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CyberWire – in the first incident of its kind, an officer of the Chinese intelligence service, the Ministry of State Security (MSS), is in US custody facing hacking charges. Yanjun Xu, a Deputy Division Director in MSS’s Jiangsu State Security Department, Sixth Bureau, was apprehended by Belgian authorities in April and extradited to the US on Tuesday.
Security firm names N.J. man to lead East Coast team
ROI-NJ – A Seattle-based security services company has named a New Jersey man as its East Coast director, heading up its software and other services in the region. IOActive Inc. said Tom Brennan brings more than 20 years of software security expertise to the job, including serving as chairman of the Americas board for CREST International, a nonprofit certification and accreditation organization. He will be based in Rockaway.
Cybersecurity Future Trends: Why More Bots Means More Jobs
Security Intelligence – As the technological world hurls into the 2020s and cybersecurity future trends become reality, many experts expect the industry to evolve rapidly. Among the paradigm shifts still to come from digital innovation, data protection is bound to change and expand beyond the capabilities of today’s most common tools.
Inner Circle Podcast Episode 014 – John Sawyer Discusses the Value of Red Team Assessments
Techspective – My guest for this episode of the Inner Circle podcast is John Sawyer, Associate Director of Services at IOActive. Are you secure? Sure, you’ve invested a lot of time, money and effort to security and you’ve implemented firewalls, spam filters, antimalware solutions, intrusion detection and other security tools, and you’ve developed and implemented security policies–but are you sure they’re effective? Are you confident that you can detect or block an attack right now?
Port of San Diego hit by ransomware cyber-attack
Smart Cities World – The Port of San Diego was hit by a ransomware cyber-attack last week and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are now investigating. The incident was first reported on September 25, 2018. The Port says the ransomware attack has disrupted the agency’s IT systems but that the situation is “mainly an administrative issue”. Normal Port operations are continuing as usual.
IOActive Becomes a Founding Provider for New Framework from Open Compute Project Foundation to Improve Data Center and Cloud Security Posture