A Legal View of New NIST Quantum-Resistant Algorithms
September 16, 2022by Bryan Cunningham The new NIST candidate algorithms do not address this threat at all. The current standard for stored-data encryption is widely accepted to be a version…
Securing the IoT Ecosystem for Medical Devices
Industry experts discuss ways to increase security in medical devices, followed by a fully-catered networking reception. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti8zU56zIrg UCI's Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute (CPRI), the Donald Bren School of Information…
UCI Takes Fourth Place in First Appearance at Embedded Capture the Flag Competition
This year, for the first time, a team of students from UCI’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) entered the MITRE Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF) competition,…
UCI Researchers Draft Legislation to Incentivize Better Cybersecurity
March 9, 2022by Shani Murray This vision of critical energy infrastructure crippled from a series of cyberattacks might read like a Hollywood screenplay, but it’s actually pulled from the Connecticut Insurance…
Uncle Sam Re: Improving Cyber Hygiene and Increasing Confidence in the Cyber Insurance Ecosystem via Government Backstopping
H. Bryan Cunningham and Shauhin A. Talesh
Published in the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal.
The year 2020 was a wake-up call, for the world and specifically for the cyber insurance ecosystem. The COVID-19 global pandemic reminded insurers, observers, and policymakers that actual or newly plausible attacks—including catastrophic cyberattacks—could pose existential threats to the cyber insurance ecosystem. This article examines this risk through a hypothetical catastrophic cyberattack, interviews with sixty participants across the cyber insurance ecosystem, and recent scholarly work. We find that the risk of a catastrophic cyberattack to the solvency of the global insurance ecosystem is real and that cyber insurers have not, as yet, fulfilled their promise to meaningfully improve our collective cyber hygiene. We examine several key reasons for these findings, including both a lack of data and of stability in the cyber insurance market, problems of attribution in cyberspace, and increasing uncertainty about the enforcement of war exclusions in cyber insurance coverage disputes. We offer a prioritized and interconnected set of proposals to shore up the cyber insurance ecosystem and incentivize needed improvements to our overall cyber hygiene.
(more…)ICS Students Train for Embedded Capture the Flag Competition
A team of students from UCI’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) spent the fall quarter preparing for battle. Computer Science Professor Ian Harris has been training the students, who will participate from January to April 2022 in the MITRE Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF) competition. The team will spend the first two months designing and implementing a secure system, and they will spend the final month analyzing and attacking the other teams’ designs.
(more…)9/11 and Government Changes
Spectrum News 1from Brian Calfano Spectrum News 1: 9/11 and Government Changes from Brian Calfano on Vimeo.
Nirvana members sued for ‘sexual exploitation’ over naked baby album art
Posted August 25, 2021 A man who appeared as a naked baby on the cover of Nirvana’s 1991 “Nevermind” album has filed a lawsuit against the surviving members of the influential…
Does Spencer Elden, the ‘Nevermind’ baby suing Nirvana for alleged child pornography, have a case? Legal experts weigh in
Nirvana's 'Nevermind' album, 1991. (Photo: DGC/Geffen) Lyndsey Parker·Editor in Chief, Yahoo MusicAugust 25, 2021 Nirvana fans could be forgiven for thinking they were reading The Onion this week when the…
Computer Tips From UCI’s Cybersecurity Institute
UCI's new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building, one of the campus sites where the university's CPRI cybersecurity institute has space and facilities Photo credit: Steve Zylius By Kevin CostelloeAugust 23,…
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