Compliance, regulation, policy and security governance (NIST, CMMC, GDPR, HIPAA).
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at the Catalyst Summit in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, November 18, 2026. I’m speaking at QT Qonference 2026 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Thursday, November 19,...
Climate change is the issue . As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.
This essay is adapted from a keynote speech delivered at the DEF CON 34 conference in Las Vegas on August 7, 2026. The essay originally appeared in CyberScoop . I want to talk about AI hacking. There are three aspects: people hacking AI systems, people...
News story: “ Scientists discover a bizarre Jurassic ‘squid’ unlike anything ever seen .” Scientists have identified the “fattest” belemnite ever discovered, a bizarre, barrel-shaped squid relative that lived in Wyoming’s ancient seas 160 million years...
This is fascinating : The video describes a technique that can reveal where an otherwise unidentifiable recording was made by analyzing its audio for the faint sounds of passing aircraft. The technique is both fascinating and frightening. It works by...
In both a 2021 essay and my 2022 book, A Hacker’s Mind , I talk about AIs finding vulnerabilities and exploits—hacking—the legal system. Here’s some demonstrations of this from Germany: Legal systems encode the foundations of social order in natural...