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Hackers Deface Electronic Billboard Near Seattle Washington

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By William Knowles @c4i
Senior Editor
InfoSec News
January 1, 2019
Updated: January 3, 2019

For 99.9999% of the world’s population, New Year’s Eve is a time to let your hair down and have a few drinks celebrating the passing of another year, but I suspect its just another day on the calendar for John McAfee when he shared this tweet (Very NSFW) to his 885K followers on Twitter.

So it comes to no surprise that billboard hackers @le_keksec shared McAfee’s tweet to hundreds of thousands more near Seattle Washington and was reposted posted to Twitter. (NSFW)

On Tuesday, a McAfee spokesperson confirmed that the billboard operator was hacked and as a result, the display has been shut down.  McAfee, a device to cloud cybersecurity company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, also noted that John McAfee has not been affiliated with the company in any capacity for over 25 years.

The DoD Cybersecurity Policy Chart

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By William Knowles @c4i
Senior Editor
InfoSec News
November 11, 2018
Updated January 8, 2019

The goal of the DoD Cybersecurity Policy Chart, developed by the Cyber Security and Information Systems Information Analysis Center (CSIAC) is to capture the tremendous breadth of applicable policies, some of which many cybersecurity professionals may not even be aware, in a helpful organizational scheme. The use of color, fonts, and hyperlinks are all designed to provide additional assistance to cybersecurity professionals navigating their way through policy issues in order to defend their networks, systems, and data.

At the bottom center of the chart is a legend that identifies the originator of each policy by a color-coding scheme. On the right-hand side of the Cybersecurity Policy Chart, there are boxes, which identify key legal authorities, federal/national level Cybersecurity policies, and operational and subordinate level documents that provide details on defending the DoD Information Network (DoDIN) and its assets. Links to these documents can be found in the Chart.

Click on the image above to download an interactive copy of .pdf of the DoD Cybersecurity Policy Chart, The chart was last updated on January 7, 2019. View the changelog here.

DerbyCon 8 Videos are online!

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DerbyCon8

By William Knowles @c4i
Senior Editor
InfoSec News
October 18, 2018

Adrian/@irongeek_adc has uploaded all the presentations from DerbyCon VIII here and at Archive.org to download. DerbyCon was held at the Marriott Louisville on October 3rd thru the 7th, 2018. Dates for DerbyCon 9 have been announced, Training dates are September 18th and 19th 2019, with the conference again to be held at the Marriott Louisville September 20th to 22nd 2019.

InfoSec News is at DEF CON 26!

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By William Knowles @c4i
Senior Editor
InfoSec News
August 11, 2018

After nearly a 30 month break from running InfoSec News continuously for fourteen years, I will be doing a soft re-opening in the next week or so as we hammer out all the little fixes (like forcing https!) that have been hounding the site. A future post will go into greater detail about the sabbatical from running InfoSec News and what lies in the future. In the meantime, I am handing out InfoSec News stickers and globe beach balls around DEF CON 26, as you ‘might’ have received one at the DEF CON 26 Hacker Jeopardy finals tonight and was curious what this site is about.

 

Jimmy Kimmel Asks What Is Your Password?

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By William Knowles @c4i
Senior Editor
InfoSec News
January 17, 2015

President Obama just unveiled a number of proposals to crack down on hackers. It’s great that the government is working on this but we need to do a better job of protecting ourselves. So Jimmy Kimmel sent a camera out onto Hollywood Boulevard to help people by asking them to tell us their password.

It’s too bad there’s no legislation planned for poor password choice.