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Staying Cyber Aware in a Crisis: Smart Tips for Nonprofit Boards

Board Effect

Threat actors aren’t below the idea of using hot topics, occasions, or popular personalities in their social engineering strategies to commit crimes. The general public is on a constant search for updated information on the issue and the internet is the first place they’re looking to find it.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

Hacking for Defense is a new course at Stanford’s Engineering School in the Spring of 2016. North Korea. Introducing Hacking for Defense – Connecting Silicon Valley Innovation Culture and Mindset to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea.

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Foursquare? A Bakery?

Growthink Blog

Sure, these new breed Internet companies far more often than not flame out than make it but, but ignore them at your peril as they will continue to be the big growth stories of our age. And now Groupon and a host of others that of Twitter. Growing Globally Has Never Been Easier.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. It also requires that they think through compatibility, scalability and deployment long before this gets presented to engineering.

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The Interview, Censorship, Terrorism, Dr. Evil, and Lots of Other Stuff

Feld Thoughts

North Korea says huh, what, wait, it wasn’t us and seeks a joint probe with US on Sony hack (yeah – like that is going to happen.) Let’s start with the cable industry’s darkest fears if the Internet becomes a utility. I wonder if they still use Lycos or Ask Jeeves as their search engine.