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As we reported previously, Google and Facebook also joined the forces against SOPA, saying SOPA would “pose a serious risk to our industry's continued track record of innovation and job creation, as well as to our nation's cybersecurity. ...
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Hacked Chamber of Commerce Opposed Cybersecurity Law
New York Times (blog)
“This happens all the time,” says Tom Kellermann, chief technology officer at AirPatrol Corp. and a member of President Barack Obama's commission on cyber security. “This is essentially the modus operandi of China's economic espionage campaign. ...
Nationwide cybersecurity education initiative launched
Government Security News
The Global Institute for Cybersecurity + Research announced on December 22 the planned launch next month of the National Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Education Initiative, a nationally coordinated public/private collaborative partnership aimed ...
European Union Examines Maritime Cyber Security
eSecurity Planet
According to a new report, the shipping industry has 'low to non-existent' awareness of cyber security issues. According to a recent report from the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), Europe's maritime sector has extremely ...
Will 2012 Be the Year of Better Cybersecurity?
IT Business Edge (blog)
But here is some news that shows that perhaps 2012 will be the year that we increase our business efforts to promote cybersecurity. Analyst company Canalys predicts enterprise security software investments will increase next year, and antivirus ...
The SEC Focuses on Cyber Security and Related Disclosure Requirements
JD Supra (press release)
Over the course of the last several years, corporations have faced the threat of cyber risk and the occurrence of cybersecurity incidents with more and more frequency. As a result, public companies have begun to report cyber risks and cyber incidents ...
Cyber Attack on U.S. Chamber Pressures Congress to Speed Web Rule Rewrite
Bloomberg
Enlarge image Cyber Attack on Chamber Presses Congress to Fix Web Rules Cyber Attack on Chamber Presses Congress to Fix Web Rules Ken Cedeno/Bloomberg “Congress and the administration have been dithering over cybersecurity for years,” said Stewart ...
Bloomberg
Turnover in DHS cyber office continues, Nicole Dean leaving
FederalNewsRadio.com
... the director of DHS's National Cyber Security Division (NCSD), announced recently she is leaving government on Jan. 22, according to an email she sent to staff in the National Protection and Programs Directorate's Office of Cybersecurity and ...
Keepers of the Internet face their greatest challenges ever
CNN
Last week, the US Federal Trade Commission wrote a letter saying ICANN has long failed to provide safeguards that protect consumers from online swindlers and help cybersecurity officials catch such crooks. In the letter, the FTC also criticized a major ...
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US claims 12 Chinese groups are behind cyber attacks
SC Magazine UK
US cyber security analysts and experts have reported that 12 groups are behind the bulk of China-based cyber attacks stealing critical data from US companies and government agencies. According to the Associated Press, the US often gives the attackers ...
SC Magazine UK
Study uncovers lack of cyber safety among mobile users
Chain Store Age
Washington, DC -- A study released Wednesday by the National Cyber Security Alliance and McAfee revealed a false sense of cyber security for mobile users. The survey, conducted by Zogby International, found that 72% of Americans have never installed ...
Bradley Manning case signals US vulnerability to 'insider' cyberattack
Christian Science Monitor
The 2011 Cyber Security Watch Survey reported that 43 percent of 607 organizations queried reported an "insider incident" last year. That finding fits between the 2006 peak of 55 percent and the 2005 low of 39 percent. The report also suggested that ...
Christian Science Monitor
Los Alamos and EMC Collaborate to Advance High-Performance Computing
Sacramento Bee
The CRADA involves six general categories of technology development in which LANL and EMC will collaborate over the next five years, including high-performance computing (HPC), data storage,cyber security, data sharing and mobility, cloud computing, ...
Ramirez leads MCTI students in Fall Cyber Foundations competition
Pocono Record
... features a series of quizzes in the most important foundational fields of cyber security: networking, operating systems and system administration. "In this constantly evolving field, it is essential that we provide the future cybersecurity ...
KYC = Kompromise Your Customer (by exposing their credentials to unnecessary risk)
ComputerWeekly.com (blog)
I then spent a couple of hours of on-line research (alias semi-random browsing) beginning with Alex Muffett's blog entry on "Londoncyber: our very own Star Trek Conference" and his presentation "WhyCybersecurity is Rubbish" and ending with "Pirates of ...
NBN's benefits a lure for cyber crime
iTWire
However, recent warnings from cyber security experts in both the New South Wales and Victorian Police suggest that consumers, service providers and regulators should be considering the security risks posed by the very characteristics identified as ...
Search fuels one small firm's dream of big data success
Washington Technology
The company recently moved into a 10000-square-foot office facility in Bethesda, Md., which also will be home to the Splunk Center of Excellence, a hands-on cybersecurity and analytics lab and training center. The company was founded by data center ...
