Seth Rosenblatt

When the Internet goes down, rendering everything inaccessible from mission-critical business services to mental stability-critical meme generators, is it because of an accident or malicious hackers? In the case of BGP hijacking, it could be either—and sometimes both. Consider the BGP hijacking incident on April Fool’s Day last year, which caused massive Internet service disruptions just as the world was beginning to grapple with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Internet traffic that...

Typos have a long history, by turns serious and silly, going back to the dawn of the printed page. But thanks to the peculiarities of computer technology and the ingenuity of hackers, correctly typing website locations into your browser is no guarantee that they will show you the site you intended to view. When machines make typos even with correct human input, the errors can lead to an unusual form of cyber attack known as bitsquatting. The younger sibling of typosquatting, bitsquatting is...

Clichéd as the concept of a perfect storm is, it also feels more apt than ever to describe this year’s American election—and that’s only taking into consideration the cybersecurity challenges voters face. Since 2016, cybersecurity and election experts have been sounding an ever-louder clarion call that aggressive steps need be taken to ensure that computerized voting machines in the U.S. are secure enough to properly enroll registered voters, record their votes, and accurately count them, as...