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Congressional Report on OPM Data Breach Released

Here is the link to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform OPM Data Breach report.Articles filled with interesting analysis have been slowly coming out since the report has been released. This report is incredibly long and detailed per style for an official document, however, should you have the time …

vDOS Online Attack Service

An interesting article from Brian Krebs over at KrebsOnSecurity came out recently. He apparently came across a large database dump of a vDOS, described as an online DDOS attack service with subscriptions. I highly recommend reading the full article and analysis, it is the first in what is to be …

Meetings in September & October

September Drew Epperson of Intel Security, formerly McAfee will be presenting at the meeting tonight, Tuesday, september 6, 2016. The topic covered will be: “Best Practices in Securing C4I and Critical Systems.” October The October meeting has been moved from October 4, to Monday, October 3, 2016. Monday, October 3, …

September 6, 2016 Meeting

ISSA Hampton Roads Chapter Tuesday, September 6, 2016 Join the ISSA Hampton Roads Chapter at Booz Allen Hamilton 5800 Lake Wright Drive, suite 450/451 Norfolk VA 23502 For a presentation by Drew Epperson, Senior Federal Solution Architect at Intel Security Group (formerly McAfee) “Best Practices in Securing C4I and Critical …

Upcoming Events

CISSP Study Group, 25 August The Hampton Roads chapter of ISSA has several exciting events coming up within the next few weeks. On August 25, the CISSP study course is set to kick off, this is a low-cost study option to help prepare Information security professionals for the CISSP exam …

Post-Quantum Cryptography?

Google recently announced their first implementation of “Post-Quantum Cryptography” for use in their Chrome Canary product. This marks their first released experimentation with post-quantum cryptography, and will be combined with standard Elliptic Curve Cryptography as a backup, in-case the technology is not quite up-to par. Their stated plan is to …