The APTs are coming, but are agencies ready?
Government Security News
Despite increased awareness about cybersecurity threats, there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. The National Association of State Chief Information Officers reports that cyber threats are growing in numbers and severity, attacking state IT ...
AFA Congratulates Advancing Teams in CyberPatriot Competition
MarketWatch (press release)
CyberPatriot, an education initiative produced by AFA in 2008, is a one-of-a-kind cyber defense competition that provides students hands-on learning about cyber security. CyberPatriot IV brought in more than 1000 team registrations from all 50 states, ...
The AM Roundup: Countrywide, Online Gambling, More
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Calls for laws: After a WSJ report revealed that hackers based in China broke into the US Chamber of Commerce's computer network, lawmakers demanded legislation bolstering government and private-sector cybersecurity. WSJ Safe (gambling) harbor: Nevada ...
Government backs move to shut down LittleGossip website
BBC News
The DfE has contacted the Dutch Ministry of Education, as the site is hosted in Holland, and the matter is now being investigated by the Cyber Security and Incident Response Team in the Netherlands. Mr Rispoli has also started an e-petition calling for...
BBC News
Killing the Internet to save Hollywood
New York Post
As Uncle Sam's own cybersecurity experts at Sandia National Labs have noted, the measure is “unlikely to be effective.” Anyone with a tiny bit of technical know-how can easily bypass the proposed blocks in any number of simple ways. ...
VanRoekel: US Ahead of Schedule in Closing Data Centers
ExecutiveGov
Steven VanRoekel cited data center closures as means to “[cut] spending on wasteful, underutilized hardware, software and operations as well as enhance our cybersecurity; shrink our energy and real estate footprints; and take advantage of ...
Top cyber federal cyber stories of 2011
FederalNewsRadio.com
Mark Forman, the first e-gov administrator at the Office of Management and Budget and the co-founder of Government Transaction Services, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the direction of federal cybersecurity in 2012. ...
ISO 27001 information security training courses give delegates the skills to ...
TopWireNews (press release)
Increasingly companies are acknowledging that effective cyber security can be achieved by strictly following the ISO 27001 guidelines. The ISO 27001 standard requires an organisation to develop an information security management system (ISMS) that ...
Rasmussen College Partners with Foundation for Lee County Public Schools ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Rasmussen College in Fort Myers is a premier design school that offers five technology and design degrees through its School of Technology & Design: Digital Design and Animation, Game and Simulation Programming, Computer Science, Cyber Security, ...
Government stalls on privacy proposals
iT News
Without a hint of irony, the Government's response claimed that it was "actively pursuing measures" to address Cyber Security issues. The muted response may be in some part due to a preference for these issues to be dealt with in the upcoming Cyber ...
A Conversation With: Sachin Pilot
New York Times (blog)
What has happened with the nodal agency that had been discussed, potentially to be headed by (director general of India's cyber security agency) Gulshan Rai, to look for content on the Internet that might be objectionable? There is no plan to set up a ...
New York Times (blog)
Happy Christmas (The war is not over)
ABC Online
And the list is growing: the relatively new Cyber Security Operations Centre is housed inside the Defence Signals Directorate, an organisation that partners with the United States National Security Agency, now notorious for its Orwellian domestic ...
ABC Online
Treasure Coast business leaders talk about where local economy is headed
TCPalm
Technology areas, a lot of new areas, data analysis, cyber security, software engineering, simulation engineering, these are all skills that are 21st century skills, but they're the kind of skills that if people have these skills, they are almost ...
PROFNET EXPERT ALERTS: Charitable Contributions / Holiday Parties / Family Law
Stock Markets Review
Fred Cate, C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law and director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, can discuss privacy and security issues related to the holiday travel season, including TSA policies on ...
Social Media Ramps Up Investments In Security Protocols
VC Circle
However both of whisper Systems employees have authored several prominent cyber-security tools including wpacracker and SSLstrip. Whisper Systems was founded in 2010 and is also headquartered in San Francisco, California. Since inception Twitter has ...
Obama revives the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board with new ...
The Verge
Once the nominees are confirmed, they will be tasked with making sure the government's efforts to increase cybersecurity don't end up violating the privacy and rights of citizens. The government has already taken an interest in protecting private ...
Got research? NIST could show you the money.
GCN.com
The IT Lab program supports research advancing networking, cloud computing, complex systems, computer forensics, information access, cybersecurity, health IT, smart grid and software testing. An extensive list of specific objectives in which NIST is ...
The Feds step up data center consolidation
ITworld.com
The consolidation and closures are expected to save taxpayers billions of dollars by cutting spending on underutilized hardware, software and operations; improving cyber security; shrinking energy and real estate footprints; and taking advantage of ...
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