Nicholas Weaver is a senior staff researcher focusing on computer security at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, and a lecturer in the Computer Science department at the University of California at Berkeley. All opinions are his own.
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True or not, Bloomberg’s recent stories about Chinese supply-chain attacks should sound the alarm for the government to shore up its procurement policies.
Bloomberg reports that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army has quietly been corrupting a key computer chip. The technical implications are frightening.
The reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration currently pending in Congress would provide federal authorities with the capability to intercept and disable attacks from small drones.
If this country’s government has engaged in supply-chain attacks, others are likely to do the same.
There might be some merit to the president’s change of heart on ZTE. But the manner in which the decision was reached is disturbing.
A newly discovered vulnerability known as CHIMERA could pose a potentially serious national security concern.
Why Russian efforts to sow chaos are likely to target voter rolls.