Cybercrime and Prevention: Colonel Blotto in Social Engineering

Cybercriminals increasingly target the human factor rather than continuously advancing technological defense mechanisms. Consequently, institutions that allocate substantial resources to strengthening their cybersecurity infrastructure may remain vulnerable if a deceived employee voluntarily...

Ex-CIA Analyst Sentenced to 37 Months for Leaking Top Secret National Defense Documents

A former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA analyst has been sentenced to little more than three years in prison for unlawfully retaining and transmitting top secret National Defense Information NDI to people who were not entitled to receive them and for attempting to cover up the malicious...

Ex-CIA Analyst Pleads Guilty to Sharing Top-Secret Data with Unauthorized Parties

A former analyst working for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA pleaded guilty to transmitting top secret National Defense Information NDI to individuals who did not have the necessary authorization to receive it and attempted to cover up the activity. Asif William Rahman, 34, of Vienna, wa...

Ex-NSA Employee Sentenced to 22 Years for Trying to Sell U.S. Secrets to Russia

A former employee of the U.S. National Security Agency NSA has been sentenced to nearly 22 years 262 months in prison for attempting to transfer classified documents to Russia. "This sentence should serve as a stark warning to all those entrusted with protecting national defense information that...

US Spies Are Buying Americans' Private Data. Congress Has a Chance to Stop It

The National Defense Authorization Act may include new language forbidding government entities from buying Americans' search histories, location data, and more...

New CISA Director Confirmed, W.H. Gains Cyber-Director

The U.S. has made a key move to shore up its cybersecurity strategy, with the confirmation of Jen Easterly as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday. Easterly, a former official at the National Security Agency from 2011 to 2013 and two-time Bronze Star...

December 19, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “NHL” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! December 19, 2017 - Headlines WannaCry cyberattack: White House adviser says...

Air Force Hopes To Attract Hackers With Bug Bounty Program

On Wednesday, the United States Air Force became the latest division of the U.S. Armed Forces to announce a public-facing bug bounty program. The program, Hack the Air Force, invites vetted white hat security experts to hack key public-facing Air Force websites. The Air Force follows in the...

Comment Crew Exposé a New Level of China Attack Attribution

China has been blamed for cyberattacks on every major industrial base in the United States—and even in some corners for the Super Bowl blackout. But most of it has been rampant speculation coupled with the lacing together of a number of loose ends. Examples of the kind of direct attribution to th...

Chinese Hackers hit New York Times and Wall Street Journal

The New York Times says Chinese hackers probably working for the military or Chinese government have carried out sustained attacks on its computer systems, breaking in and stealing the passwords of high-profile reporters and other staff members. For the last four months, Chinese hackers have...

Former Pentagon Analyst Warns China Has Back Doors To Global Telcos

The Chinese Government has “pervasive access” to 80 percent of the world’s communications even military-grade encryption no longer provides sufficient protection to sensitive data, a former Pentagon analyst warns. Speaking on the Cyber Jungle podcast with host Ira Victor, former Pentagon analyst ...

Library of Congress Owned

There are a number of US government branches, offices, and agencies that, by their very nature, have giant targets painted on their computer networks. America’s national library would not seem to be among that lot, but alas, not even the Library of Congress could escape the ire of hackers this...

Students will analysis cyber security skills vs. peers !

Flour Bluff Aerial Academy inferior Alex Blanke never accepted the accoutrement to abolish bacilli from his computer. But he capital to learn. Now he is on a mission to chase and abort computer bacilli and added aegis threats. He and green Sierra Alves represent Flour Bluff in a civic aerial...

Top 5 best criminal computer hackers of all time

These hackers are the ones that you've seen in shackles arrested for cybercrimes when they were just getting out of puberty. Some have done it for financial gain others just for fun. 1. Kevin Mitnick. Mitnick is perhaps synonymous with Hacker. The Department of Justice still refers to him as "the...