Fed Cybersecurity Incidents Rocket 650% In 5 Years

Federal Cybersecurity Incidents Rocket 650% In 5 Years
InformationWeek
As Obama administration declares October a time to focus on stopping cybersecurity threats, GAO releases a report indicating weaknesses. By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek As the White House declares National Cybersecurity Awareness Month to shed ...
Northrop Grumman Kicks Off Activities in Support of National Cybersecurity ...
MarketWatch (press release)
CyberPatriot IV Competition Kick Off -- Cybersecurity Career showcase at Engineering EXPO for Fairfax County Public School students -- Washington Post Live Cyber Discussion Oct. 27 MCLEAN, Va., Oct. 5, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman ...
House Cybersecurity Task Force Wary of Rules on Network Defense
BusinessWeek
By Eric Engleman Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Congress should seek to strengthen computer defenses at US power, water and telecommunications companies with voluntary standards and limited regulation, according to a House Republican task force on cybersecurity ...
Government's Crosshairs On Cybersecurity for October
Microsoft Certified Professional
Celebrate National Cybersecurity Awareness Month with these guidelines presented by the US government. Plus: Google and Microsoft fling malware accusations; Redmond hogging credit for latest botnet takedown? By Jabulani Leffall October is National ...
Cyber Security
AmmoLand.com (press release)
Do you spend as much time thinking about cyber security as you do physical security? Granted, you're unlikely to lose your life as a result of poor cyber security but you may well incur financial costs as well as reputational damage. ...
Wave Chief Scientist to Present on Mobile Security Breakthroughs at Federal ...
MarketWatch (press release)
/quotes/zigman/102385/quotes/nls/wavx WAVX +2.19% announced today that Chief Scientist Dr. Robert Thibadeau will present at the Federal Cybersecurity Conference today, addressing how embedded hardware security built on open standards can thwart threats ...
Evolving the Role of Cybersecurity
GovInfoSecurity.com
The newly formed Department of Technology, Management and Budget will continue to see different perspectives and agencies come together to aid the state in its mission of fostering affective cybersecurity. Identity management is one area, for example, ...
DHS, Commerce Seek Industry Input on Botnet Cybersecurity Strategy
HSToday
This kind of private sector leadership is a cornerstone in my cybersecurity bill with Senator [Olympia] Snowe. In order to make cyberspace safe in the 21st century, it is critical that other US companies follow suit." Rockefeller and Snowe (R-Maine) ...
Cyber Security Expert: "Mass Casualties" Possible
Wealth Daily
Carried out by an incredibly sophisticated computer virus called Stuxnet, this was the cyber securityequivalent of a cruise missile. Using a worm hole found within the Windows operating system, a network of hackers managed to infiltrate the plant ...
CGI Appoints IT Security Leader Ken Taylor to Head National Cybersecurity Practice
Stock Markets Review
A)(NYSE: GIB), a leading provider of information technology (IT) and business process services, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ken Taylor as Vice-President, Cybersecurity Canada to lead and continue building CGI's cybersecurity practice. ...
Federal cybersecurity incidents jump sixfold in five years
GCN.com
By Alice Lipowicz Federal agencies have been told for years that enterprise secerurity is not keeping up with cyber threats. The Government Accountability Office now has released hard data to back up that assertion, with a report stating that ...
Massive Surge in Federal Cyber Security Incidents
eSecurity Planet
"The GAO also put some blame on the Office of Management and Budget for persistent cybersecurity incidents, saying that while they provided new cybersecurity metrics for agencies, they did not always provide performance target to measure improvements," ...
Glimmerglass Unveils the CyberSweep™
Moneylife Personal Finance site and magazine
Glimmerglass, the premier supplier of optical cyber solutions, today announced the availability of the CyberSweep™, an end-to-end solution for managing cyber security. CyberSweep enables dynamic selection of optical signal sources and the extraction ...
NCSA, Indiana University co-sponsoring security innovation institute
Indiana University
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Indiana University's Center for Applied CybersecurityResearch (CACR) are teaming up later this month to help large National Science Foundation ...
DoD Names Cyber Policy Leader
GovInfoSecurity.com
Eric Rosenbach, who led the global cybersecurity practice at Good Harbor Consulting, is the new deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Tuesday. Rosenbach began his assignment on Sept. ...
In face of massive cybersecurity threat, government security dawdles
Network World
By Michael Cooney, Network World At a time when the cyberthreat level is at its peak, many federal agencies continue to struggle with IT security. Weaknesses in information security policies and practices at 24 major federal agencies continue to place ...
Cyberattack: 10 big targets
GovExec.com
Cybersecurity threats run the gamut, from kids who hack into networks to see what they can get away with to criminal enterprises seeking to breach and manipulate networks as a means of enriching their members. In the federal sector, the overwhelming ...
Industry remembers security heavweight Schultz
SC Magazine US
It was during this period that Schultz first met several other cybersecurity luminaries, including Howard Schmidt and Gene Spafford. During his 30-year career, Schultz worked as a computer science professor at several colleges, including Purdue ...
