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Symantec Government Symposium 11 March 2014 at the Renaissance Hotel Washington DC

CTOvision

Chuck McGann , Corporate Information Security Officer, USPS. Adam Sedgewick , Senior Information Technology Advisor, NIST. Timothy Molino , Director, Government Relations, BSA | The Software Alliance. Richard Naylor , Deputy Director for CyberSecurity Operations, Defense Security Service, DOD. – 12:30 p.m.

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The chaotic and cinematic MGM casino hack, explained

Vox

MGM, which owns more than two dozen hotel and casino locations around the world as well as an online sports betting arm, reported on Monday that a “cybersecurity issue” was affecting some of its systems, which it shut down to “protect our systems and data.” Ransomware attacks aren’t unusual these days.

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Insider Threat Case: FBI Busts a Test Engineer

SecureWorld News

Get me in stink [sting] operation with the FBI, talking in a hotel room about trade secrets. And he went on to work for another defense contractor with "Secret" level security clearance. security clearance and a Russian security clearance at the same time. military information from him. Back to our timeline now.

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National Cyber Security Hall of Fame Announces 2015 Inductees

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14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Cyber Security Hall of Fame has released the names of five innovators who will be inducted into the Hall of Fame at its award ceremony on Thursday, October 29 , at the Four Seasons Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. BALTIMORE , Sept.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

Anyone who has anyone in the information security community is usually melting under the hot Nevada sun. Vamosi: I first attended DEF CON in 2000 when it was still at the Alexis Park Hotel, just off the Strip. Actually it's at five or six different hotels, including Caesars Yeah. A lot of times it's software is not free.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Bug Bounty Hunters

ForAllSecure

And once there, down one of the hallways, behind a nondescript hotel room door, there was a whole other level of gambling going on, one that only the elite players got invited to play. Vamosi: Like a lot of us, information security wasn’t necessarily our first line of work. I started in journalism. Hacking away.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Bug Bounty Hunters

ForAllSecure

And once there, down one of the hallways, behind a nondescript hotel room door, there was a whole other level of gambling going on, one that only the elite players got invited to play. Vamosi: Like a lot of us, information security wasn’t necessarily our first line of work. I started in journalism. Hacking away.