Chinese hackers face US justice; the US Secret Service forms a permanent Cyber Crime task force; the UK’s National Crime Agency’s Operation Venetic yields 746 arrests; Fresno county identity theft arrest and a flamboyant, FBI most wanted Russian hacker’s 5 million dollar bounty rounds out the law enforcement update.  Our interview with John Virden follows the roundup.

John Virden, Assistant Vice President for Security, Compliance, and Risk Management and CISO at Miami University, and I discuss the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2020. 

• Threat Actors
• Top Patterns
• Data compromised
• Incident classification patterns and subsets
• Frequency
• Actor motives
• Top Controls

Host: Matthew Hall, CISSP, CHFI, Security +

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Show Outline

1. Intro
2. Law Enforcement Round-Up:  https://start.me/p/RMpwyD/information-assured-2020
   1. Chinese Malicious Cyber Activity | CISA
   2. Two Chinese Hackers Charged in Global Computer Intrusion Campaign — FBI
   3. Secret Service Announces the Creation of the Cyber Fraud Task Force
   4. Secret Service Wanted Fugitive: Computer Fraud
   5. London: Can you name them? Appeal for information following sexual assaults... - Metropolitan Police
   6. UK: NCA and police smash thousands of criminal conspiracies after infiltration of encrypted communicati...
   7. Assistant Manager at Fresno County Retail Store Arrested for $100,000 in Credit Card Fraud | USAO-E...
   8. Alleged Russian Hacker Behind $100 Million Evil Corp Indicted | WIRED
   9. MAKSIM VIKTOROVICH YAKUBETS — FBI
   10. U.S. orders China to shut Houston consulate as spying accusations mount - Reuters

Tags: Security,UCSB,Miami,Russian,Hacker, Evil,Evil Corp,Virus,Crime,Cybercrime,Fraud,BEC,CEU,CISSP,CSF,Framework,Cyber,Cybersecurity,Infosec,InformationAssurance,Virden,Ransomware,Ransom, China,FBI,Most Wanted

Categories:  Security,UCSB,SECLAB,CSF,CISSP,CEU  

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