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- CS Digest Roundtable #5: GitHub DDoS, Marine Breach, iPhone Unlocking, and Battlefield of Things

| Presenters: James Rice, Michael VanSteenburg, Sean Bird | Leave a Comment

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In this episode of the CSIAC Podcast, SMEs discuss a DDos attack on GitHub, a data breach suffered by the U.S. Marine Forces Reserve, an iPhone hack, and an Army Research Lab contract for “Internet of Battlefield Things”.

CS Digest Articles Discussed:

GitHub Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded

On Wednesday, at about 12:15 pm ET, 1.35 terabits per second of traffic hit the developer platform GitHub all at once. It was the most powerful distributed denial of service attack recorded to date—and it used an increasingly popular DDoS method, no botnet required.

Major Data Breach at Marine Forces Reserve Impacts Thousands

The personal information of thousands of Marines, sailors and civilians, including bank account numbers, was compromised in a major data spillage emanating from U.S. Marine Corps Forces Reserve.

The Feds Can Now (Probably) Unlock Every iPhone Model In Existence — UPDATED

In what appears to be a major breakthrough for law enforcement, and a possible privacy problem for Apple customers, a major U.S. government contractor claims to have found a way to unlock pretty much every iPhone on the market.

Army Research Lab Awards $25 Million Contract for Internet of Battlefield Things

The U.S. Army Research Lab (ARL) has awarded a $25 million contract to a consortium of university researchers known as the Alliance for Internet of Battlefield Things Research on Evolving Intelligent Goal-drive Networks (IoBT REIGN) to develop new predictive battlefield analytics and services.

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Presenters

James Rice
James Rice
James Rice is a Cybersecurity Instructor at Mohawk Valley Community College (MVCC) and was the Lead Instructor for the GenCyber summer camps at MVCC for 2016 and 2017. He is also a cybersecurity analyst at Quanterion Solutions Incorporated.
Michael VanSteenburg
Michael VanSteenburg
Mr. VanSteenburg is a Cyber Security Analyst at Quanterion Solutions Incorporated in Utica, NY. He has earned his Masters degree in cybersecurity from Utica College with a concentration in computer forensics. His areas of expertise are computer and network security, information assurance, and computer forensics. His research focuses on network design security, intrusion detection systems, and implementation of current cybersecurity best practices. He also has experience in transitioning web systems from traditional infrastructure to the Azure Government cloud as well as deploying privately hosted cloud infrastructure.
Sean Bird
Sean Bird
Sean Bird is a Software Engineer with Quanterion Solutions Inc. in Utica, NY. His work includes system design, systems analysis, software development, and cloud security/infrastructure. He has earned his undergraduate degree in Cybersecurity from SUNY Polytechnic Institute (formerly SUNYIT) and is currently pursuing his graduate degree in Computer Engineering at Syracuse University.

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