Patrick Sullivan, former vice-president for privacy and information policy at Guardent, has joined Synomos as senior vice-president of policy advisory services. Prior to this move, Sullivan was a senior manager in PricewaterhouseCoopers' Compliance Risk Management group and executive director of the Computer Ethics Institute.
Following a series of high-profile Twitter account hijacks, the microblogging service finally has delivered two-factor authentication.
The 100-page report mostly addresses alleged Chinese cyber espionage operations, and suggests it's time for U.S. government agencies and corporations to consider more proactive approaches, possibly including hack-backs.
The IE exploit was most recently used in watering hole attacks directed at the U.S. Department of Labor website.
