Ep 1277 | 2.25.21
PLA spyware keeps Tibetans under surveillance. Cyber conflict between Ukraine and Russia, some conventionally criminal, other state-directed. US Executive Order addresses supply chain resilience.
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FriarFox is a bad browser extension, and it’s interested in Tibet. Ukraine accuses Russia of a software supply chain compromise (maybe Moscow hired Gamaredon to do the work). Egregor hoods who escaped recent Franco-Ukrainian sweeps are thought responsible for DDoS against Kiev security agencies over the weekend. A look at Babuk, a new ransomware-as-a-service entry. VMware servers are patched. Verizon’s Chris Novak looks at the 2021 threat landscape. Our guest is Andrew Hammond from the International Spy Museum. And a US Executive Order on supply chain security.
By DENEEN L. BROWN | The Washington Post | Published: February 12, 2021 Under the cover of night on June 1, 1863, Harriet Tubman led Union troops from the Sea Islands up the black waters of South Carolina s Combahee River, with a plan to destroy bridges, raid Confederate outposts and rice plantations, cutting off supply lines to Confederate troops. While working as a spy for the Union Army, Tubman had slipped behind Confederate lines, gathering intelligence from enslaved Black people to obtain the coordinates of torpedoes planted along the river by Confederates. That night, with Tubman leading the expedition, the Union gunboats quietly maneuvered, deftly avoiding each torpedo. The boats the John Adams and the Harriet A. Weed held Black soldiers as they moved up the Combahee, overrunning Confederate sentinels in a devastating raid. As the gunboats set anchor, Confederate guards fled. Union soldiers burned bridges, tore up railroads, set blaze to Confederate mansions and rice
New international representation, partnerships and insights position the nation’s capital to welcome overseas visitors
Washington, DC) - Destination DC (DDC) today announced efforts to continue driving overseas visitation to Washington, DC, in partnership with new representation in key markets: China, Australia and India, as well as a continued relationship with its agency of record in the United Kingdom.
In 2017, the nation’s capital welcomed a record 22.8 million total visitors, up 3.6 percent over 2016. Of those visitors, DC saw 20.8 million domestic (up 4.2 percent) and 2 million overseas (up 1.3 percent). Due to revised data from the U.S. Department of Commerce released in late 2018 dating back several years, there have been shifts in some of DC’s top overseas markets.
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(Washington, DC) – For the ninth consecutive year Destination DC (DDC) hosts Date Nights DC, a consumer marketing program promoting easy-to-plan romantic getaways in Washington, DC throughout February. The official marketing organization for the nation’s capital, DDC aims to drive visitation during this traditionally slow travel season by bundling sweetly-priced deals from District hotels, restaurants, attractions and tours with easy-to-follow date itineraries. The 2018 campaign reaches regional consumers in greater Washington, DC; Baltimore, MD and Richmond, VA through print, digital and television ads, social channels and a consumer blitz on Feb. 1, 2018.