Two Interesting Posts…


…on Jim Horning’s Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be blog. The first, on a recent cyber security hearing on the Hill has a nice extended quote from the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and S&T of the House Committee on Homeland Security, complaining about the gutting of the cyber security R&D budget at DHS.
The second is a summary of a paper by Robert Meyer and Michel Cukier on the impact of (perceived) user gender on the cyber attack threat (quick summary: “females” are much more likely to get attacked), which concludes with this great quote from Jim:

If this hostility is anywhere near the typical Internet experience, is it any wonder that computing and IT are increasingly losing the women?”

Two Interesting Posts…