Category Archives: 2017 RSA conference

FBI is ‘moving towards’ predictive cybercrime-fighting tools, assistant director says

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The FBI’s cybercrime unit is developing predictive policing capabilities, Assistant Director Scott Smith said during a panel discussion at the 2017 RSA conference. “It’s where we are moving, and hope to go when you talk about predicting as opposed to proactive and reactive. Reactive is consistently where we have been, proactive means we’re really trying […]

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Bush’s federal IT chief hopes for role in Trump administration

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Karen Evans, the former head of federal IT under President George W. Bush, told CyberScoop she hopes to serve in the current administration. “I would be honored if the Trump administration asked me to come in and work on our nation’s problems,” she said in an interview on the sidelines of the RSA security conference Tuesday. She added […]

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How a failed lawsuit trailed Crowdstrike into RSA

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Rumors of a failed lawsuit launched by Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity industry leader, against product-testing firm NSS Labs quickly spread Tuesday among the thousands of attendees at the 2017 RSA conference. During one of the conference’s many industry-promoted parties Monday night, multiple attendees could be overheard talking about the controversy even before media reports began circulating. Other […]

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Report: IoT devices attacked their own network

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A university IT system was brought to a near-standstill by a cyberattack from inside its own firewall, when more than 5,000 connected devices on its internal network — from vending machines to lighting systems — became infected with malware, according to a new report. Verizon’s 2017 Data Breach Digest report, released here at the massive RSA security conference in […]

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