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Rachel Kowalski

Rachel Kowalski

Cybersecurity Analyst

Rachel Kowalski is the Cybersecurity Analyst at TrendinTech, where she covers vulnerabilities, ransomware, supply chain attacks, nation-state operations and the security rules shaping organizations in the United States and Europe. Before moving into journalism she worked as a threat intelligence analyst at a security vendor and later reported for CyberScoop and the security desk at Wired, covering the SolarWinds compromise and the ransomware wave that hit hospitals and pipelines. Rachel holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity from the Georgia Institute of Technology and attends Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas each year, where she follows research from the security community. She writes to make risks and countermeasures understandable to people who are not specialists.

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Will Recent UK Election Change Cyber Security in the Nation?

Recently, the cyber infiltration of the National Health Service, or the NHS, in the UK, highlighted the importance of cyber diligence and how a lack of sufficient security...

SEC News 4 min

Bitcoin Regulations Create Issues for Cyber Security Experts

Coinbase, one of the major Bitcoin exchanges in the U.S., has been suspending accounts of cyber security consultants, according to CoinDesk. These consultants, also called “white hat” hackers,...

SEC News 2 min

New Russian Cyber Weapon Can Wipe Out Power Grids (Temporarily)

A new cyber weapon has been created by the Russian government (with a little help from hackers) that could cause havoc with our electric systems if it gets...

SEC News 3 min

Cyber Infiltration into U. S. Election System Goes Further Than Thought Before

New evidence reveals that the 2016 Russian hacks into voter databases and software systems go much further than initially made public. What started in Illinois with cyber attempts...

SEC News 6 min

Breakthrough for Scientists Comes in the Form of Another Gravitational Wave

The third detection of gravitational waves was announced this month by researchers. Another triumph in the world of physics. These ripples in space and time were predicted by...

HW News 4 min

Researchers Find an Enzyme That Feeds Brain Tumors

Cancer tumors, like other living cells, need to consume nutrients and oxygen to sustain themselves. However, as they often live in remote, inaccessible parts of the brain, getting...

HW News 3 min

Does Nuclear Physics Hold the Key to Finally Unfolding the Standard Model?

So far to date, scientists have found that the best way to unfold new secrets about the fundamental Universe is to collide particles with one another with enough...

HW News 4 min

First Stop: the Moon, Second Stop: Mars

As the Mars exploration missions get closer to happening, extensive preparation is going on to ensure the astronauts can cope while they’re up there. One of the key...

HW News 2 min

Stephen Hawking and Colleagues Write Angry Letter Defending Theory

Proving a theory is always difficult, even for the world’s top physicists. In February of this year, three of the world’s top physicists decided to try and disprove...

HW News 2 min

Stephen Hawking Thinks; We have to populate a New Planet Within 100 Years If we want to survive

Last November, professor Stephen Hawking predicted that we’ve got no more than 1,000 years in which to find a new home planet before ours becomes completely uninhabitable. However,...

HW News 2 min

Cassini’s First Flight Through Saturn’s Rings Reveals Shocking Data

The Cassini spacecraft has just completed the first part of its grand finale as it flew through the narrow opening between Saturn and its many rings. The information...

HW News 3 min

Scientists May Have Just Revealed Evidence of the Multiverse

There are many things about the universe that still baffle scientists, and one of those anomalies is the so-called “Cold Spot” that spans 1.8 billion light years across...

HW News 2 min