Chamber hosts breakfast discussion on cyber attacks

Tom Ervin, FBI squad computer scientist, discussed cyber attacks at the San Marcos Area Chamber of Commerce Business @ Breakfast educational series. 

Ervin, who highlighted various cyber threats from phishing to malware threats, spoke at the City of San Marcos Rec Hall on Tuesday. 

“I kind of call what I do cyber forensics,” Ervin told the crowd of about 30, “where I’m not just looking at hard drives but all forms of digital evidence. I work criminal cases, counterintelligence cases, and so it’s a wide variety of different cyber threats that we address all the way from the criminal side all the way to state-sponsored — those are countries that are hiring hackers to get information.”