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The Hill was way ahead of him, with over 50 cybersecurity bills introduced this Congress. This week, both the House and Senate are moving on their versions of consolidated, comprehensive legislation. The reason cybersecurity legislation is so pressing, ...
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Genetics inspire cyber-security research
Wake Forest University News Center
When addressing the ever-changing and growing concern of cyber security, nature is their blueprint and biology is their inspiration. Now they are fighting the continual evolution of viruses, worms and malware with evolution.
Wake Forest University News Center
The Circuit: Google-Motorola gets nod from EU, FCC hearing, cybersecurity
Washington Post (blog)
Cybersecurity: The Senate will be focused on cybersecurity this week, with two hearings coming Thursday on cybersecurity issues. Ahead of a hearing from the Senate Homeland Security Committee, The Hill reported that Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) ...
Philips investigates possible cyber security breach
Reuters
By Roberta Cowan | AMSTERDAM Feb 14 (Reuters) - Philips Electronics said it shut down one of its servers on Monday because of a possible cyber attack and that it was investigating the nature and extent of the information that might have been accessed.
SOPA not part of cybersecurity bill, spokesman says
msnbc.com
By Suzanne Choney One website says that a new piracy bill will reappear as part of a broadercybersecurity bill to be proposed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). Details about the bill are "shrouded in secrecy," says The Daily Caller.
Senate cybersecurity bill would let firms appeal regulations
The Hill (blog)
The leadership of the Senate Homeland Security Committee will introduce a comprehensivecybersecurity bill on Tuesday that would allow firms to appeal whether new security regulations should apply to their sector. The legislation would task the ...
Glimmerglass Demonstrates Breakthroughs in Cyber Security at ISS World Middle ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Glimmerglass will present CyberSweep and CyberSweep Path Manager to members of the Law Enforcement, Cyber Security and Defense communities. The CyberSweep platform enables dynamic selection of optical signal sources and the extraction and monitoring of ...
Innovations that Bring New Benefits also Bring New Security Risks, CompTIA ...
MarketWatch (press release)
One of the biggest factors driving cybersecurity concerns today is the greater interconnectivity of devices, systems and users, the survey reveals. Among the disruptive IT trends contributing to greater interconnectivity - and raising new security ...
2013 IT budget focuses on cybersecurity
Federal Times
The cybersecurity budget would fund DoD's offensive and defensive cyber operations and defense of national security and critical infrastructure. The Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division would receive $769 million for its ...
Washoe County chosen for federal cyber security training
FoxReno.com
RENO -- Washoe County, Clark County and the State of Nevada competed with many other states for the opportunity to have the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS) perform a cyber security assessment for Nevada.
The Great Cybersecurity Carve Out?
Lawfare (blog)
by Paul Rosenzweig The most critical (no pun intended) portion of the soon-to-be-introduced (and newly renamed) Lieberman-Collins-Rockefeller-Carper (“LCRC”) cybersecurity bill (hearings scheduled for Thursday – bill text to be introduced “soon”) will ...
Take precaution to provide cybersecurity
Chanute Tribune
His informative program was on identity theft and cybersecurity. “The thing that I would say in general about identity theft and cybersecurity and all that is use a big dose of common sense.” Fairchild said that it is important to know privacy settings ...
Pentagon expected to increase spending on cyber security
Washington Times
By Shaun Waterman Cyber security is expected to be one of the few areas of defense spending that will increase next year, as the Pentagon rolls out its budget numbers for 2013 on Monday. Although the full figure will not be released until later in the ...
Washington Times
East Africa seeks to curb cybercrime in financial sector
Business Daily Africa
Efforts to curb increased cybercrime within Africa's financial institutions have gained momentum with a major banking cyber security conference set for next month in Kigali, Rwanda. File Efforts to curb increased cybercrime within Africa's financial ...
Business Daily Africa
Obama Budget Promises Stronger Infosec
GovInfoSecurity.com
Credit Eligible President Obama's budget - his election-year plan on how he would spend federal dollars in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 - calls for the strengthening of government cybersecurity while reducing overall information technology ...
GovInfoSecurity.com
Northrop Grumman Foundation Congratulates CyberPatriot IV Finalists
MarketWatch (press release)
CyberPatriot, established by the Air Force Association, is the nation's largest and fastest growing high school cyber defense competition created to inspire high school students toward careers incybersecurity or other science, technology, ...
