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Peter Highnam named IARPA director
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: federal_agencies_legislative Dr. Peter Highnam was tapped on Aug. 30 as the second director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Project Agency (IARPA) by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Highnam, IAPRA’s second director, had been serving as the acting director of the agency since the departure of its first director, Dr. [...]
Peter Kuper: VCs renewing their love affair with security companies
Information security spending is thought to be recession proof, but does it have the legs to outrun the current downturn? In-Q-Tel partner Peter Kuper thinks so, but there are still some rough times ahead. Kuper, who has handled some high-profile IPOs in the security market, told Information Security Decisions 2012 attendees this week in New [...]
Peter Eckersley & Jesse Burns – An Observatory for the SSLiverse
This talk reports a comprehensive study of the set of certificates currently in use on public HTTPS servers. We investigate who signed the certs, what properties they have, and whether there is any evidence of malicious certificates signed, directly or indirectly, by trusted CAs. Peter Eckersley is a Senior Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier [...]
[VIDEO] ANONYMOUS THREATENS TO SHUTDOWN FACEBOOK – PETER THORNE – 8.10.11
(8.10.11) Facebook is threatened by a group that thinks their part of a global digital threat to your privacy, and the internet vigilante group ‘Anonymous” now warns they’re going to do something about it. They’re vowing to take Facebook down, perhaps with a denial of service attack, on November 5th. WHAT IS THE THREAT? A [...]
