cybersecurity
14 articlesCracking a 25-Year-Old Password with Claude Code
While cleaning up old files, I found a password-protected Word document from 1999. I had no memory of the password. Claude Code and I cracked it together.
Building ownwords: A Synthesis Coding Case Study
What separates synthesis coding from vibe coding isn''t the tools — it''s the decisions. This technical case study walks through the architectural choices,...
Synthesis Coding with Claude Code: Technical Implementation and Workflows
A hands-on guide to practicing synthesis coding (a.k.a. synthesis engineering) with concrete examples, real workflows, and lessons from production systems ...
The Iron Man Suit for Your Brain: Why AI’s Real Threat Isn’t What You Think
AI's real threat is not job loss or conscious superintelligence. It is humans using AI as a cognitive amplifier for destruction, well before AI becomes sentient
Why Data Breaches Don’t Hurt Stock Prices (Harvard Business Review)
Rajiv Pant and Elena Kvochko co-authored a Harvard Business Review article examining why data breaches have minimal long-term impact on stock prices.
Cyber Resilience Towards the Quantification of Cyber Security Threats
The World Economic Forum developed a cyber value-at-risk framework to help organizations quantify cybersecurity threats and calculate their potential impact.
9 Reasons Why News Media Web Sites Should Consider Moving to HTTPS in 2015
Nine reasons why news media websites should adopt HTTPS, co-authored with cybersecurity experts and published on The New York Times Open Blog.
Why investors should care about cyber security breaches
Why investors should care about cybersecurity breaches, co-authored with Elena Kvochko and published on the World Economic Forum website.
AppSec USA: Security & Journalism Panel
Rajiv Pant spoke at AppSec USA 2014 on how cybersecurity issues affect newsrooms and best practices for protecting journalism infrastructure.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2014
Rajiv Pant spoke at the 2014 World Economic Forum Summer Davos in Tianjin on reinventing media, cyber resilience, and cognitive science in leadership.
What I Learned During the Hacking Attacks of August 28, 2013
Lessons from the 2013 NYT domain hijacking on crisis leadership, human collaboration during emergencies, and technical disaster recovery with backup domains.
Columbia University’s Journalism School’s Spring Journalism and Technology Breakfast Event
Rajiv Pant spoke on cybersecurity in the newsroom at Columbia University's Journalism School alongside RSA Security CTO Sam Curry, hosted by the AP.
Why I’m not a fan of fingerprint scanners for computer security
Why fingerprint scanners alone provide a false sense of security for laptops and devices, with scenarios showing how they can be easily defeated.
Finding a Security Hole in Microsoft Exchange
Discovering a password caching vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 where old passwords remained valid after changes, and the broader flaw it revealed