Facebook criticised for hurting cybercrime investigation

Facebook criticised for 'hurting' cybercrime investigation
Telegraph.co.uk
The anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab criticised Facebook's strategy at a cyber securityconference. Stefan Tanase, a senior security researcher with the firm, and part of an international working group collaborated for two years to track down the Koobface ...

Telegraph.co.uk

UK cyber security skills are 'wholly inadequate', says former security minister
ITworld.com
By Anh Nguyen, Computerworld UK | Security Add a new comment February 08, 2012, 3:14 AM — The UK needs to significantly bolster its cyber security skills to fight against cyber threats, according to former security minister Baroness Pauline ...

OVERNIGHT TECH: Telecom subpanel tackles cybersecurity
The Hill (blog)
By Brendan Sasso and Gautham Nagesh - 02/07/12 05:49 PM ET THE LEDE: The House Energy and Commerce telecom subpanel will hold a hearing Wednesday morning on the cybersecuritythreat to the nation's communications networks. The House has recently begun ...

Hearing Highlights Disagreement Over Cybersecurity Incentives vs. Regulation
National Journal
By Josh Smith Even as Congress takes up broad cybersecurity legislation, witnesses at a House subcommittee hearing will highlight continued disagreement over just how to reduce cyberthreats. With cyberthreats increasing daily, laws and regulations have ...

RBA steps up cyber security
Mozo.com.au
Cyber security specialists have been drafted in by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) as it vies to limit its exposure to online criminals and activists. The bank, which has just decided to hold interest rates at 4.25 per cent, warned that hackers ...

Cyber Security Hiring Grows only 2% during Last 3 Months of 2011
PR Web (press release)
Hiring for cyber security skills in the last quarter of 2011 grew just 2% compared to 2010, with 6400 new job ads posted online, according to WANTED Analytics™. During October, November, and December of 2011, Corporate Recruiters and Staffing Firms ...

PR Web (press release)

Rep raises hope on passage of cyber security law
Vanguard
By Emma Elebeke The long awaited Cyber security law may soon be a reality if the worlds of House committee Committee on Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Hon. Ibrahim Shehu Gusau is anything to go by. This is as Hon.

How Next Generation Firewall Provide The Cyber Security
Business 2 Community
By Adams Johnson, Published February 8, 2012 With the rise in cyber security threats, innovative techniques were introduced to provide protective shield to the users and their internet connections. Working uninterruptedly online is every user's goal ...

Hacking into the future
The Hindu
He is an MTV Youth Icon, a Global Shaper according to the World Economic Forum and has been chosen as a Global Ambassador for Cyber Security by the Indian Government. Another title he has held for quite a while now is that of being India's youngest ...

The Hindu

AlertEnterprise Heightens Defense against Cyber Threats and Vulnerabilities ...
MarketWatch (press release)
FREMONT, Calif., Feb 07, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- AlertEnterprise, Inc., today announced its sponsorship of cyber security initiatives spearheaded by the National Electric Sector CybersecurityOrganization (NESCO). NESCO is an independent public-private ...

Power grid updates left system vulnerable to cyberattacks, auditors say
Washington Post (blog)
Inspector General Gregory H. Friedman found “shortcomings” in the cybersecurity plans of more than a third of the utility companies that got federal funding for “smart grid” projects — from incomplete strategies to prevent an attack to vague steps for ...

Police bolster attack on cyber crime
Financial Times
It is hoped the regional commands will help to strengthen the country's defences in the lead-up to the National Crime Agency – a new FBI-style body – assuming formal control of the cyber securitystrategy when it starts work in 2013.

South Korean researchers warn of stepped up cyberattacks from the North
Infosecurity Magazine (US)
South Korea's information operations condition (INFOCON), which measures the cybersecuritythreat level to the country, was raised in response to the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. A data breach at South Korean online gamer Nexon has exposed ...

EU cyber-defence push wins crucial MEP vote
ZDNet UK (blog)
The EU's security agency is on the way to getting more muscle to help it keep member states'cybersecurity up to scratch. MEPs in the Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE) passed a proposal by 52 to 3 on Monday to strengthen and extend the ...

