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In a world dominated by fraudulent propositions it should be noted that Jabber and XMPP remain the primary secure communication channel for a large portion of cybercrime-friendly propositions that I come across to on a daily basis largely relying on Of… Continue reading Profiling a Currently Active Portfolio of High-Profile Cybercriminal Jabber and XMPP Accounts
The National Security Agency is creating a cybersecurity directorate to better protect the country against cyberthreats from foreign adversaries, an NSA spokesperson told CyberScoop. Anne Neuberger will be the intelligence agency’s first director for cybersecurity, a decision NSA Director Gen. Paul Nakasone is expected to make public Tuesday in New York City at the International Conference on Cyber Security. The directorate is slated to be operational Oct. 1 of this year, the spokesperson said. The move is intended to allow the NSA — which is part of the U.S. military — to better provide information gleaned from signals intelligence to agencies and the private sector in order to protect national critical infrastructure, an NSA spokesperson said. “It’s a major organization that unifies our foreign intelligence and our cyberdefense mission, and it’s charged with preventing and eradicating threats to national security systems and the defense industrial base,” the official told CyberScoop. Civilian agencies — such as the Department of […]
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A provocative new study is suggesting a gene variant strongly associated with increased Alzheimer’s risk in later life could affect cognitive health in childhood. The research reveals those carrying the gene score slightly lower on IQ tests in childhood, implying cognitive decline is apparent at a younger age than ever previously realized.
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Defense secretary nominee Mark Esper told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that although there is still work to be done, he is confident in the security of the 2020 presidential elections. “We are more and more confident that the 2020 elections will be unfettered,” Esper said. “But we always will have a lot of work to do because people will always want to influence our elections.” The 2020 elections remain a target of state and non-state cyber actors, a senior intelligence official told reporters last month in a briefing. Esper, who has been serving as secretary of the U.S. Army since 2017, highlighted U.S. Cyber Command’s capabilities while discussing election security. Efforts made in the buildup to the 2018 midterm elections left the U.S. with an improved posture than years prior, he said. Some of the command’s efforts to defend the midterm elections in 2018 included deploying soldiers to […]
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Reuters has a long article on the Chinese government APT attack called Cloud Hopper. It was much bigger than originally reported. The hacking campaign, known as "Cloud Hopper," was the subject of a U.S. indictment in December that accused two C… Continue reading Details of the Cloud Hopper Attacks
Reuters has a long article on the Chinese government APT attack called Cloud Hopper. It was much bigger than originally reported. The hacking campaign, known as "Cloud Hopper," was the subject of a U.S. indictment in December that accused two Chinese nationals of identity theft and fraud. Prosecutors described an elaborate operation that victimized multiple Western companies but stopped short… Continue reading Details of the Cloud Hopper Attacks
Recently I’ve heard Edward Snowden talk about his working at the NSA in Hawaii as being "under a pineapple field." CBS News recently ran a segment on that NSA listening post on Oahu. Not a whole lot of actual information. "We’re in office building, in a pineapple field, on Oahu…." And part of it is underground — we see a… Continue reading NSA Hawaii
The International Spy Museum has reopened in Washington, DC…. Continue reading International Spy Museum Reopens
Mighty Fine Buckeyes, Folks. Mighty Fine.
Astounding flaws, reported by both Symantec and Ars Technica… What happended to OpSec? As importantly: The true ramifications for our country are yet unknown… Unless of course, this and other ‘leaks’ of th… Continue reading Buckeye’d
This report is made possible by customers who opted to share their Bromium-isolated threat data with Bromium, which our experts compiled into a Threat Insights Report Bromium Threat Insights Report is designed to share intelligence about the most notab… Continue reading Introducing the Bromium Threat Insights Report