Cybersecurity, Cyber Threats, and Geopolitics

Since January 2020, a proliferation of malware and variants has been targeting the bioeconomy.  The malware is delivered by a popular ‘loader’ application called SmokeLoader, which is designed to affect both Windows machines and servers.  Tardigrade is a variant of the SmokeLoader malware loader family and targets Windows platforms.  It is a mechanism used to download other viruses onto infected machines, but it also has ‘virus-like’ properties that can be very damaging to an

Since the notion of artificial intelligence (AI) emerged in the 1950s, it has been a staple of pop culture. While there are countless good news scenarios of AI's potential positive impact on our world, many rational people saw it as a Pandora's Box. The sci-fi world is replete with stories of AI underpinned masses running amok and eviscerating humankind. Be it a formidable army of cyborg warriors that overwhelms us or an innocuous, uncountable cluster of smart bots that event

Any warfighter can tell you that when engaged in combat, every second matters.  It is no different in cyberspace.  At the speed of cyber, every nanosecond  matters.  Make no mistake, just as sure as we've been at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, we're also fighting daily in cyberspace. Even more challenging, this war is being waged on all fronts simultaneously.  Ironically, even as man wages conventional war, we recognize the need for governance and rules to protect the people th