by Vanessa Garrison | Feb 21, 2026
Ms. Rebecca “Becky” Gurley Bace, computer security expert and pioneer in intrusion detection, passed away on March 14, 2017. Referred to as a “a maverick and a catalyst for women in cybersecurity” by Julian Waits, President and CEO of SAIFE,...
by Vanessa Garrison | Feb 21, 2026
Albert Dale Braeuninger, 81, husband of Kathleen E. Braeuninger, passed away Tuesday evening, Aug. 5, 2008, at a Caribou nursing facility, after a brief illness. He was born Aug. 29, 1926, in Philadelphia, the son of Albert William and Mary Dale (Hackett) Braeuninger....
by Vanessa Garrison | Feb 21, 2026
Vera R. Filby, died at her home in Savage, MD, on 15 May 2007 at age 86. She had suffered from a stroke a few weeks earlier. One of the near-legendary figures of NSA, linking its present to England’s WW II Bletchley Park, Mrs. Filby, widow of Bletchley Park veteran,...
by Vanessa Garrison | Feb 21, 2026
William T.”Bill” Kvetkas, Jr. (October 10, 1930 – July 8, 2020) was born and raised in Wilkes-Barre, PA. He attended Meyers High School there and was selected for the PA high school state Band. He attended the Wharton School at the U of Penn. where he was a...
by Vanessa Garrison | Feb 21, 2026
William McKay, 88, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who later spent 20 years as a computer systems analyst at the National Security Agency, died Nov. 12, 2009 at the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington in Rockville. He had dementia. Col. McKay joined the Army in 1941...
