Meet LulzSec Founder "Sabu" at Suits and Spooks NYC
Hector Monsegur (aka Sabu) was responsible for many of the highest profile hacks conducted by LulzSec and Anonymous between 2009 and 2011. His arrest and subsequent assistance to the FBI helped prevent...
View ArticleSuits and Spooks NYC Targeted By Anonymous For A Protest Operation
Yesterday I announced that Hector Monsegur (aka Sabu), the founder of LulzSec and a long time member of Anonymous who was responsible for hundreds of attacks, will be a speaker at Suits and Spooks NYC...
View ArticleFormer Director, CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence, on Improving...
Carmen Medina is an internationally known visionary and analytic thinker who served 32 years with the Central Intelligence Agency. During her time there, she served as Deputy Director, Intelligence and...
View ArticleAnonymous Operations and Techniques revealed by Former CabinCr3w and...
After the online uproar over my inviting Hector Monsegur (aka Sabu) to speak at Suits and Spooks NYC, I offered to provide a second panel to any Anonymous leaders (meaning individuals who actually...
View ArticleBREAKING: SCANEX Reported Greenpeace Vessel Arctic Sunrise to FSB, Then...
On September 18, 2013 Greenpeace protestors left the Arctic Sunrise on inflatable motor boats and headed towards Gazprom's oil platform, the Prirazlomnaya, to protest drillings' which threaten the...
View ArticleTianjin University Use Case For R&D As A Way To Predict Breaches Targeting IP
On May 19, 2015, The FBI announced that it had charged six individuals (including two Chinese professors) with economic espionage and theft of trade secrets "for their roles in a long-running effort to...
View ArticleOPM Breaches Go Back to 2012 and 2013
The Office of Personnel Management's troubles extend even further back than the current reported 2014-2015 timeline according to a 2013 Office of the Inspector General audit report on OPM's use of...
View ArticleOPM Provides Insight Into Why It Was Hacked
The Office of Personnel Management just released the steps that it has taken to protect over 21 million federal employees whose data was stolen in what may be the worst cyber security breach in...
View ArticleCall For Papers: Suits and Spooks DC Feb 11-12, 2016
The National Press Club Washington DCI'm thrilled to announced that our Suits and Spooks DC event for Feb 11-12, 2016 will be held at the National Press Club. We're going to be doing a lot of things...
View ArticleSuits and Spooks at the Wingtip Club - Oct 6th - By Invitation Only
The Wingtip Club in San Francisco is a renovated 13,000 square foot duplex penthouse decorated in the old Gold Coast style atop the historic 1908 Bank of Italy building in downtown San Francisco. On...
View ArticleWhy Retaliation Against China for the OPM Hack is a Bad Idea
I've written an OpEd on why the White House needs to look at deterrence in cyberspace differently based upon their announcement via David Sanger at the New York Times that they're looking at taking...
View ArticleDSS Reports Foreign Governments Increasing Espionage Activities Against U.S....
The Defense Security Service just issued its 2014 report "Targeting U.S. Technologies: Trend Analysis of Cleared Industry Reporting" (.pdf). DSS's mission is, in part, to secure the nation's...
View ArticleThe Legal Rationale For Killing An Enemy Hacker (or Could You Be The Next...
The Pentagon has confirmed [1] that a British hacker named Junaid Hussain was targeted and killed in a military air strike on August 24, 2015. Pentagon spokesman Air Force Col. Pat Ryder (USCENTCOM)...
View ArticleWhat Will The Cost of Chinese Sanctions Be For U.S. Companies?
According to major media outlets, the U.S. government will soon announce economic sanctions against the Chinese government for its acts of economic espionage; especially cyber espionage that benefits...
View ArticleWin A Free Trip To Suits and Spooks Paris!
For the next 48 hours, we will make ten tickets for Suits and Spooks DC (Feb 11-12, 2016) available for purchase at a huge discount- only $324. Our normal rate for October is $399 and effective Nov 1...
View ArticleHow “Hat-tribution” on China Has Harmed U.S. National Policymaking
Back in the early 2000’s, cybersecurity researchers blamed every financial services attack on Russian or Eastern European hackers and every non-financial services attack on China. Every attack...
View ArticleWho Has The Chinese Government Arrested For Hacking OPM? Possibly No One.
On December 1st, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, together with Chinese State Councilor Guo Shengkun, co-chaired the first U.S.-China...
View ArticleGet An Insider's Perspective On The Commercial Airline Threat Landscape...
This is a unique opportunity to hear Jim Vasatka (Director of Aviation Security at Boeing) discuss the overall cybersecurity threat space as it pertains to commercial aircraft in a NO PRESS, Chatham...
View Article7 Reasons Not To Miss Suits and Spooks DC This Year
SUITS AND SPOOKS | FEB 11-12, 2016 | NATIONAL PRESS CLUB - WASHINGTON, D.C.ONLY 30 SEATS REMAINING!Suits and Spooks DC is Taia Global's limited-attendance cyber security event, now in its 5th year. I...
View ArticleKung Fu Panda 3: A Collaboration Between Dreamworks and China's State Council
Kung Fu Panda 3 opens simultaneously in the U.S. and China on Jan 29th to high hopes by Dreamworks Animation and Oriental Dreamworks, which is a joint venture formed with China Media Capital and...
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