Cyber Saturday: Marcus Hutchins’ Guilty Plea, Google Nest Camera Security, ‘768k Day’ As the New ‘Y2K’ Fortune
Marcus Hutchins, the accidental hero who helped stop the ‘WannaCry” cyberattack, should not get off scot-free for his malware misdeeds.
Tom Hollingsworth, a CCIE and author of a popular blog called “The Networking Nerd,” used that forum last week – smack in the middle of Cisco’s annual user conference — to issue a blistering critique of the CCIE routing and switching written exam.
“The discontent is palpable,” according to Hollingsworth. “From what I’ve heard around Las Vegas this week, it’s time to fix the CCIE Written Exam.”
That contention has received broad though not unanimous support on Twitter and comments on the post itself. As for Cisco, it tells me they’re always open to suggestions.
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DesLauriers: nabbing tech
spies high priority
A former employee of Akamai Technologies agreed to plead guilty to foreign economic espionage charges for providing trade secrets over an 18-month period to an undercover agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer, according to the FBI.
The prosecution was the first in Massachusetts for foreign economic espionage and only the eighth in the nation, the bureau said in a statement released July 21.
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