November 18, 2017

    Whispering Buildings and Things That Listen to Us in the Night

    How important privacy is for building smart cities and embracing the IoT In the 60s cartoon The Jetsons, the family…
    January 2, 2018

    Navigating a Safe Course Through Maritime Cyberattacks

    The open seas have long attracted those who yearned for adventure. The risk of pitting oneself against a vast and…
    November 17, 2022

    Can we afford to keep ignoring Open RAN security?

    I’m skeptical of ‘futurists’. Work closely enough with the development of technology solutions and you’ll know that the only certain…
    November 4, 2019

    The Quantum Computing Threat

    Recently, in the science journal Nature, Google claimed ‘quantum supremacy’ saying that its quantum computer is the first to perform…
    March 31, 2015

    The World of Cyber-Physical Systems & Rising Cyber-Kinetic Risks

    We live in a world in which the way we observe and control it is radically changing. Increasingly, we interact…
    January 11, 2018

    Stuxnet and the Birth of Cyber-Kinetic Weapons

    Stuxnet was the first true cyber-kinetic weapon, designed to cripple the Iranian – and perhaps also the North Korean –…
    March 23, 2019

    5G Security & Privacy Challenges

    Don’t let the “5G” in the title confuse you. This post is not only about the telcos’ core networks, but…
    April 9, 2019

    5G Critical Infrastructure – the Most Critical of All

    Not even 30 years separate us from the end of the Cold War. Yet, we appear to be witnessing the…
    March 20, 2019

    Cyber-Kinetic Security and Privacy Threats in Smart Cities

    More than half of the world’s population lives in cities. The UN estimates that by 2050 that proportion will be…
    August 30, 2023

    Is 5G security being sacrificed at the altar of profit, politics and process?

    Homo sapiens is an incredibly adaptable species, arguably the most adaptable ever. But it is also a forgetful one, quick…
    April 30, 2018

    IEMI – Threat of Intentional Electromagnetic Interference

    As our cities, our transportation, our energy and manufacturing – our everything – increasingly embrace Internet of Things (IoT) and…
    September 27, 2020

    Cybersecurity and Safety in the 5G-Enabled Smart-Everything World

    Neil Harbisson calls himself a cyborg. Without the antenna implanted in his skull, he would not be able to see…
    March 1, 2019

    Importance of Privacy for Smart Cities and IoT

    From The Jetsons to Blade Runner, to Back to the Future, to A.I. to The 5th Element, popular culture has…
    • Cyber-Kinetic Security Cyber-Kinetic Security, IoT Security, OT Security
      Marin IvezicMarch 31, 2015

      The World of Cyber-Physical Systems & Rising Cyber-Kinetic Risks

      We live in a world in which the way we observe and control it is radically changing. Increasingly, we interact with physical objects through the filter of what computational systems embedded in them tell us, and we adjust them based on what those systems relate. We do this on our phones, in our cars, in our homes, in our factories and, increasingly, in our cities. Physical objects are so interconnected that we simply take those…

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