Cyber’s Past, Present, and Future: The Truth is Stranger than Fiction
summary
Panelists trace concrete failures and fixes: a Russian group called Sandworm triggers Ukrainian power outages and a worm called NotPetya $10 billion that spreads globally; an underground exploit market expands into nation‑state arsenals; the SolarWinds intrusion hides in vendors for a SolarWinds 9‑month dwell and touches hundreds of customers including Fortune 400 firms, the Pentagon and DOE; ransomware operations extract ransomware million‑dollar payments and evolve into brokered, multi‑extortion schemes; expect supply‑chain fallout, SBOM pushes and more high‑impact breaches.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:09Starting his career at Forbes
- 3:06Always innovating
- 3:41A lot of interesting personalities
- 5:43Im totally fried
- 7:01Nicoles books
- 8:43Sandworm
- 10:25Cult of the Dead Cow
- 13:12Kingpin
- 14:05Residual Check
- 15:10The Donkey
- 16:28The Process
- 20:14Finding an Agent
- 23:38Negatives of 2020
- 24:22Changes in publishing since the pandemic
- 25:45Information overload
- 27:03Supply chain attacks
- 32:27Predictions for 2021
- 33:56Other Themes
- 35:03Outro
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