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Attackers Allegedly Target Russian Federal Networks
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Compliance Twitter Get Permission An unidentified nation-state hacking group targeted several Russian federal agencies as part of part of a cyberespionage campaign that compromised the country’s federal networks to steal sensitive data, according to a report released by Russian security firm Solar JSOC.
The report was compiled with Russia’s National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents, the agency responsible for Russian Federation governmental networks; it notes that the hackers deployed two previously unknown malware variants that used Russian cloud hosting services for the campaign.
The hackers then sought to steal confidential information, including documents and email correspondence of key federal executive authorities, the report notes.
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Frank Cilluffo, commissioner of the Cyber Solarium Commission, noted public-private partnership as a priority for the second iteration of commission recommendations. (Auburn University)
The Cyber Solarium Commission, a working group of lawmakers and cybersecurity experts, released its first report last year. In total, 27 of its recommendations passed into law as part of the Defense Authorization Act. And yet, Solarium commissioner Frank Cilluffo said there’s still a lot more work to do for the second round.
“This year we obviously recognize that cyber goes far beyond national security,” he told an audience at the RSA Conference Tuesday.
Cilluffo, director of Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security and former special adviser on homeland security for President George W. Bush, rattled off a list of priorities from the Solarium report that either had not been taken up by lawmakers or had stalled.
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David Cole
CEO, Open Raven; Niloo Howe, principal and founder, Razi Ventures
The COVID-19 pandemic created unique conditions for technology and surveillance practices to erode global privacy. In this discussion of their RSA Conference keynote, Niloo Howe and David Cole share their research, case studies and analysis.
The erosion of global privacy;
Examples from which to learn;
Actions security and privacy leaders can take with their own environments. Prior to Razi Ventures, Howe served as chief strategy officer and senior vice president of strategy and operations at RSA. She has 25 years of experience in the technology industry, with a focus on cybersecurity for the past 15 years. Before that, she served as the chief strategy officer of Endgame Inc. She is a senior operating partner at Energy Impact Partners and is on the boards o