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Black Hat Organizer Touts Value of Publicizing Cyber-Security Research eWeek Organizations and international governments are now more aware of the necessity of cyber-securityand are exerting a more concerted effort to protect core Internet infrastructure, Black Hat founder and director Jeff Moss said as he welcomed attendees ...

CompTIA Breakaway 2011 Concludes with Tech Summit on Cybersecurity, Healthcare IT Bradenton Herald Thursday's conference agenda featured the inaugural CompTIA Tech Summit, which delivered discussions amongst policy-makers, think tanks and the IT industry on the important issues of healthcare IT and cybersecurity. Dr. Carolyn M. Clancy, ...

Defense Department Announces New Hacker-Recruitment Program RedOrbit According to Tabassum Zakaria of Reuters, "said he joined the Pentagon's research arm to try and build bridges between the government's cybersecurity needs and hackers working on innovative projects… What he found instead was a lumbering bureaucracy ...

Cyber Crime on the Rise: Can Cyber Security Firms Reverse The Trend? NASDAQ Around two months ago, Kapitall wrote about the prospects of cyber security firms amidst the ongoing onslaught of cyber-attacks from groups like “Anonymous." The article concludes with a suggestion that cyber security firms might benefit from an ...

Cybersecurity Among Casualties Of State Budget Woes Investor's Business Daily So warns the National Association of State Chief Information Officers, which says states are delaying critical cybersecurity investments. "This isn't an area that states can ignore," said Doug Robinson, the trade group's director. ..

At the Forefront of Cyber Security Research LiveScience.com Suzanna Schmeelk works at the forefront of cyber security research. In her role as both Berkeley R&D Engineer and a member of describes the Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST), she examines critical cyber security issues....

Future cyberguardians get training Richmond Times Dispatch Credit: JOHN R. BLACKWELL Erye Hernandez of Sterling, a camper and a computer science student at George Mason University, wants a job in cybersecurity. In an auditorium temporarily transformed into a kind of cyber war room, 85 "good guy" computer ...

Increased Cyber Awareness Touted By Black Hat Organiser eWEEK Europe UK A Black Hat organiser has pointed to promising trends on how organisations are meeting the cyber security challenge, despite the volatile nature of the threat landscape. Organisations and international governments are now more aware about the necessity ...

Intel's McAfee product leverages old chip features Reuters By Noel Randewich SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel's first cyber-security product co-developed with its McAfee unit will take advantage of features already built into its processors and will likely be available as an extra service to customers. ...

Telecom department to ensure monitoring of social websites Indiantelevision.com NEW DELHI: The Home Ministry has asked the Department of Telecommunication to ensure effective monitoring of social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter in order to strengthen cyber security paraphernalia,Communications and Information ...

Can Facebook Pictures Give Away Too Much Personal Information? Christian Post The team was led by Professor Alessandro Acquisti who demonstrated the technology at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas on Thursday. “Your face is a conduit between the online and offline world,” said Acquisti. ...

Anatomy of the attack on RSA FCW.com By John Zyskowski A sophisticated attack last spring on cybersecurity vendor RSA and other defense contractors highlighted techniques that are the calling card of advanced persistent threat, an increasingly common type of hacking that targets ...

CACR Fellow: AT&T's decision to enhance voicemail privacy a win for consumers Indiana University "This is a win for consumers," said Indiana University Center for Applied CybersecurityResearch graduate fellow Chris Soghoian, who called for enhanced voicemail privacy settings in an op-ed he co-authored for The Hill last month. ...

AntiSec: Record-setting document leak targets officers and informants The Tech Herald His new role is Director of Cyber Security for Sayers and Associates. Counting the State Department, Army, Navy, the Department of Energy, and Homeland Security among its clients, Sayers can offer everything from engineering and logistics services,...

Cyberterrorism Defense Initiative accepting registrations for DHS-certified ... Middletown Transcript Minimum Prerequisite: A minimum of 3 years experience as a system/network administrator or as acybersecurity professional is required. An intermediate understanding of network concepts, to include TCP/IP and Domain Name Services, along with general ...

Healthcare, Cybersecurity Top CompTIA Agenda Channel Partners More than 1000 IT industry leaders left CompTIA Breakaway 2011 with a better understanding of issues like cybersecurity and healthcare IT after attending the inaugural CompTIA Tech Summit. Overall, the four-day conference offered attendees robust ...

DefCon: Hacker Conference Exposes Lax Security Of Companies, Other Hackers Huffington Post Admission to DefCon, now in its 19th year, is $150, far less than Black Hat, a cybersecurityconference held earlier this week at nearby Caesar's Palace that cost around $1500. At both conferences, hackers can make a name for themselves by ...

To BYOD, or not to BYOD ITWorld Canada Android apps, Facebook links top list of cyber risks: ReportBy: Kathleen Lau (8/5/2011 11:31:00 AM)Cloud security vendor Trend Micro Inc. has released its 2011 Q2 report on the state of the cyber security threat landscape that shows an uptick in And .. ...

Cyber attacks reveal that Facebook and all systems open to hackers HULIQ The orders detail when the military must seek presidential approval for a specific cyber assault on an enemy and weave cyber capabilities into US war fighting strategy,” defense officials and cyber security experts told CBS News back on June 22. ...

