Posted by Johnny Lee on August 26, 2019
Today’s #GoodGuysPrevail Update: The dogged efforts by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) led to a federal grand jury indictment, unsealed yesterday, which charged 80 people (~20% within domestic U.S. + ~80% foreign nationals) with participating in a massive conspiracy to steal millions of dollars through a variety of #cyber #fraud schemes and launder the funds…
Full details are here.
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Posted by Johnny Lee on July 26, 2019
In a move that demonstrates its prowess auditing companies in the cryptocurrency industry, Grant Thornton LLP has announced that it audited more than $10 billion in cryptoassets during the first three months of 2019. Moreover, these audits covered 40 different cryptocurrencies across more than 100 million addresses.
Read the full BusinessWire article here.
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Posted by Johnny Lee on July 12, 2019
I’m looking forward to joining Loren Dealy Mahler and Kevin Walsh, CISM next week to discuss #incidentresponse best practices, during a #CyberSecurity panel discussion moderated by Armistead Whitney of Apptega.
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Posted by Johnny Lee on May 6, 2019
Kudos to the thousand-plus that showed up EARLY this morning to hear my CyberSecurity keynote presentation. This conference has some impressive talent taking the stage (present company excluded), so it was an honor to present to such a sophisticated audience on a topic that isn’t always front-and-center in their lives.
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Posted by Johnny Lee on April 2, 2019
U.S. Department of Justice secures guilty plea from a Lithuanian citizen, for his role in orchestrating a business-email-compromise-driven #fraud scheme that induced two companies to wire a total of over $100 million USD.
#BEC #cybersecurity #phishing
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Posted by Johnny Lee on January 21, 2019
Cybersecurity put under investor microscope Pensions & Investments Asset owners are examining Wall Street *service* providers, including managers and custodians, to ensure they have sound security practices.
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Posted by Johnny Lee on December 8, 2018
I had a great deal of fun presenting at this conference in the Fall of 2018. If you have an interest in viewing a plain-English, digestible introduction to blockchain technologies, this video may just be right for you.
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Posted by Johnny Lee on October 11, 2018
A Chinese spy is extradited to the U.S. after stealing technology secrets…this senior military officer now faces prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice on economic espionage charges, a precedent in the battle against China’s decades-old practice of “developing its economy at the expense of American know-how” (a lovely euphemism for stealing with great profligacy).
Full Washington Post story is here.
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Posted by Johnny Lee on September 29, 2018
A recent piece on which I collaborated (with my @GrantThorntonUS colleague Orus Dearman), focused on some of the common misconceptions we see within our Technology clients vis-à-vis #CyberSecurity…
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Posted by Johnny Lee on July 19, 2018
Investigators are examining whether @Facebook adequately warned investors about its proclivities for sharing customer data with third parties.
Wall Street Journal story is here.
#LegalizePrivacy #Privacy
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