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The Citadel faces West Point, Annapolis and other military schools in NSA cyber challenge | Military Digest

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The Citadel began a three-day competition on April 8 hosted by the National Security Agency that pits the country’s military colleges and service academies against each other in intense cyber security simulations. 

The NSA’s National Cyber Exercise allows future service members and cadets to experience real-life examples of digital problems the military faces. This marks the first year The Citadel has been invited to compete for the title and trophy. 



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At least 36 cadets are participating in the event. It involves exercises on forensics, cyber policy, cryptography and reverse engineering, and ends with a real-world defense challenge where they have to detect and protect a network system from hackers. 

The events take place over the course of three days and range anywhere from eight to 12 hours in length. 

“Through NCX, NSA helps to educate, train and test the cyber skills of U.S. service academy cadets and midshipmen, as well as teams from the senior military colleges and select NSA employees,” Diane Janosek, Commandant of NSA’s National Cryptologic School, said in a statement. 

“NSA has an incentive to ensure the nation has a competent cyber-smart workforce,” she added.



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In recent years, the U.S. military and the federal government have put more emphasis on training young service members to combat increasing cyber threats from terrorists and other countries. 

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National Digest: Swiss hacker charged with computer intrusion, identity theft in U.S.

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Federal prosecutors said Thursday that Kottmann, of Lucerne, Switzerland, was initially charged in September. The range of allegations date back to 2019 and involve the alleged theft of credentials and data and publishing source code and proprietary information from more than 100 entities, including companies and government agencies.

Kottmann has described the most recent leak of camera footage taken from customers of California security-camera provider Verkada as part of a “hacktivist” cause of exposing the dangers of mass surveillance. Kottmann, who uses they/them pronouns, told the Associated Press in an online chat last week that they found the credentials needed to enter the site exposed on the open Internet.

Kottmann didn’t return an online request for comment. Swiss lawyer Marcel Bosonnet said he is representing Kottmann but declined further comment Friday.

Swiss authorities said they had raided Kottmann’s home in Lucerne late last week at the request of U.S. authorities. Prosecutors said the FBI recently seized a website domain that Kottmann used to publish hacked data online.

It’s not clear if U.S. prosecutors will to try to extradite Kottmann, who remains in Lucerne and was notified of the pending charges.

Legislature closes after coronavirus outbreak

The Idaho Legislature voted Friday to shut down for several weeks because of a coronavirus outbreak.

Lawmakers in the state House and Senate moved to recess until April 6 with significant unfinished business, including setting budgets and pushing through a huge income tax cut.

At least six of the 70 House members tested positive for the coronavirus in the last week, and there are fears a variant of it is in the Capitol.

“The House has had several positive tests, so it is probably prudent that the House take a step back for a couple weeks until things calm down and it’s not hot around here for covid,” House Majority Leader Mike Moyle said before the votes.

Five of those who tested positive are Republicans and one is Democrat. Another Republican lawmaker is self-isolating. The chamber has a supermajority of 58 Republicans, most of whom rarely or never wear masks. All of the state’s Democratic lawmakers typically…

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SD Times news digest: The Hacker Gamers by Veracode, GrammaTech Shift Left Academy, and Talend to be acquired by Thoma Bravo

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Veracode has introduced a secure coding competition, The Hacker Games, which aims to challenge university students to hack and patch real-life apps online to win individual prizes, plus $15,000 in charitable donations for the top universities.

“Training around secure coding is almost absent at the university level. We’ve launched The Veracode Hacker Games to help universities make secure coding a core part of their computer science and cybersecurity curriculum, while giving students an edge when it comes to putting their skills to the test in a real-world environment,” said Chris Wysopal, the founder and CTO of Veracode.

Writing secure code is especially important now as a recent study by the University of Maryland showed that hackers attack every 39 seconds and the average cost of a data breach for a company is nearly $4 million, Veracode explained.

GrammaTech Shift Left Academy
GrammaTech’s Shift Left Academy was created to provide actionable advice on integrating security earlier into development and DevOps pipelines.

The site features interviews with industry experts, technical “how to” advice and other actionable information for the DevOps and security community.

“Developers are being asked to integrate security best practices earlier in the development cycle, or what is commonly known as ‘Shift Left’, however there is resistance to implement these large-scale initiatives since they can be disruptive to their workflows and release schedules,” said Andrew Meyer, the CMO of GrammaTech. “Shift Left Academy provides practical advice and content, versus theoretical resources. Our goal is to give the DevSecOps community tools they can use to immediately improve outcomes.”

Talend to be acquired by Thoma Bravo
The data integration and data integrity provider Talend is set to be acquired by Thoma Bravo.

Talend would become a private company and continue investing in its cloud transition as well as products and solutions that serve the evolving data needs of its customers.

“Data has become critical to every facet of the world, and Talend’s data fabric empowers organizations to operationalize their data,” said Chip Virnig, a partner at…

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SD Times news digest: GitHub’s first chief security officer, VS 2019 remote debug support, and Android Sleep API released

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GitHub hired Michael Hanley as its first chief security officer to focus on developer-first security. 

“Good security and the speed of the business are not opposing concepts when met with thoughtful design and a customer-centric approach. I believe that security done well allows us to go further, faster, and more confidently than ever before,” Hanley wrote in a blog post.

Previously, Hanley was the vice president of security at Duo Securitym and the chief information security officer at Cisco. 

VS 2019 remote debug support
Visual Studio 2019 offers remote debug support for MSBuild and CMake projects targeting Windows and Linux.

Developers can now debug on their production machines with no development tools installed other than the remote debugger, they can target less common developer environments as well as environments where Visual Studio is unavailable. 

Microsoft automatically deploys the Universal CRT and VCRuntime libraries which are to automatically deploy dependencies along with the built binaries from the project.

Additional details on the remote debug support are available here.

Android Sleep API released
Android’s Sleep API is an Android Activity Recognition API that surfaces information about the user’s sleep through ‘sleep confidence’, which is reported at a regular interval up to 10 minutes, and a daily sleep segment that appears when a user wakes up.  

The API gets this information through on-device AI that detects light and motion on a device through sensors.

The Sleep API is available now on the latest version of Google Play Services. 

Apache weekly update 
Last week, the Apache Software Foundation saw the release of Apache Commons Net 3.8.0 which implements the client side of many basic Internet protocols.

Other releases and updates this week included Qpid Broker J 7.1.12 and J 8.0.4, Beam 2.28.0, BookKeeper 4.13.0, Directory Studio 2.0-0-M16, Lucene 8.8.1 and Solr 8.8.1, and MyFaces Core v2.3-next-M5.

Additional details on all of the latest releases are available here.

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