MicroTech Secures $10 Billion Federal Contract for STARS II TMC Net The project is significant for MicroTech as STARS II provides a wide variety of IT solutions like cybersecurity, information assurance, virtualization, sustainability, health IT, cloud computing, IPV6, VoIP, and Web 2.0 across the government. ...

Pentagon to fund hacker innovation Times of Oman LAS VEGAS: Hacker-turned-defence official, decrying the government's slowness to change, rolled out a new program on Thursday that would enable the Pentagon to more quickly fund hackers to tackle its tough cyber-security challenges. ...

Mobile security 'dicey' but doable GCN.com The company is poised to release a review of 100 popular mobile applications and plans, Hoog told attendees at CompTIA's Tech Summit on Cybersecurity in Washington. CompTIA is a trade association that promotes the global interests of IT professionals ...

TeleCommunication Systems to Demonstrate Software Controls Capabilities for ... MarketWatch (press release) Government agencies utilize TCS' cybersecurity expertise and professional services. Headquartered in Annapolis, MD, TCS maintains technical, service and sales offices around the world. To learn more about emerging and innovative wireless technologies, ...

Security experts complacent about physical network attacks, study finds IDG News Service Meanwhile, Philippe Jan, a tutor in cyber security at Lancaster University and former head of the internal technology training team at Symantec, suggested that industry may be more concerned about social engineering attacks because they may have ...

Pentagon targets "insider" cyber threats TG Daily Indeed, DARPA has stated that it wants the technology developed by ADAMS researchers to bolster the capabilities of existing sensor suites currently employed by cyber security analysts and operators. "This project will provide unprecedented ...

Europe Security Day Press News Meanwhile, in the decade since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the ability of computers to zero in on terrorists by mining reams advance substantially, said Bhavani Thuraisingham, director of the Cyber Security Research Center at the .

Nl Smart Grid Experts Discuss Electric Utility Plans and Challenges Automation World Oncor's Greer said, “Cyber security is fundamental in everything we do.” Silverstein added that “redundancy and failsafe modes must be built in layers of defense to react to any problem.” In the future, according to the panelists, one could envision a ...

What you need to know about the latest cyber foes FCW.com The tainted e-mail messages reference real projects and co-workers, so rather than being suspicious about an attachment, “you're stupid if you don't open it,” said Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, a cybersecurity training ...

Microsoft offers over $250000 for better online defenses Neowin Microsoft hopes that the new BlueHat competition will encourage researchers in cyber security to create new and better ways to stop outside threats to PCs and other electronic devices. Microsoft's press release that announced the BlueHat prize quotes ...

Market Recap: DJIA Ends Yo-Yo Session with a 60-Point Gain; Loses 5.8% for the ... Schaeffers Research Despite their promises, online security vendors and antivirus software can't stop every cyber attack, as evidenced by the mounting number of hacked companies and governments each day. Or, as Thieme told the Black Hat cyber-security conference in Las ...

Research and Markets: Cloud Computing - Key Enabler of Smart Grid Business Wire (press release) The report discusses how cost efficiency, flexibility and existing capabilities of cloud computing can help in development of smart grid despite concerns related to cyber security and data privacy.

Cloud Computing: America Gets Its Second CIO SYS-CON Media (press release) ... finances, HR and IT. He moved to the US Agency for International Development in June. He's supposed to continue Kundra's cloud and data center consolidation initiative. On his appointment VanRoekel mentioned cybersecurity as a priority.

US to Hack Back at Cyber Threats CIO Insight By CIOinsight The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is embarking on a Cyber-Fast Track project that will fund small and quick cyber-security projects. a DARPA official and former freelance hacker discusses the details behind the agency's ...

Cyber spies trying to infiltrate governments and mega-companies have some ... Edmonton Journal By Teresa Smith, Postmedia News August 5, 2011 9:31 AM Experts say one of the biggest flaws incyber security is human error, spurred by a lack of basic computer security training for executives and high-ranking officials. ...

Cybersecurity Report: 84% Believe Risk is Higher than 1 Year Ago ... By Jeff Jones - MSFT With the annual Black Hat (Vegas) conference providing extra focus on cybersecurity this week, but also eclipsing most other news, I want to call attention to the EastWest Institute publication of their report on the Second Worldwide ... Site Home

Cyber Crime on the Rise: Can Cyber Security Firms Reverse The Trend? By Kapitall Can these cyber security stocks protect your portfolio? ... Cyber Crime on the Rise: Can Cyber Security Firms Reverse The Trend? Kapitall | Aug. 5, 2011, 12:28 PM | 13 | .... Sourcefire, Inc. (FIRE): Market cap of $688.86M. It provides intelligent Cybersecurity solutions that minimize network security risks for its corporate and government clients. Sourcefire is the developer of widely used open-source and premium intrusion and prevention software. ... Business Insider

Web security: EU cyber-security Agency ENISA flags security fixes ... Web security: EU cyber-security Agency ENISA flags security fixes for new web standards/HTML5. www.enisa.europa.eu/.../web-security-eu-cyber-security-agenc...

US-CERT Cyber Security Tips For Computer Passwords | Linder ... In this day and age, as we store most of our most personal information on our computers, cyber security is more important than ever. www.lindersecurity.com/files/2011/07/cybersecurity.jpg