New Hawaii State CISO, Vincent Hoang
Vincent Hoang recently stepped into the role of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at the Hawaii State Office of Enterprise Technology Services on December 1, 2016. Hoang is Hawaii’s first ...
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Obama Pardons Gen. Cartwright, Commutes Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
During his last week in presidential office, Barack Obama pardoned Gen. James Cartwright and granted clemency to Chelsea Manning, two high-profile figures involved leaking classified U.S. information ...
Weekly Executive Summary for Week of January 20, 2017
Hacking Confirmed as Cause of Ukraine Power Plant Outage On the night of December 17, 2016, Ukraine’s national power company Ukrenergo experienced a power outage that lasted for about an hour in ...
Windows Trojan Targets Russian Crane Manufacturers
Source: http://www.securityweek.com/new-trojan-used-spy-russian-crane-manufacturers, http://news.drweb.com/news/?i=10306&lng=en(SecurityWeek, Doctor Web) A Windows Trojan dubbed BackDoor.Crane ...
OAuth 2.0 Protocol Exposes 1 Billion Mobile Applications To Account Hacking
Source: https://threatpost.com/oauth-2-0-hack-exposes-1-billion-mobile-apps-to-account-hijacking/121889/, http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/53081/hacking/oauth-2-0-attack.html (SecurityWeek, ...
The U.S. Army is Launching Its First Bug Bounty Program
Source: http://www.securityweek.com/us-army-launch-first-bug-bounty-program, https://threatpost.com/army-bug-bounty-building-new-relationships-with-hackers/121924/ (SecurityWeek, ...
DDoS Attacks on DYN Take Down Tech Giants: Github, Twitter, Netflix, and More
Source: John McAfee: North Korea behind Dyn DDoS assault, larger attacks on the way, DYN CONFIRMS DDOS ATTACK AFFECTING TWITTER, GITHUB, MANY OTHERS (TECHSPOT, Threatpost) On Friday October 21, ...
Retired Four Star U.S. General Charged With Lying in Iran Cyber Attack Examination
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/us/marine-general-james-cartwright-leak-fbi.html?_r=2, http://www.securityweek.com/retired-us-general-charged-lying-iran-cyber-attack-probe Prosecutors ...