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Part of operating an effective security program is the ability to never rest upon any previous success. When guarding against an adversary, yesterday’s success is quickly eclipsed by the dynamic shift in the attacker’s tactics. Just as a doctor “rules out” a particular diagnosis, an effective attacker first searches for well-known vulnerabilities using catalogs of offensive exploits. These are part of the attacker’s playbook. Thankfully, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) has always been and continues to…

The family of a teenage girl from Florida who was arrested and detained over cyber-threats she didn’t make is suing her former school and Meta. Pembroke Pines Police Department (PPPD) arrested the 13-year-old in November 2021 for “making a written threat to do bodily harm or commit an act of terrorism” and charged her with a second-degree felony. An investigation was launched after threatening messages were sent to students and staff at Renaissance Charter School…

The United States has charged a nurse and a Marine Corps reservist with selling hundreds of forged coronavirus vaccination cards.  An indictment unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn on Thursday alleges that 26-year-old Jia Liu of Queens, New York, and 27-year-old nurse Steven Rodriguez of Long Beach, were involved in a scheme to steal blank cards, populate them with false coronavirus immunization data and sell them to unvaccinated people.  The defendants are further accused of destroying vials containing COVID-19…

A married couple from Maryland has admitted conspiring to steal nuclear secrets from the United States and sell them to a foreign nation.  Annapolis residents, Jonathan and Diana Toebbe, were arrested by the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service on October 9 2021 after placing an SD card containing stolen restricted data at a pre-arranged ‘dead drop’ location in Jefferson County, West Virginia. At the time of his arrest, Jonathan Toebbe was employed as a nuclear…