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Larry Rendell Brock of Texas and Eric Gavelek Munchel of Tennessee were federally charged after being pictured carrying zip tie-like restraints into the Capitol building during last week s riot, officials said.
The US Attorney s Office for the District of Columbia said in a statement that they were each charged with ne count of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and one count of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
Brock was arrested in Texas and Munchel was arrested in Tennessee on Sunday.
Two pro-Trump rioters who were seen carrying zip tie-style restraints while storming the US Capitol building last week have been charged with federal crimes.
Tech giants are giving China a vital edge in espionage
Chinese company Baidu launches on the NASDAQ in New York in 2005. Some 15 years later, questions are being asked about its links with the Chinese Communist Party. Â
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In 2017, as US President Donald Trump began his trade war with China, another battle raged behind the scenes. The simmering, decade-long conflict over data between Chinese and US intelligence agencies was heating up, driven both by the ambitions of an increasingly confident Beijing and by the conviction of key players in the new administration in Washington that China was presenting an economic, political, and national security challenge on a scale the United States had not faced for decades â if ever.
This is the reality for so many IT and security teams that are exhausted from responding to threats that have already happened and chasing down the pile of false positives clogging their queue. Most cybersecurity vendors boast about protection, but what they really mean is their appliance or software can detect something and feed a security information and event management system. All that does is put more pressure on IT to set the stage and defend against what s next, so long as it looks exactly like what came before. In today s increasingly digital world, that s just not good enough.
Indeed, this type of operation has, unfortunately, made massive and damaging vulnerabilities the norm. Companies have lost millions as a result, with the average breach costing nearly $4 million in 2019. Those costs also pile up over time as the trust of once-loyal consumers evaporates when troves of personal data are compromised. Yet many businesses simply aren t aware that the prevailing posture of
FireEye Breach Fallout Yet to Be Felt
Aftermath of the FireEye breach by Russia s foreign service agency raises concerns over what the attackers could do next - and how to defend against it.
FireEye s revelation earlier this week that it had been infiltrated by a nation-state hacking operation that stole its red-team hacking tools served as a chilling reminder to the security industry that no one is impermeable to an attack not even a major incident response company more accustomed to probing and cleaning up the breaches of other high-profile organizations.
Several reports and sources say Russia s SVR foreign service agency, aka APT 29 or Cozy Bear, was the perpetrator. There are still plenty of unknowns about the attack: how the attackers got initial access to FireEye s systems, what defenses they bypassed and how, whether any Windows zero-days were used, and just what if any internal information they accessed on what FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia described as their ultimate target: