Confidence on election day.

On election day U.S. officials express confidence. A Virginia company is charged with violating U.S. export restrictions on technology bound for Russia. Backing up your GMail. Google mandates MFA. Google claims an AI-powered vulnerability detection breakthrough. Schneider Electric investigates a cyberattack on its internal project tracking platform. A Canadian man suspected in the Snowflake-related data breaches has been arrested. On our Threat Vector segment, David Moulton sits down with Christopher Scott, from Unit 42 to explore the essentials of crisis leadership and management.  I spy air fry?

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Threat Vector Segment

In this segment of the Threat Vector podcast, host David Moulton sits down with Christopher Scott, Managing Partner at Unit 42 by Palo Alto Networks, to explore the essentials of crisis leadership and management in cybersecurity. You can hear the full discussion here and catch new episodes of Threat Vector every Thursday on your favorite podcast app. 

Selected Reading

In final check-in before Election Day, CISA cites low-level threats, and not much else (The Record)

Joint ODNI, FBI, and CISA Statement (FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation)

Exclusive: Nakasone says all the news about influence campaigns ahead of Election Day is actually 'a sign of success' (The Record)

Virginia Company and Two Senior Executives Charged with Illegally Exporting Millions of Dollars of U.S. Technology to Russia (United States Department of Justice)

Gmail 2FA Cyber Attacks—Open Another Account Before It’s Too Late (Forbes)

Mandatory MFA is coming to Google Cloud. Here’s what you need to know (Google Cloud)

Schneider Electric says hackers accessed internal project execution tracking platform (The Record)

Google claims AI first after SQLite security bug discovered (The Register)

Suspected Snowflake Hacker Arrested in Canada (404 Media)

Is your air fryer spying on you? Concerns over ‘excessive’ surveillance in smart devices (The Guardian) 

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