donate from your laptop, tablet or phone, go to cnnheros.com. your donation in any amount will help them help others. thanks. of course all of our top ten cnn heros will be honored at cnn hero the all-star tribute hosted by anderson cooper and kelly rippa sunday, december 11th. make sure you tune in. overnight clarence gilyard jr. passed away. hey, man, we could have had him. hey, we could have had him, man. i will fire when i am good and ready. you got that? so, this is how you would know gilyard. he was known for his role as a naval flight officer in top gun and as a computer hacker in die hard. he appeared in tv series walker texas ranger alongside chuck norris. his death announced on monday in statement from the university of nevada las vegas where he had
this is no ordinary computer hacker we re talking about, is it? no, that s the issue, that s the really big issue. there are all sorts of mudslinging going on and they think he is a disgruntled former employee who got fired for cause, but if you look at the people know information security they know who it he is, his hacker name, but one. he testified to congress under his pseudonym along with others and a hacking group called the loft, fronting congress to say how terrible internet security was, saying that any one of them could take down the inside and half an hour if they really worked at it. so he is responsible for speaking truth to power, as they say. and he has had a top secret clearance in the united states government. he founded or co founded one of the first boutiques were hackers like
actually consists of? there is a few. actually consists of? there is a few- the actually consists of? there is a few. the most actually consists of? there is a few. the most obvious - actually consists of? there is a few. the most obvious one i actually consists of? there is l a few. the most obvious one is that he believes that there are agents of foreign powers working inside twitter for more than one country. he has some basis for thinking that. even though it before he took over as head of security there is a case that came to conclusion in the san francisco court where somebody was convicted after being accused of working for the saudis and is slipping information about dissidents in saudi arabia using twitter. so there is that. he also says there is that. he also says there is that. he also says there is an agent of the indian government inside twitter and there are probably more than that. so there is that sort of national security issue, but also if the security is as terri
and we can see it was uploaded or downloaded or tried to be fixed and more readable. the people who were getting this really were far outside of any legal effort. these were folks who were podcasters, many types of election conspiracy theoies at the time. a former pro surfer, turned conspiracy theorist, a former self-described pickup artist and sduction and dating coach, who is also a computer hacker at times. all of these people were granted access to ghinon voting systems and leaving open the question now of could this be used in a way going forward to sabotage or manipulate elections in the future. that s a key question moving forward. it s also a legal question. it just seems like the idea that
The Quebec government is now taking steps to improve the security of government assets. In A May 5, 2022 press release, the provincial government officially announced the launch of the Bug Bounty Program, which is expected to enhance the security of government IT assets.through the use of online hackers. That's right! The government is giving "information security researchers who specialise in detecting vulnerabilities access, under government control, to certain assets to find flaws that could compromise the security of Quebecers' data," the press release stated.