It’s open to individuals and civil society experts in information security. Basically it’s a crowd sourced effort of the best talent from across the board.
R On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:52 AM Peter Micek <[email protected]> wrote: > Are these things open to civil society or independent technologists? Or is > it just corporate? > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:35 AM Boris Rohozinski <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> There’s also a Canadian effort which is much more narrowly focussed on >> protecting hospitals, cities in critical infrastructure but which is >> federated to the COVID-19 CTI league as well. >> >> https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid19-cyber-companies-1.5508570 >> >> If there are any Canadians here who would like to jump in and support, >> the group can be accessed from here: >> >> >> https://join.slack.com/t/covid19cyber-canada/shared_invite/zt-d5097lti-K46xNVA~9i6qpvAZT_2v9g >> >> Rafal >> >> Sent fr >> >> On Mar 26, 2020, at 2:46 PM, Yosem Companys <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Called the COVID-19 CTI League, for cyber threat intelligence, the group >> spans more than 40 countries and includes professionals in senior positions >> at such major companies as Microsoft Corp and Amazon.com Inc . >> >> One of four initial managers of the effort, Marc Rogers, said the top >> priority would be working to combat hacks against medical facilities and >> other frontline responders to the pandemic. It is already working on hacks >> of health organizations. >> >> Also key is the defense of communication networks and services that have >> become essential as more people work from home, said Rogers, head of >> security at the long-running hacking conference Def Con and a vice >> president at security company Okta Inc . >> >> The group is also using its web of contacts in internet infrastructure >> providers to squash garden-variety phishing attacks and another financial >> crime that is using the fear of COVID-19 or the desire for information on >> it to trick regular internet users. >> >> Rogers said the group had already dismantled one campaign that used a >> software vulnerability to spread malicious software. He declined to provide >> details, and said that in general the group would be reluctant to reveal >> what it was fighting. >> >> Rogers said law enforcement had been surprisingly welcoming of the >> collaboration, recognizing the vastness of the threat. >> >> Rogers is a UK citizen based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Two other >> group coordinators are American, and one is Israeli. >> >> >> https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2020-03-25/cybersecurity-experts-come-together-to-fight-coronovirus-related-hacking >> -- >> Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major >> commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you >> moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, >> change to digest mode, or change password by emailing >> [email protected]. >> >> -- >> Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major >> commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you >> moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, >> change to digest mode, or change password by emailing >> [email protected]. > >
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