Brandon Wales reflects on 20 years of cyber as he leaves CISA
SolarWinds, election security and protecting federal networks were among the highlights, he said in an interview with CyberScoop.
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Biden says ‘shooting war’ could break out with foreign heavyweights over cyberattacks
The saber-rattling comes amid ongoing fallout from hacks that originated in Russia.
Capitol Hill riot crackdown leaves extremists searching for more secure messaging platforms, US intel memo says
The bulletin shows how law enforcement officials are looking to track any efforts by far-right extremists to cloak their communications following the insurrection.
US officials say they’ve cracked Pensacola shooter’s iPhones, blast Apple
The Crypto Wars rage eternal.
Top Secret documents show Cyber Command’s growing pains in its mission against ISIS
Newly released documents show U.S. Cyber Command had its struggles in taking down ISIS infrastructure in 2016.
How the Marine Corps thinks about beating adversaries in cyberspace
Renata Spinks says the Marines want their cybersecurity-focused personnel to think like an adversary.
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U.S. cyber-offensive against ISIS continues, and eyes are now on Afghanistan, general says
“We are trying to illuminate the network, trying to figure out how they’re communicating, what they’re using, where the money might be flowing," Brig. Gen. Len Anderson…
The NSA recognizes it needs to share more nation-state threat data, and faster
The update comes amid longstanding complaints the agency is slow to share meaningful data.
Extortion and alleged ISIS threats: A Saudi embassy learned the hard way about email security
Security researcher Chris Kubecka knew that it might be a tough assignment to catch an intruder on the email system at Saudi Arabia's embassy in the Netherlands.…
Russian hackers used NYC terror attack news to lure targets into loading malware
Security researchers recently discovered a notable spear phishing email campaign that used a peculiar, albeit increasingly popular, intrusion technique hidden inside a message concerning a terrorism attack…