Wall Street Journal
The Cybersecurity Act of 2012, introduced by Sen. Joe Lieberman, ran into trouble by trying to set new rules on how companies would monitor cyber security. A regulatory approach is flawed because types of cyber attack change faster than regulations can ...
DARPA releases formal solicitation for HACMS cyber security initiative for...
Military & Aerospace Electronics
Earlier in the week, DARPA conducted its first industry briefings on the HACMS military cyber security program, which aims to develop a set of publicly available tools to help build embedded computing for high-assurance military vehicles with onboard ...
Military & Aerospace Electronics
Android bug opens devices to external control: experts
Technology Spectator
Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a flaw in a component of the operating system of Google Inc's widely used Android smartphone that they say hackers can exploit to gain control of the devices. Researchers at startup cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike ...
Android bug opens devices to outside control: experts
CIOL
BOSTON, USA: Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a flaw in a component of the operating system of Google Inc's widely used Android smartphone that they say hackers can exploit to gain control of the devices. Researchers at startup cybersecurity firm ...
When Do Social Networks Become a Burden?
Government Technology (blog)
... Intranet sites at work, online magazine communities, professional association portals, security and technology topical sites (like 'mobile security' or 'cybersecurity for government cloud computing' within sites like LinkedIn) and so many more.
News Digest: Feb. 27
Federal Times
The federal government, in partnership with the state of Maryland and Montgomery County, Md., will launch a National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence that aims to speed industry's development of secure information technology products.
Community - West County
Annapolis Capital
AP VIDEO more>> As an array of defense programs face significant cuts, the cyber security agencies at Fort Meade will likely see a modest increase in funding in the next fiscal year, director of the University of Maryland's Center for Public Policy and ...
Annapolis Capital
After big tech firms, cyber attackers target small companies
Times of India
SMEs are being targeted by cyber attackers on a regular basis, said cyber securityexpert Anshul Abhang. "The reason is that non-IT SMEs do not have much investment in IT security infrastructure or solutions. Also, they are not fully aware of the ...
Can we guard against cyber-attacks?
Dailyrecord.com
“If everything went through a firewall it would be easy,” said Joe Weiss, a blogger oncyber security and industrial control systems as well as a consultant to utilities. A refinery, power plant, or a water treatment plant has thousands of sensors, ...
ITU to Support Kenya Cybersecurity Efforts By Rebecca Wanjiku
By admin
February 23, 2012 — The International Telecommunication Union has announced that it will support Kenya's cybersecurity efforts through budgetary support and personnel. In a Memorandum of Understanding signed in Geneva by the ITU ...
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Cybersecurity Hype | Cato @ Liberty
The approving response of an IT security professional last week pointed me to a story about cybersecurity in which I'm featured. The story and accompanying ...
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NIST Establishes National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
NIST Establishes National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. ... “With our focus on K-12 STEM education, cyber-security specialties in higher education, and ...
www.nist.gov/itl/csd/nccoe-022112.cfm
Does The Cybersecurity Act Of 2012 Mark The Beginning Of The ...
Is Anonymous the next Al Qaeda? The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 is the latest effort by Congress to do something about the threat of cyber attacks and cyber ...
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Cyber security – A growing threat and a business opportunity ...
The Long Island Software and Technology Network and Long Island Forum for Technology recently held its “Growing Your Cyber Security Business?” event at ...
libn.com/.../cyber-security-a-growing-threat-and-a-business-o...
DHS takes the lead in Senate cybersecurity bill Alex Jones' Infowars ...
Infowars.com the home of the #1 Internet News Show in the World.
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Hackers vandalise US jail contractor site
Australian Techworld
The website of an international prison contractor has been defaced by hackers linked to the Anonymous movement. The website of an international prison contractor has been defaced by hackers who replaced the company's home page with a hip-hop homage ...
