Institute for Assured Autonomy/Information Security Institute Seminar: Nicole Perlroth

Description

Nicole Perlroth, a New York Times cybersecurity reporter and the author of This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends, will give a talk entitled "The Cyber Weapons Arms Race" for the Institute for Assured Autonomy and Information Security Institute.

In This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends, the untold history of the global cyber arms trade and cyberweapons arms race spanning three decades, Perlroth reveals for the first time the classified market's origins (a Russian attack on American embassy), its godfather, brokers, mercenaries, hackers, and its spread to the furthest corners of the globe, from the U.S. to Israel, the Middle East, South America, China, and beyond. She documents attacks across nations and how each new attack builds on the last, as nation states learn and improve upon one another's playbooks, extending into high-profile attacks on multi-national companies and private organizations. Perlroth's reporting spans the period from the 1990s to the 2020 election and its aftermath, when Russia has been engaged in a months-long hack of the U.S. federal government itself, an attack that Perlroth continues to report for the New York Times, building on her book's extraordinary revelations.

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