May 21, 2021
When the DarkSide hacking group attacked the Colonial Pipeline, they may have gotten a bit more than they bargained for. Colonial has acknowledged paying $4.4 million in ransom in order to bring their systems back online as quickly as possible. It was a decision they had to make quickly, but had to consider a...
Mar 18, 2021
“I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true”
-- Lady Gaga
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
In this week’s Very...
Mar 8, 2021
“I would like to see people, the public and the press and other athletes in general just realise and respect women for who we are, what we are and what we do… I’ve been working at this since I was three years old… Basically my whole life I’ve been doing this and I haven’t had a life and I don’t think I...
Mar 1, 2021
I believe that we should be teaching our kids, students and employees when and how to lie
-- Maurice Schweitzer; professor, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but
The truth in masquerade.
-- Lord Byron; Don Juan, Canto 11
This week, Matt Stephenson welcomes...
Feb 24, 2021
We face cyber threats from state-sponsored hackers, hackers for hire, global cyber syndicates, and terrorists. They seek our state secrets, our trade secrets, our technology, and our ideas - things of incredible value to all of us. They seek to strike our critical infrastructure and to harm our economy.
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