GovWin Recon: Feb. 14: Fiscal 2013 Budget Proposal Impacts
govWin (blog)
Cybersecurity will be a focus, as the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber SecurityDivision would receive $769 million for its operations. [For additional early analysis of the budget impacts on government IT contractors, join Deltek's Ray ...
Cybercrooks exploit V-Day spirit
Times of India
Cyber security experts have already noticed a scam on Facebook that leverages people's mood to celebrate this day of love and romance. The attack begins with a post on affected users' walls, inviting other users to install a Valentine's theme into ...
15 Percent of Vendors, Utilities Not Testing for Grid Security
Greentech Media (blog)
“Cyber security awareness is low; it is important,” KEMA said of the findings, “but not a main concern.” In many ways, the findings are nothing new. A GTM Research Report released last August, The Smart Utility Enterprise 2011-2015, concluded that “GTM ...
Greentech Media (blog)
Securing Our Nation's Cyberspace
National Science Foundation (press release)
Cybersecurity has become one of the most serious economic and national security threats to our nation. Corporations, agencies, national infrastructure, and individuals have all been victims of cyber-attacks. Securing our nation's cyberspace requires ...
Researcher: DOJ, Congress drop ball on surveillance reports
Bayoubuzz
A new discovery by a cybersecurity researcher indicates that, for five years, Congress did not ask the Department of Justice for its reports of surveillance, nor did the DOJ submit those findings — even though they're required by law to do so.
Obama's 2013 Budget: Full of Tech and Science
Mashable
Specifically, the plan calls for an enhancement of all existing Department of Defense cybersecurityprograms, both defensive and offensive. $769 million would head to the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division to help ...
CACI Executive Vice President Dan Porter Selected to Federal 100 Industry Leaders
MarketWatch (press release)
As a center where real-time, hands-on access to technologies and solutions is available in a collaborative environment, the Lab enables government and industry to come together to develop unique solutions to emerging cybersecurity threats.
Tsongas to Fitchburg-area business leaders: I can help district push its 'vision'
Sentinel and Enterprise
Stephen DiNatale were present at the meeting, held at cybersecurity firm mZeal. Also at the meeting were representatives of about a dozen manufacturing firms, including David Garrison, CFO of Micron Integrated Technologies in Fitchburg; Alfred Cotton, ...
2013 budget proposal puts IT on short leash
FCW.com
“These savings help enable increased funding for core homeland security functions such ascybersecurity, border protection and aviation security.” The largest new program proposed for DHS is $1 billion to spur new firefighter hiring nationwide, ...
Expert: US Must “Modernize” Cyber Defense Strategy
Security Management
He noted one estimate that the private sector will spend $80 billion on cyber security in 2011; by comparison, the Department of Homeland Security's entire spending request for 2012 is just $57 billion. But the current sophistication and frequency of ...
Summary Judgments for Feb. 14
Thomson Reuters News & Insight
This time around, the fight is over a proposed cyber-security bill, which The Hill reports will be introduced in the Senate's Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday. The goal of the legislation is to protect major infrastructure - think nuclear plants ...
Former White House tech guru talks technology
ABC Online
When you think about the world we live in today, of course you need to put in place measures that will advance the cyber security posture of any organisation, whether that is public or private. TICKY FULLERTON: You are a big fan of the "cloud", ...
ITT Exelis Wins $160 Million Information Technology Contract
MarketWatch (press release)
Exelis is also responsible for operating the Army Europe Facility Control Office, performing information assurance and cybersecurity, and maintaining satellite communication terminals in deployed locations. This work will be performed in multiple ...
Actuate Named "Top Solution Provider to Watch for in 2012" in GOVTek Awards
MarketWatch (press release)
... were evaluated and voted on by GTRA Council Members and their community peers and given recognition in the areas most relevant to government IT today including social media, infrastructure, leadership, cyber security, green IT, and transparency.
Technolog - SOPA not part of cybersecurity bill, spokesman says
By Suzanne Choney
Updated 2:15 pm PT When we last heard of SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, it was being carted away to the federal legislation junk heap, along with a sister bill, PIPA, the Protect IP Act, two bills killed by public pressure and an Internet ...
