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A Brief Summary of the 2021 Senate Intel Committee Hearing

Post author:Mireya Jurado
Post published:April 14, 2021
Post category:cybersecurity international relations

You slept in and missed the Senate Intel Committee hearing on worldwide threats. No problem, I'll give you a rundown.The top 5 threats to the US right now are China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and terrorism. Haines, the ODNI director, broke it down:China: competition in the cyber, space, and geographic spaces. A "near peer". They have their own demographic challenges.Russia: interested in asymmetric conflict (cyberrrrr) with the goal of weakening the USIran: regionally crucial, Iraq…

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CYBERWARCON Recap

Post author:Mireya Jurado
Post published:December 13, 2018
Post category:computer security cybersecurity international relations

CYBERWARCON was a one-day conference held in Arlington, VA on November 28. Talks were about threat analysis, covering advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks and information operations (IO). For me, the conference demonstrated its value by supplanting sensationalism with concrete operational insights. Here's some of my takeaways from the talks. Please forgive my fuzzy pictures! Thomas Reid The wider socio-political context may be necessary to understand forensics.Exposing part of an IO can sustain it. Camille Francois…