Posts for category: Regional News

Shakacon 2018 Highlights

The Shakacon X IT Security Conference was held at the Prince Waikiki on July 11-12, 2018. Stealth Mango & Tangelo: Selling your fruits to state actors Andrew Blaich and Michael Flossman, ...

Global Weekly Executive Summary, 21 MAY 2018

Tennessee County Elections Targeted by Cyberattacks A Tennessee county elections website was the target of a cyberattack that crashed the site on primary election night while a network intrusion ...

Global Weekly Executive Summary, 22 June 2018

A cyberattack on a US Navy contractor resulted in the theft of sensitive military plans in this latest incident of Chinese industrial espionage targeting military contractors. Government hackers ...

Global Weekly Executive Summary, 13 April 2018

State of Hawaii Targeted in Iranian Data Theft The U.S. Department of Justice’s recent indictment of nine Iranians accused of conducting cyberattacks contained a list of targeted organizations ...

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Infosheet

In 2014, London-based data analytics and political profiling firm Cambridge Analytica gained access to the personal data of over 50 million Facebook users and used that information to match profiles ...

Global Weekly Executive Summary, 20 March 2018

DHS and FBI Alert Warns of Russian Government Cyberattacks Targeting Critical Infrastructure On Thursday, March 15, 2018, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of ...

Global Weekly Executive Summary, 09 FEB 2017

Spearphising the Olympics A recent report by security software company McAfee reveals that unknown hackers launched a spearphishing campaign targeting organizations preparing for the 2018 Winter ...

of Hawaii Data Breach

TheUniversity of Hawaii system suffered a data breach as the result of a spear phishing campaign that exposed personal information of up to 2,400 faculty, staff, students, and student applicants. The ...

Trouble in Paradise: Hawaii Emergency Mismanagement

[caption id="attachment_6897" align="alignleft" width="225"] Source: Wired[/caption] On Saturday January 13, 2018, people in the Hawaiian islands found themselves in the midst of a large-scale ...

Hawaii’s False Missile Alert Headlines

Headlines and Links related to Hawaii’s False Missile Alert CNET, Hawaii missile alert on smartphones was false alarm Reuters, Tears and panic as false missile alert unnerves Hawaii The ...