NCS Seeks Action on Cyber Law
AllAfrica.com
By Emeka Aginam, 8 February 2012 The Nigerian Computer Society, (NCS) has among other things advocated the passage of cyber security legislation to provide legal backing and confidence to fighting cyber crime. Having the right legal and regulatory ...

Business Notes
Annapolis Capital
Representatives from banking, cyber security and the federal government will discuss opportunities for business and jobs Friday in a series of workshops at Anne Arundel Community College. AP VIDEO more>> David S. Dobbs, vice president of the IT & Cyber ...

The Private Sector Responds to Cyber Threats
C-SPAN
The House Energy Subcmte. on Communications and Technology begins an "aggressive review" of cybersecurity policies as outlined by Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR). According to a press release from the Subcmte., the hearing will focus on "the supply chain ...

C-SPAN

Verizon Foundation Awarded More Than $699000 in Community Grants in 2011 to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Delaware Center for Education Technology Cyber Security Awareness Campaign for its Internet safety presentations to Delaware elementary schools. Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence for the organization's annual Purple Ribbon public awareness ...

Missoula's TerraEchos receives $1.55M in venture capital funding
The Missoulian
Flywheel Ventures, based in New Mexico, announced the investment Tuesday, calling the funds "seed financing" to help TerraEchos continue innovation in the cyber security arena. The focus of the funds is "Kairos" - a technology grown out of TerraEchos' ...

SOURCEFIRE APPOINTS COMPUTERLINKS IN THE UK
SourceWire (press release)
Wokingham, UK – 8th February, 2012 -- Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE), a leader in intelligentcybersecurity solutions, today announced that it has signed COMPUTERLINKS, the next generation distributor of IT security, network performance and internet ...

Patriot Technologies Launches Reorganized Professional Services Division
MarketWatch (press release)
"Cyber security threats to our customers are increasing at an alarming pace," said Bruce Tucker, President and Founder of Patriot Technologies. "Our approach to mitigating risk through continuous monitoring and compliance will help deter these growing ...

Minister for Crime and Security to speak at ASIS Europe 2012
Info4Security
James Brokenshire MP - the UK minister for crime and security - will speak on cyber security at the ASIS European Security Conference and Exhibition in London during April. By Brian Sims Before entering Parliament, Brokenshire was a partner at a large ...

LogRhythm strikes pan-European distribution deal with Exclusive Networks
RealWire (press release)
Exclusive Networks will manage the distribution of LogRhythm's award-winning cyber securityplatform across Europe, offering the solution as a key part of its comprehensive security product portfolio to its c5000 active partners in the region.

Qosmos Selects Coverity Development Testing to Ensure Software Quality for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
A real-time view of events is crucial for a wide variety of mission critical applications such as cyber security, network traffic optimization, and Quality of Service management. Qosmos software is very complex with over one million lines of code.

Series of Monmouth College events includes McMullen Lecture in Biology
Monmouth Daily Review Atlas
MC professor Marjorie Bond will introduce the next Great Decisions topic, “Cybersecurity,” on Feb. 15 at 7:30 pm in the Tartan Room of Stockdale Center. Following her opening remarks, there will be approximately one hour of group discussion.

Staff editorial: An unresolved risk
Diamondback Online
But Michael Hicks, a computer science professor and director of the university's MarylandCybersecurity Center, thinks two years should be enough to move about 8 million records — not 8000. "To me, it sounds like a job that should take substantially ...

NCSSM students present at White House Science Fair
Durham Herald Sun
Ada Taylor of Durham, Katrina Gutierrez of Charlotte and Greeshma Somashekar of Cary – all seniors at NCSSM – were recognized by the president at the White House Science Fair for their 2011 grand prize in the cyber-security category at the Conrad ...

Computer Sciences swings to loss on write-down
MarketWatch
The company has been diversifying its business in areas like cybersecurity and health-care amid continuing uncertainty surrounding US government spending. In the latest period, its North American Public Sector segment, its second-largest business by ...

