Don't let hackers know Mandiant founder checks his email on an iPad. Oh.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/06/mandia_infosec_interview/

By John Leyden
The Register
6 May 2014

Infosec 2014 Mandiant boss Kevin Mandia says he has cut back on email and 
only uses an iPad to check his inbox as he fends off counterattacks from 
hackers.

In 2013, the company published a landmark report on the so-called APT1 
espionage crew: the detailed dossier claimed Shanghai-based People's 
Liberation Army Unit 61398 had hacked and injected malware into 141 
organisations globally over seven years, and swiped terabytes of corporate 
secrets as a result.

Months later it emerged hackers had lifted personal information from 
CorporateCarOnline, a limousine-booking firm used by Mandia as well as 
basketball star LeBron James, Donald Trump and many other famous figures.

Data grabbed from the limo biz included names and addresses and credit 
numbers in a plain-text archive, plus travel records and instructions to 
drivers. The records were found on the same servers used by hackers to 
store information stolen from PR Newswire as well as source code taken 
from Adobe, investigative journalist Brian Krebs reported in November 
2013.

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