.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 9, 2021
that is how evolution happens
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 9, 2021
Captain Michael Burnham is my second favorite captain in the Star Trek universe, Captain Philippa Georgiou is my first.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 9, 2021
define offline. We are passively online always. As the prayer goes: May the online keep us well, continue to earn while we sleep, to feed and clothe all peoples everywhere.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 9, 2021
Europe’s Contested Deal With China Sends Warning to Joe Biden - Bloomberg @bpolitics https://t.co/yXUAJL8dYB#uschina #euchina #bidensfirstmoment pic.twitter.com/dzwYCqrIOk
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 8, 2021
Ill-timed, unenforceable and naive were just some of the criticisms leveled at the China-Europe investment deal https://t.co/Zw7ySTpfQ1
— Bloomberg (@business) January 8, 2021
#ai #ml #artificialintelligence #machinelanguage #mlsec https://t.co/rxeog8BWdu
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 8, 2021
NGC 1365: Majestic Island Universe via NASA https://t.co/NDIO7LB21A pic.twitter.com/BAtalGMwSa
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 8, 2021
All of the answers are infosec lies. “Data is not an asset” can hurt the most people, data should be protected, privacy enforced. #infosec #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computersecurity #privacy
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 8, 2021
Excellent question and better answers. I would go with the broadest. “data isn’t an asset”. #infosec #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computersecurity https://t.co/v1XiIi9RYX
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 8, 2021
From press reports most congresspersons have private security, so they have many guns at their behest, and no or little liability.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 8, 2021
It is the flag of the United States of America last updated over fifty years ago, an iconic symbol of freedom, democracy and justice. And yes, it represents all Americans no matter where or how they serve. #ionlyseeoneflag
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 7, 2021
Waymo won't talk about 'self-driving' cars anymore, in apparent dig at Tesla | ZDNet @ZDNet#ai #ml #artificialintelligence #machinelanguage #mlsec https://t.co/PzhWvtjeyo pic.twitter.com/YI8kMUNoGM
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 7, 2021
Total Solar Eclipse 2020 via NASA https://t.co/LyWE8EuL7L pic.twitter.com/HUUNNJpBrk
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 7, 2021
Hey WireWheel(@wirewheel_io), thank you for following me
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 6, 2021
Striped Sand Dunes on Mars via NASA https://t.co/5giSTfP8tq pic.twitter.com/YESzG00zBx
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 6, 2021
New California legislation protections against huge tax increases, will cause home prices/equity will soar, local gov will be defunded.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 5, 2021
Home prices are up in the Bay Area, despite the pandemic - San Francisco Business Times https://t.co/yLV67bi3YX @svbizjournal#sfhousing pic.twitter.com/yMosbeI4Q9
The Small Cloud of Magellan via NASA https://t.co/OmQPqs35sx pic.twitter.com/QKeNmXuCZi
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 5, 2021
Sounds like a Y2K moment. (The code rewrites and device refresh, not the hysteria).
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 4, 2021
As Understanding of Russian Hacking Grows, So Does Alarm https://t.co/2j0qLx9Yaj#infosec #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computersecurity #SolarWinds pic.twitter.com/kjDZLAoSjs
Germany could make home-working a legal right | World Economic Forum https://t.co/n0kWdJdVQL#infosec #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computersecurity #remotework pic.twitter.com/mkgsjEuVBk
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 4, 2021
Secret Backdoor Account Found in Several Zyxel Firewall, VPN Products @TheHackersNews https://t.co/MOm3FcabeZ#infosec #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computersecurity pic.twitter.com/pKbbHLd5EZ
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 4, 2021
British Court Rejects U.S. Request to Extradite WikiLeaks' Julian Assange https://t.co/Fc0QEc5Or8 @TheHackersNews#infosec #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computersecurity pic.twitter.com/91HCqMhsk6
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 4, 2021
My Cybersecurity reminisce of 2020 and predictions for 2021.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 4, 2021
Welcome to the 21st Century's Third Decade - 2021 https://t.co/7XRFcvKgtC#infosec #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computersecurity #ai #ml #artificialintelligence #machinelanguage #mlsec #2020 #2021 pic.twitter.com/rgDlgCyor4
My Cybersecurity reminisce of 2020 and predictions for 2021.
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 4, 2021
Welcome to the 21st Century's Third Decade - 2021 https://t.co/7XRFcvKgtC#infosec #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computersecurity #ai #ml #artificialintelligence #machinelanguage #mlsec #2020 #2021 pic.twitter.com/au8y1o52Li
Sprite Lightning at 100000 Frames Per Second via NASA https://t.co/fswPXBt5il pic.twitter.com/4Hvw8wTmdp
— Dean Norris (@geekynerdyone) January 4, 2021
Welcome to the 21st Century's Third Decade - 2021
Cybersecurity and Technology a look back and forward
A Look Back at 2020
Common Era 2020 went out with a bang, setting mortality world records no one wanted and are still broken daily. A once in a century pandemic that governments, doctors and scientists knew would happen, just not when or how terrible. Perhaps smaller pandemics over the past twenty years which were controlled easily and less than a blip compared to yearly flu infections, which were a reminder that the world's last pandemic had never been conquered and continued to add to its mortality world record. Its lesson in humility had been forgotten until now.