Hackers attack Ontario police chiefs' website
CTV.ca
However, Anonymous activists threatened to target federal Public Safety Minister Vic Toews over the Harper government's proposed online surveillance bill. The police chiefs association supports the contentious legislation. The hackers posted usernames, ...
CTV.ca
Hackers attack Ontario police site
UPI.com
26 (UPI) -- The hacker group Anonymous says it hacked into the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police Web site and obtained personal information on the group's members.Hackers opposed to Canada's proposed Internet surveillance bill say they accessed ...
Cybersecurity 2.0
Wall Street Journal
The US is experiencing mind-boggling violations of cyber security. Consider this sample of violations traced to China alone discovered over the past year: For a decade,hackers accessed the corporate computer network of Nortel, whose digital switches ...
Cyber attack doesn't change support for surveillance bill
Edmonton Journal
A cyber attack on the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police has not dissuaded police from supporting a controversial federal bill on Internet surveillance, an association spokesman said Saturday. Joe Couto said the website of the Ontario Association ...
Police chiefs' website suffers cyber attack
Winnipeg Free Press
TORONTO -- A cyber attack on the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police's website has only bolstered the organization's support for the government's controversial online surveillance bill, a spokesman said Saturday. The association took down the site ...
Hackers' anti-cop campaign targets US prison contractor
Oman Tribune
SAN FRANCISCO Hacker group Anonymous late on Friday vandalised the website of a major US prison contractor in the latest salvo in an anti-police campaign. Anonymoussubgroup 'Antisec' took credit for replacing The Geo Group website home page with a rap ...
Anonymous aids in European protests
Fudzilla
Many of the protest participants donned the Guy Fawkes mask which has been associated with the hacker group "Anonymous." The protests were reminiscent of similar protests in the United States against SOPA and Occupy Wall Street.
Anonymous targets Canadian police, politicians
GlobalPost
Anonymous protesters demonstrate against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on Feb. 25 in Paris. Internet users claiming to be part of Anonymous also hit a Canadian police chiefs website and threatened to release information about a ...
AnonOps Communications: #Anonymous #ACTA protests Freiburg ...
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I see our ANONYMOUS friends & bros are kicking ass in europe,soon protests will be all over the world ANONYMOUS MILLIONS will over run the oppressers, never quit, never 4get never 4give,till the demands of millions ANONYMOUS are ...
AnonOps Communications
Ca: Police chiefs' website suffers cyber attack | Office of Inadequate ...
By admin
A cyber attack on the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police's website has only bolstered the organization's support for the government's controversial online surveillance bill, a spokesman said Saturday. The association took down the site after it was hacked late Friday afternoon by people claiming to be linked to the groupAnonymous, association spokesman Joe Couto said. The identity of those responsible for the attack has not been confirmed, but activists allied to the loose-knit ...
Office of Inadequate Security
Anonymous Hacks Private Prison Company Website
After high-profile takeovers of recording industry and Justice Department websites last month, hackers affiliated with the Anonymous movement had a new target ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../anonymous-hacks-private-prison-...
Cybersecurity Hype | Cato @ Liberty
The approving response of an IT security professional last week pointed me to a story about cybersecurity in which I'm featured. The story and accompanying ...
www.cato-at-liberty.org/cybersecurity-hype/
Anonymous threatens to DDOS root Internet servers
An upcoming campaign announced by the hacking group Anonymous directed against the Internet's core address lookup system is unlikely to cause much ...
www.networkworld.com/.../022012-anonymous-threatens-to-...
Hackers dog LA police canine association
Members of hacker group Anonymous took credit Thursday for an online raid of the Los... The hackers claimed to have gotten the addresses of more than 1000 ...
www.physorg.com/.../2012-02-hackers-dog-la-police-canine.h...
PDF Malware Writers Keep Targeting Vulnerability | Symantec ...
We keep seeing new waves of PDF file-based attacks that exploit the Adobe Acrobat and Reader CVE-2010-0188 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (BID ...
www.symantec.com/.../pdf-malware-writers-keep-targeting-vu...
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