John Quigg

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COVID-19: Help Fleets Of Innovators Make 3-D Printed Face Masks

COVID-19: Help Fleets Of Innovators Make 3-D Printed Face Masks
COVID-19: Help Fleets Of Innovators Make 3-D Printed Face Masks

Next month we’ll celebrate the 80th anniversary of Operation Dynamo, better known as “the Miracle of Dunkirk.” In the course of three days, hundreds of British civilian boats crossed the Channel to save their Army from starvation and the advancing Germans. Why? The Royal Navy did not have enough ships to transport the troops nor the…

WannaCry Worm Highlights Federal & Industry Failures

WannaCry Worm Highlights Federal & Industry Failures
WannaCry Worm Highlights Federal & Industry Failures

The WannaCry worm proves that our collective response to cyber threat continues to churn ineffectively in the same futile rut while threats multiply and grow increasingly serious by the day. Channeling Hobbes, government must assume the role of the Leviathan, establishing a monopoly on cyber violence, in this nascent global commons. We must get behind a…

America Must Decide How To Act After Russian Election Hacks

America Must Decide How To Act After Russian Election Hacks
America Must Decide How To Act After Russian Election Hacks

What are we going to do about the Russian hacks that have wrought havoc across the entire political spectrum and are rapidly shifting from being an embarrassment to, possibly, being strategically crippling? The body count of ruined careers aside, sizeable harm is being done to our political process and a likely intelligence loss as foreign actors rummage…

Ukraine Power Grid Attack Is Wake Up Call; US Not Ready

Ukraine Power Grid Attack Is Wake Up Call; US Not Ready
Ukraine Power Grid Attack Is Wake Up Call; US Not Ready

A blizzard slams the East Coast and the lights go out. Then they stay off. Is it an attack? How do we figure out who’s behind it? What do we do in retaliation? These are all questions that need answering since what looks like the first successful cyber attack on an entire nation’s power grid. Ukraine says that…

Strike Back At Chinese For OPM Hack; Build A Cyber Strategy

Strike Back At Chinese For OPM Hack; Build A Cyber Strategy
Strike Back At Chinese For OPM Hack; Build A Cyber Strategy

Chinese government-backed hackers continue to penetrate and steal information from  large US personnel data repositories. Our government gnashes its teeth and may issue a statement. These attacks are not about grabbing credit cards or frequent flyer miles, creating mayhem with political messaging, or pure mischief. These infiltrations by the Chinese are all about an industrial scale preparation…

Chinese Stole Anthem Data For HUMINT; Should Raise US ‘Hackles’

Chinese Stole Anthem Data For HUMINT; Should Raise US ‘Hackles’
Chinese Stole Anthem Data For HUMINT; Should Raise US ‘Hackles’

The Chinese just walked out of Anthem’s enormous data warehouse (though without encrypting their data it might as well have been a troop of Girl Scouts) with personal data on a quarter of America’s population. Assuming that the pro forma outrage and denial is a confirmation of culpability, the People’s Liberation Army and its various subsidiaries will…