Information Security & Occasional Forays Into Adjacent Realms
Our thanks to Purdue University’s The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) for publishing their illuminating security symposiums, seminars, talks, and presentations on the Schools’ YouTube channel.
Dallas County Iowa Courthouse
via the sagacious Dan Goodin, Security Editor at Ars Technica, comes news of the exoneration of two Coalfire (Coalfire is a security risk management firm with headquarters in the astoundingly-beautiful State of Colorado) Penetration Testers of all charges (see the previously published story and opinion piece) related to contract penetration testing (evidently, both physical and logical) work for the resplendent-yet-down-to-earth State of Iowa's Judicial Branch. This is great news for both the Information Security Industry and the two Pentesters.
Now, one more thing: Who's going to take care of expunging their respective police arrest records?
Original Coalfire and State of Iowa Courts Work Agreements
News, via Julia Horowitz reporting at CNN Business (also reported by the CBC), and detailing what's currently known of the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, AKA Cathy Meng or Sabrina Meng at Vancouver International Airport, in Beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia by Canadian Federal Agents (specifically the Department of Justice Canada), in regards to an arrest warrant created by the Federal District Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
Additionally, Meng Wanzhou, AKA Sabrina Meng or Cathy Meng is the daughter of Ren Zhengfei, known as the founder of Huawei. Ostensibly, this incarceration, the contemplated extradition, and subsequent prosecutorial activity is targeting violations by Huawei company officials in the matter of repeated violations of the Iran Trade Sanctions the company allegedly transgressed under her direction.
Updated: BT bars Huawei's 5G kit from core of network - BBC News
via the inimitable Cyrus Farivar, writing at Ars Technica, details the recent criticsim of Federal Bureau of Investigation's behavior in inmproper device search (in this case a mobilephone) and a apparently non-standardized practice of signal interception via a Singray devices. Certainly today's MustRead, especially in the event you may be interested in search, seizure and signal interception law you have hit the mother loade!
'The crux of the issue is that, in April 2016, an FBI agent sought and obtained two warrants from an Alameda County Superior Court judge: one to search Artis' phone and another to deploy a stingray to locate Hopkins.' - via Cyrus Farivar, writing at Ars Technica