Strategy for defending cyberspace is mind-boggling
Colorado Springs Gazette
The symposium, which features experts from across the nation in cyber security, amounts to a rapid-fire think tank of defense department officials offering tips on how to tailor programs to the military, and contractors offering ideas on new programs ...

Adm. Fallon speaks Wed. about 'Media & International Relations'
DavidsonNews.net (blog)
His Naval service gave him insider knowledge of cyber security's role in protecting communications and critical assets, and he has created a second career in that field. He currently serves as chair of the board of CounterTack Inc., a cyber security ...

DavidsonNews.net (blog)

The Theme Continues – Internet Déjà Vu
Infosecurity Magazine (US) (blog)
This driven by statements of a Government Minister who said “we need to speed up work on cyber security because the public and the vast swath of business have yet to appreciate the threats posed by online crime”, I presume, suggesting that government ...

Let us join hands to make Internet safe
China Daily
Online security experts have pointed out many of China's weak points in cyber security, especially its heavy dependence on Western core technology and low self-defense capacity. The vulnerability of China's cyberspace has hardly improved in the past ...

China Daily

Veracode and Security Innovations to Lead Webinar on Building an Application ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Who: Jim Lynch, product manager, Veracode Fred Pinkett, vice president of product management, Security Innovations What: As cyber security challenges continue unabated, organizations must take a more holistic approach to application security.

eIQnetworks Continues Momentum with Another Record Quarter
MarketWatch (press release)
"In fact, one in five global 5000 companies have already lost the cyber security war. The record growth of eIQ's SecureVue unified situational awareness platform is attributed to organizations realizing that today's cyber attacks and APTs cannot be ...

Homeland (Cyber)Security? – Congress moves toward giving DHS ...
By Eileen McGuire-Mahony
H.R. 3674 passed the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies and was passed to the full Committee on Homeland Security. Now, those of you who have ever navigated a government website or ...
Peoples Press Collective

UK cyber security skills are 'wholly inadequate', says former security ...
By Blackmere
The UK needs to significantly bolster its cyber security skills to fight against cyber threats, according to former security minister Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones. Neville-Jones, who is now the government's Special Representative to Business ...
Blackmere Consulting

Military Cyber Security | CyberMaryland – IT Security & Innovation
By AWinters
Military Cyber Security March 7-9, 2012. Washington, DC. OVER 25 Military,Government & Industry Experts: OUSD-P, USCYBERCOM, NETCOM/9TH SIGNAL, 24th AF, Army G6, ARCYBER, DPAP, PMW-130 USN, DISA PEO-IAN, DHS, NSA, ...
CyberMaryland - IT Security & Innovation

Cybersecurity hearing – CNN.com Live
By jdinan8271
All start times and events subject to change and stream availability. America's Choice 2012: Maine GOP caucus. The race to the Republican presidential nomination continues Saturday with the Maine caucus. CNN.com Live will have up-to-the ...
CNN.com Live

Fortinet supports government leadership in the creation of a national ...
Fortinet supports government leadership in the creation of a national cyber security body to combat malicious threats. Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) − a world leader in high-performance network security − today announced that it has sponsored and. ..
NationMultimedia.com - Technology

US: Bill Would Give DHS Broader Control of Cybersecurity, Follows ...
In December of last year I covered a study conducted by MIT with the help of "advisers" from the exact corporations which would benefit from the implementation of the recommendations of the report, and now it appears that these ideas have ...
Signs of the Times

Reid, Dems secretly push another internet control bill | American ...
By Joel McDurmon
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, following a recent anti-piracy legislative debacle with SOPA and PIPA, will lead his second effort of 2012 to push Internet-regulating legislation, this time in the form of a new cybersecurity bill. The expected ...
American Vision News

Automation IT: Uninterruptible power supplies and cybersecurity | ISA
Hackers can remotely power down critical automation.
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For journalists, cyber-security training slow to take hold - Blog ...
For centuries, journalists have been willing to go to prison to protect their sources . Back in 1848, New York Herald correspondent John Nugent spent a month in ...
cpj.org/.../for-journalists-cyber-security-training-slow-to-ta.ph...

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