This blog was originally posted by me here. __________________________________________________ On October 20th, 2019 the Twitter account @BabakTaghvaee posted that there was a fire at the Abadan Oil Refinery in Iran; notably the account claimed that the fire was a result of a confirmed cyber attack. A video was posted of the fire and the…
On July 5th, 2019 Mike Assante decided it was his time to leave this world and shuffle off this mortal coil. I say decided because as I would learn from Tim Conway, Mike didn’t want to die on July 4th because it would ruin the festivities of the holiday (he was deeply patriotic) and he…
Industrial (ICS/IIoT/OT/variations of “not enterprise IT + physics”) infrastructure has benefited greatly in one form or another in having heterogeneous infrastructure. An electric transmission substation in one part of a single company is different than an electric substation elsewhere even in the same company; not only often in vendor choices but configuration, integration, implementation, and…
I made a number of tweets on this subject but then the voice of Richard Bejtlich entered my head and told me that all twitter threads should be a blog post, and here I am. This blog looks at the cyber attack on Tribune Publishing and the claims that North Korea is responsible as an…
This blog is a continuation of a fantastic discussion with Richard Bejtlich. He responded to a question online, I blogged about it here and then he responded here and in response to another question I posed here. In this blog I’ll reply to his replies. The main point of this blog to me though is…
One of the things that motivates me to write is either being really pissed off or finding someone I really respect and having a different opinion. This blog is about the latter. Richard Bejtlich tweeted (oh the horror) that to him, hunting is just another form of detection. Now his real argument is of course…
Last week it was announced that Dragos, Inc. raised $37M in our Series B financing event. That brings the total amount of money raised for the company to $48.2M since the company was founded in 2016 and marks my third time raising (Seed Round of $1.2M, A Round of $10M, and now the B Round).…
One of my SANS students challenged me recently that I haven’t posted on my blog in awhile; I realized I hadn’t and checked today and found that it’s been almost a year since my last post. So first of all, apologies on the delay. I’ve been busy (Dragos, Inc. has been expanding rapidly and we’re…