Looking back over the past ten months cybersecurity's biggest hurdles were securing and deploying remote workers, election security had many engineers working long hours without recognition, AI's False Information attacks like DeepFake images and videos. The largest cybersecurity attack was discovered late after years of hiding, the SolarWinds Orion hack will be felt for many many months.
Looking Way Back - the past decade 2011-2020
The past decade in cybersecurity began with a small, but necessary insight for using "2020" as a our digit year (much like leading up to "2000"), and then an increase in Ransomware, new speed records for DDOS attacks, theoretical quantum computing challenges to cryptography with some interesting tests and attacks against CPU optimization pipelines with Meltdown and Spectre. IOT and consumer products that can never be patched, so difficult Apple discontinued their Airport Extreme WIFI product. A marked rise in machine learning use by criminals and information security professionals alike. The gamification of infosec making learning, teaching and mundane security tasks fun. A gig economy for penetration testing, more implementations of Zero Trust and various ways to secure software engineering development and deployment transformations with CI/CD pipelines, cloud first multi-tenant architectures and devops standards which are as custom as they are similar. Finally, the EU has declared privacy as a human right, and a mandated priority to be measured and treasured, but just means less sleep for us. Though, privacy implementations I power through with a smile on my face, let us all hope that does not fade away.
The security terrain has evolved, but fundamentals such as Risk is still the metric, with Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of import for tasks, devices, software and persons... every person. New security frameworks that seem old now, but are less than a decade in age. MITRE ATT&CK, Cloud Security Framework, a new comprehensive NIST 800-53, even the RSA Conference and CISSP exams evolved.
All Eyes Forward - the next 18 months 2021
My personal guesses and Infosec lottery pics. In 2021 we will still be finding how bad SolarWinds Orion is, and that will be a high priority for many companies who failed to securely configure their networks and servers. SolarWinds hit government institutions hard, and may accelerate their current cloud deployment push, along with federal information security legislation and oversight, much like the Dobbs Frank Act. A wilder guess would be federal taxes would be imposed for companies benefiting from the free publicity because they were hacked. Thirty seconds on CNBC or Bloomberg is not cheap, lots of reporters own stock in these companies and are not shy sprinkling in their mentions. Entrepreneurs have a word for this.
New remote employee architectures solidify and be deployed. Corporations have been divesting employee perks as what used to be expensive, like cellphones and Internet access are now ubiquitous or commodities. Continuing to reduce expenses around office space seems like a logical next step. I expect a return to regular offices and then a migration back to home offices (2025). A company like WeWork will do well, if their price is right.
Outside of cybersecurity there debt that will need to be addressed, some companies have already closed, others (as we saw with the DOT-COM crash and 9/11) will just disappear quietly. Individuals have far more limited options, but new laws passed by places like California insure a housing market boom, and home owners being able to borrow against what will surely be as transformational to cities as 1970s, late 1990s through mid 2000s. Rural areas, that resisted previous booms will just see their taxes rise.
With a 500% increase in San Francisco overdoses during 2020, I expect a high number of people with new or previous alcoholic and prescription dependencies to be seeking treatment.
Finally, a non-partisan to review US medical and insurance responses, especially long term care such as nursing homes.
Further out - 2022-2030
New AI/ML IOT devices and software for all phases of software development, by 2030 most code generated will be done by an AI or AI helper. There may be some holdouts like government and large companies. I admit this is a fantastical prediction because this technology does not exist, no one seems to know how to make this work, but some AI/ML programs create configurations, test plans, evaluate test plans, and can arrange objects on a web page. Hopefully someone will finally create a usable enterprise calendaring, messaging and HR system.
In regular consumer products I expect that self driving cars will be the norm, and with Apple's entry (or suspected entry) a car will become a commodity product like mobile devices, replaced every year or two. A large debate will be at what age should you buy your child a car, is five years old too young? The answer will be no, not too young. legislation for protections on child only cars and as I have said before all cars will not be the same size and/or look the same. Bikes and human hybrid powered or hybrid controlled vehicles will need their own road/lane - but their are other solutions - this is the easiest to create and enforce, and should be rethought for CE 2031 and beyond. Most large cities already have HOV lanes, and cameras, toll tracking is not uncommon. Perhaps a transit and bike lane will reverse and be for human controlled vehicles in inner cities.
Blockchain security solutions will be adopted, maybe even loved and treasured. How are we not using these already? I guess I left that patent at a previous company.
Finally, perhaps more of a fantastical outlook, I am hopeful a sincere secure consumer privacy solution will emerge by 2030 and be adopted by companies and people, but like with most things unless Microsoft integrates it into their Windows OS, or perhaps Google or Apple in their mobile devices and usage is simple, hidden and "just works" it probably won't catch on.
And for the COVID19 front, unless these mutations are found to be worse than we currently know, we should have a well deserved summer 2021.
Have a safe 2021!