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Is cyberwar the new yellowcake, fueling a cybersecurity-industial ...
By Georgetown CNSL
02/14/12: Wired reports that in last month's State of the Union address, President Obama called on Congress to pass “legislation that will secure our country from the growing dangers of cyber threats.” The Hill was way ahead of him, with over ...
Georgetown Security Law Brief
Rwanda To Host Cyber Security Workshop « Nkpuhe
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Rwanda To Host Cyber Security Workshop. February 14, 2012. Efforts to curb increased incidences of cyber crime within Africa's financial institutions have received a bo … http://p.ost.im/p/e9VMaN ...
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Glimmerglass Demonstrates Breakthroughs in Cyber Security at ISS ...
Next generation optical cyber solutions, CyberSweep™ and CyberSweep Path Manager™, will be presented to Middle East and African Law Enforcement and the Cyber Security Community | Virtual Strategy Magazine is an online publication ...
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Glimmerglass Demonstrates Breakthroughs in Cyber Security at ISS ...
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Glimmerglass Demonstrates Breakthroughs in Cyber Security at ISS World Middle East and Africa 2012 – TMCnet ... at ISS World Middle East and Africa 2012 – TMCnet · John McEnroe entertains in SAP Open exhibition – San Jose Mercury News · John McEnroe entertains in SAP Open exhibition – San Jose Mercury News · Obama Budget Calls for Cuts in Spending for U.S. Technology – Businessweek · Herrera-Flanigan: Time for Congress to Act on Cybersecurity – Roll Call Online ...
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Pentagon expected to increase spending on cybersecurity
Pentagon expected to increase spending on cybersecurity. published about 8 hours ago.Cybersecurity is expected to be one of the few areas of defense spending that will increase next year, as the Pentagon rolls out its budget numbers for ...
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Senators to Re-Introduce Cybersecurity Legislation to Protect ...
By LawUpdates.com, LLC
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee began holding hearings oncybersecurity in the late 1990s, long before the Committee's jurisdiction expanded to cover homeland security. In 2010, the 111st Congress, ...
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Pentagon expected to increase spending on cybersecurity
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Cybersecurity is expected to be one of the few areas of defense spending that will increase next year, as the Pentagon rolls out its budget numbers for 2013 on Monday. Although the full figure will not be released until later in the day, ...
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Winston TECH Salem: Genetics inspire cyber-security research at ...
By Kevin Cox
Genetics inspire cyber-security research at Wake Forest. The fight against computer viruses and other threats is taking a new direction at Wake Forest University. Erinn Fulp and Michael Crouse are fighting the continual evolution of viruses, ...
Winston TECH Salem
Banking and Cyber Security workshop set for Rwanda ...
By In2EastAfrica
Efforts to curb increased cyber crime within Africa's financial institutions have received a boost with the planned Banking Cyber Security Workshop set for March 23 at Kigali's Serena Hotel in Rwanda. The one-day meeting, a partnership ...
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Top military expert to hold a 'Chinese Cyber Security Threat ...
Ely, England, 13 February 2012 – The SCADA & Smart Grid Cyber Security Summit 2012 will see industry experts and many of the top utility companies from across Europe discuss the latest technologies and solutions for cybersecurity.
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Nortel Networks Hack and SEC Guidance | IT Policy Compliance
By jim hurley
SEC guidance on cybersecurity risks and incidents. In a little-noticed section of the article, the Siobhan Gorman mentions the new guidance from the SEC requiring public firms to disclose Cyber-security risks and incidents. Written on October ...
IT Policy Compliance
Xi Jinping's Visit Amidst a Rattling of Cyber Sabers
By Gregory Foster
Being a sequence of quotations from contemporary articles contextualizing the visit of the rising Vice President of China amidst a conspicuously timed introduction of unprecedented domesticcybersecurity legislation. National Post Full Comment (Feb ... $769 million from Congress. The funding would go toward the National Cyber Security Division for protecting federal networks and coordinating with the private sector on safeguarding critical infrastructure systems such as utility grids.
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With SOPA Shelved, Congress Readies its Next Attack on the ...
By Participatory-Politics-Foundation
Not surprisingly, with SOPA and PIPA indefinitely shelved, some members of Congress are getting ready to introduce a new internet power grab bill. The bill, which is still in draft form, is called the “Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2012 ...
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