Quicklook Report: The FedCyber.com Government-Industry Cybersecurity Summit of ...
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
The FedCyber.com Government-Industry Cybersecurity Summit was a meeting of cybersecuritypractitioners looking for new approaches, new ideas, and new strategies for enhancing cybersecurityin and around government. The 28 September 2011 gathering at ...
Staying Safe On Social Network Sites
Duke University
As part of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October, the Duke IT Security Office is reminding the Duke community to protect themselves online. Students, staff and faculty are invited to their digital savvy by taking the IT security quiz online ...
Memphis Picks SAIC for $37 Million IT Contract; Doug Wagoner Comments
ExecutiveBiz (blog)
Under the contract SAIC will monitor the Memphis IT infrastructure, delivery and system operations, cybersecurity and telecommunications support. Thirty percent of the contract will also focus on local minority businesses. “We are proud to be selected...
Passwords can be cracked in 12 seconds with £30 GPUs
Inquirer
By Dean Wilson HACKERS CAN FIGURE OUT your password in less than 12 seconds thanks to high street graphics cards that cost as little as £30, business hosting firm UKFast revealed as part of Cyber Security Awareness Month. The company performed tests ...
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Continuity Central (press release)
Canada has also designated October as Cyber Security Awareness Month. This was announced by the Honourable Vic Toews, Canada's Minister of Public Safety, who said that government and business leaders would use the month to remind individuals how to ...
NCSAM: 10 tips for fighting credit card theft and fraud
The Tech Herald
by Steve Ragan - Oct 5 2011, 07:00 3Delta Systems, a Level-3 B2B (business-to-business) credit card processing vendor known for tokenization, has offered up 10 tips on preventing credit card fraud and theft in honor of National Cyber SecurityAwareness ...
Finland to provide EUR 5 mln for cyber security in Tanzania
Telecompaper (subscription)
The Finnish government has offered EUR 5 million to Tanzania to support the formation of a cyber security innovation policy. The minister for Communication, Science and Technology, Makame Mbarawa, told The Citizen that the Finnish government is was ...
NCSAM: Security in 140 characters or less…
The Tech Herald
His tips were sourced from Twitter; hence this story's title, but they are a perfect fit for National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Security in 140 characters or less.(IMG:J.Anderson) Liston's blog starts out by recounting a recent job. ...
House E&C panel asks GAO to review security of communications networks
The Hill (blog)
By Gautham Nagesh - 10/04/11 05:11 PM ET The House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a bipartisan letter to the Government Accountability Office on Tuesday asking them to review the cybersecurity of the country's communications networks. ...
House Intel Chairman Blasts China on Cyber-Economic Espionage
ABC News (blog)
“ During a hearing on cybersecurity issues, the chairman of the committee Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) discussed his worries over widespread efforts by China to steal intellectual property from companies that could harm US companies and bring widespread ...
House Select Committee on Intelligence Hearing on Cybersecurity ...
The committee also evaluated the status of the United States government's efforts at providing cyber security within the government, the status of cyber security in the private sector, and the sharing of government information, including ...
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Campus Digest » Blog Archive » Cyber Security Month: 'Our Shared ...
By Steven Vosnakis
October is Cyber Security Month and this year's theme is “Our Shared Responsibility.” Clark ITS will post several articles and announcements during the month in an effort to do our part to help you stay safe online. More… Post expires at ...
Campus Digest
R U Safe in Cyberspace? :: North Carolina State University Bulletin
By David Hunt
The high-tech experts on campus are taking advantage of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, also known as October, to focus their efforts. The highlight of the month is a Cyber Citizen Forum from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, in the ...
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GAO: Federal Data at Cyber Risk
By Elizabeth Hyman
The Obama Administration has designated October as National Cybersecurity Awareness month and will be conducting events across the country to promote cyber safety. GAO: Federal Data at Cyber Risk — Sensitive data housed by a ...
CompTIA Blog
Cybersecurity as a Shared Responsibility: Stop, Think, and Connect ...
Cybersecurity as a Shared Responsibility: Stop, Think, and Connect ... Topics: Cybersecurity, Executive Security Awareness, national cyber security awareness ...
www.educause.edu/Resources/.../237480
ISC Diary | Cyber Security Awareness Month Day 1/2 - Schedule
This year for Cyber Security awareness month we are going to go through the 20 critical controls. Because there are 20 controls we have decided that we will ...
isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=11710
In face of massive cybersecurity threat, government security dawdles
At a time when the cyberthreat level is at its peak, many federal agencies continue to struggle with IT security.
www.networkworld.com/.../100411-gao-cybersecurity-25156...
US Fed Agencies Insist Cyber Security Code of Conduct against ...
US Fed Agencies Insist Cyber Security Code of Conduct against Botnet · The Alex Jones Channel · Alex Jones Show podcast · Prison Planet TV · Infowars.com ...
www.infowars.com/us-fed-agencies-insist-cyber-security-code...

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