What kind of security awareness program do you have?
SANS has just issued their 2017 Security Awareness Report. In it, they identified five levels of security awareness programs in organizations. Which level is your organization at? Non-Existent: A program doesn’t exist. Employees have no idea that they are a target, that their actions have a direct impact to the security of the organization, don’t know […]
Seven People Charged With Conspiring to Steal Trade Secrets For Benefit of Chinese Manufacturing Company
(DOJ News Release, 24 May 2017) WASHINGTON – A criminal complaint was unsealed today charging seven individuals with conspiring to steal trade secrets from a business in the U.S. on behalf of a company in China that was engaged in manufacturing a high-performance, naval-grade product for military and civilian uses. On May 23, 2017, two defendants […]
Defense engineer pleads guilty after trying to forge ‘The Americans’-type pact with phony Russian spy
(Los Angeles Times) It t looked easy enough on the FX television series “The Americans,” in which a pair of married Russian spies, posing as U.S. citizens, enlist the aid of Americans to steal national intelligence secrets. It’s not so simple in real life, however. That’s what a defense contracting engineer learned the hard way […]
Hackers Hide Cyberattacks in Social Media Posts
(New York Times) . . . While corporations and government agencies around the world are training their staff to think twice before opening anything sent by email, hackers have already moved on to a new kind of attack, targeting social media accounts, where people are more likely to be trusting. Pentagon officials are increasingly worried that […]
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