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What is the path forward for cybersecurity?

In light of all of the recent failures in cybersecurity, it is natural to ask the question, “What is the path forward now?” There is a lot…

2 min readMar 8, 2021

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What is the path forward for cybersecurity?

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Sean Oesch

Espionage via Microsoft Exchange Server Could Eclipse SolarWinds Intrusion

It’s been reported that over 30K organizations were compromised by an “unusually aggressive Chinese cyber espionage unit that’s focused on…

2 min readMar 5, 2021

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Espionage via Microsoft Exchange Server Could Eclipse SolarWinds Intrusion

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Sean Oesch

Anonymous Code Reviews — A Trial at Google

Google ran a study with 300 software engineers and 5217 code reviews to see if anonymous code reviews could work. The paper is linked…

2 min readMar 3, 2021

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Anonymous Code Reviews — A Trial at Google

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Sean Oesch

NVIDIA DoS Own GPU to Prevent Cryptomining

What do you do when the price of your Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) is being artificially inflated by cryptominers? You…

2 min readFeb 22, 2021

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NVIDIA DoS Own GPU to Prevent Cryptomining

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Sean Oesch

Understanding The Security Dilemma — How a Focus on Security can Lead to Conflict

The security dilemma explains why countries with fundamentally compatible goals still end up in tension with one another. I have linked…

2 min readFeb 7, 2021

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Understanding The Security Dilemma — How a Focus on Security can Lead to Conflict

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Sean Oesch

How COVID Broke AI

Ok, not exactly. But COVID did significantly impact some AI based applications. For example, models used to detect fraud in air travel…

2 min readJan 30, 2021

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How COVID Broke AI

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Sean Oesch

Simple Script to Pay Bonuses in Bulk on Amazon Mechanical Turk

I recently needed to pay a bonus to a large number of workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Unfortunately, they do not support this…

1 min readJan 30, 2021

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Simple Script to Pay Bonuses in Bulk on Amazon Mechanical Turk

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Sean Oesch

Social Engineering Campaign Targets Security Researchers

Humans are the weakest link in security. Security researchers know this — yet they also are human. And a new attack, attributed to…

1 min readJan 26, 2021

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Social Engineering Campaign Targets Security Researchers

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Sean Oesch

Sean Oesch

Reflections on cybersecurity research & news, academia, and software engineering. Cybersecurity Researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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