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Brandon Whalen, Jennifer Jenkins, Gene Dollarhide Named SealingTech Mission Directors


Sealing Technologies has named industry leaders Brandon Whalen, Jennifer Jenkins and Gene Dollarhide to its leadership team to serve as head of three mission areas as part of an updated structure meant to better support internal operations and advance cybersecurity mission.

Whalen will serve as mission director of SealingTech’s security-enhanced information sharing and will bring to the role his knowledge of cross-domain platforms, the company said Thursday.

In 2019, he joined SealingTech from Quark Security, where he served as founder and CEO.

Jenkins, who has been with SealingTech since 2017, has assumed the role of mission director of secure enterprise modernization and will lead a team responsible for transforming government networks and operations. She will continue to oversee the company’s enterpise modernization center on the eastern shore.

Dollarhide, who previously worked at Iron Bow Technologies, has been named mission director of defensive cybersecurity operations and will oversee personnel, contract execution and platforms delivery and come up with a roadmap to enhance cyber operations.

Courtney Jones Duggan, formerly marketing executive at Versant Health, will serve as director of marketing at SealingTech. She brings to the role her experience in marketing, strategic planning and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Founded in 2012, SealingTech is a Columbia, Maryland-based veteran-owned small business providing research, development and implementation services and specializes in the areas of cyber defense operations, cloud, cross-domain platforms, mission-critical IT, signals intelligence and mobile security in support of defense and federal agencies.

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In conversation with Gene Hoffman, co-creator of the internet’s first ad blocker • The Register


Interview Gene Hoffman is one of the founders of PrivNet, which in 1996 developed Internet Fast Forward, the internet’s first commercial ad blocking software. He helped found the company as a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with the help of fellow students Mark Elrod, Jeff Harrell, and James Howard.

PrivNet released Internet Fast Forward in mid-1996 and by November of that year, Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) announced that it was buying the startup.

Hoffman has been involved in the creation and sale of two other companies, EMusic.com, sold to Vivendi Universal in June 2001, and Vindica, sold to Amdocs in 2016. He’s currently president and COO of Chia Network, a cryptocurrency platform founded by BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen.

In an interview with The Register, Hoffman revisited the early days of ad blocking and discussed how the technology industry has changed over the past 25 years. What follows is a transcript of the discussion, edited for clarity.

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Hoffman: I had a friend from high school who originally went to MIT and ended up back in North Carolina. UNC was kind of oddly central to the development of the internet. A lot of people kind of don’t know the deep roots there, but Usenet was created to stop people from getting drunk and crashing their VWs as they went back and forth from Duke to UNC, because all the Dukies would go to Chapel Hill to party and bad things would happen on the way back.

Linux was hosted locally at SunSITE at UNC back in the day. When I got to college as a freshman, the World Wide Web was just finally a thing. Gopher was still something you actually used a lot. The first moment in the fall, when there were thunderstorms rolling through and I downloaded real-time radar data and watched it on, you know, some painful old Macintosh, it was like, “Oh my this is going to be big!”

We’d seen Netscape IPO, you know, we’d seen that things were going the way we all…

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Gene Simmons steps up computer security after police raid – Toronto Sun


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Gene Simmons steps up computer security after police raid
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Gene Simmons steps up computer security after police raid. 0. WENN.COM. First posted: Friday, September 04, 2015 08:31 AM EDT | Updated: Friday, September 04, 2015 08:58 AM EDT. Gene Simmons Musician Gene Simmons attends the 32nd Annual …
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Gene Lyons: Cyber warfare beats ground – Battle Creek Enquirer

Gene Lyons: Cyber warfare beats ground
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Always mindful, however, of two things: First, the great enemy isn't methodology but lawlessness. When J. Edgar Hoover targeted Martin Luther King, he used not NSA computers but tape recorders the size of electric typewriters. Two, cyber warfare beats

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