Defense News in Brief: “Find your Passion and it will Rarely Feel like Work”

Source: United States Navy

“I hope she understands hard work and dedication can be rewarding and you can have an amazing career and be a wife and a mother,” says Commander Alana Huber when asked about what she hopes young women see when they look at her 22 years of service and accomplishments in the United States Navy. “Find your passion and it will rarely feel like work.”

Defense News in Brief: VP-46 Coordinated Operations in the Black Sea

Source: United States Navy

Operating alongside the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) and USS Porter (DDG-78), two Turkish frigates, the TCG Orucreis (F-245) and TCG Turgutreis (F-241), and two Turkish F-16 fighters, the Patrol Squadron (VP) 46 “Grey Knights,” participated in their first joint air and maritime training mission in the Black Sea. These operations with Turkish naval forces serve to fortify the importance and unique benefit of the maritime alliance with our NATO partners.

Statement on Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerabilities

Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News

The FBI is aware of Microsoft’s emergency patch for previously unknown vulnerabilities in Exchange Server software, attributed to the APT actor known by Microsoft as HAFNIUM. The FBI is working closely with our interagency and private sector partners to understand the scope of the threat. Network owners should immediately patch their systems.

Help us respond to victims and hold those responsible accountable. If your Exchange Server from Microsoft has been compromised, please contact your local FBI field office.

M.A. “Mo” Myers Named Executive Assistant Director of the Intelligence Branch

Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News

Director Christopher Wray has named M.A. “Mo” Myers as the executive assistant director of the Intelligence Branch at FBI Headquarters in Washington. Mr. Myers serves as the strategic leader of the FBI’s intelligence program, responsible for overseeing the FBI’s intelligence strategy, resources, policies, and functions.

Mr. Myers most recently served as the assistant director of the Insider Threat Office, the FBI’s central strategic coordinating component for all insider threat issues.

Mr. Myers began his career as an FBI agent in 1996 and primarily worked counterintelligence matters in the Miami Field Office. He conducted numerous complex counterintelligence operations, as well as extraterritorial operations with the FBI’s intelligence community partners. He also served on the Miami SWAT team from 1999 to 2004.

In 2004, Mr. Myers transferred to a counterintelligence squad in the Richmond Field Office in Virginia. He was promoted in 2008 to supervisory special agent over Richmond’s Field Intelligence Group and returned to the counterintelligence squad in 2010.

Mr. Myers was promoted to unit chief in the National Security Branch at Headquarters in 2011. Three years later, he was named the assistant special agent in charge of the intelligence and support services branch in the Oklahoma City Field Office.

In 2016, Mr. Myers was promoted to chief of the Instruction Section in the Training Division. The section is responsible for training new special agents, intelligence analysts, and staff operations specialists, and for providing instruction to National Academy participants.

He was named special agent in charge of the Memphis Field Office in Tennessee in 2018 and as the assistant director of the Insider Threat Office in 2020.

Mr. Myers earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of South Carolina and a master’s degree from Norwich University. Before joining the FBI, Mr. Myers was a state probation and parole agent in Columbia, South Carolina.