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"Richard Forno, Assistant Director of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity and Director of the Cybersecurity Graduate Program at UMBC, however, sees it as evidence of the Trump administration's failure to take security seriously — something that Sanders' take on the situation ignores completely. Read more about Omarosa's White House Recordings Are Raising Security Concerns — Experts Break It Down
"In the last week, Facebook disclosed a campaign by foreign interests – likely from Russia -- to disrupt the 2018 midterm elections and announced dramatic spending increases on improvements to data privacy and security. Read more about Facebook's Transparency Is a Good Start, but Its Market Power Could Make It a Major Advocate for Privacy and Cybersecurity Worldwide
"Scott Shackelford is chair of Indiana University’s Cybersecurity Program. He says the conversation about election security has to go beyond equipment.
“If you really wanted to attack Indiana’s voting integrity, you wouldn’t have to just go after the voting machines,” he says. “You could go after the websites where people go to figure out where polling places are, you could snarl traffic, you could shut down the power grid in worst case scenario.”" Read more about State, Local Governments Taking Steps To Improve Election Security
"“There's nothing preventing an Apple employee from doing the exact same thing in a world where there's mandatory key escrow for exceptional access to smartphones,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. “Once the deed is done by an insider, then what was supposed to be a tool only for the ‘good guys’ is out there for the ‘bad guys’ as well.”" Read more about The Cybersecurity 202: Spyware theft case offers a cautionary tale for encryption debate
"Working out those details is important, because many companies that collect personal data continue making "fundamental mistakes" in how they protect it, said Richard Forno, assistant director of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity.
"In 2018, we should not be seeing these types of incidents and breaches," he said. Read more about Having more control over your data doesn't mean it's safe
"“The federal government is the largest consumer of commercial wireless services and is susceptible to the same cybersecurity risks in our communications infrastructure,” Jonathan Mayer, a computer science professor at Princeton University, told the panel.
“A foreign intelligence service could easily use cell-site simulators to collect highly confidential information about government operations, deliberations and personnel movements,” Mayer added." Read more about Foreign spying comes under new scrutiny from lawmakers
"University of Maryland, Baltimore County's cybersecurity graduate program director Richard Forno echoed Williams' analysis and said even a simple Google search could cull results that warned about our dire state of federal cybersecurity decades earlier.
"Government reports like this just literally say the same thing year after year: 'here are a couple of recommendations on how we can fix things' and a year goes by, and it says the exact same thing," Forno said. Read more about White House says its federal agencies can’t keep track of their own data
"“It would be hard to prove that records haven’t been made,” said Scott Shackelford, a cybersecurity expert and associate professor of business law and ethics at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.
SamSam works by gaining access to a computer system and encrypting all of the data so that it is useless unless a ransom is paid. Once that happens — generally with Bitcoin or some other type of cryptocurrency — thieves provide a key to unlock the data.
"Riana Pfefferkorn, cryptography fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, said the enforcement action could "light a fire" under other public companies to disclose their own cybersecurity incidents, though the case may not help determine where to set the bar for reporting. Read more about SEC sounds cyber 'wake-up call' to public companies
"Even Hutchins’s defenders say if he’s guilty some punishment is in order, but his prosecution also sends a mixed message. Hutchins had been a model of public-private cooperation at a time when the government was having difficulty recruiting cybersecurity talent. (James Comey irritated the community in 2014 when he said the FBI struggled to hire people because “some of those kids want to smoke weed on the way to the interview.”) Some security researchers said they would stop sharing information with the government in protest. Read more about Gray Hat
