The Hill (blog)
Senior administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and FBI Director Robert Mueller, performed a classified demonstration of how the government would respond to a cyber attack on the New York City electrical grid in ...
Fake Google Play Websites Emerge After Recent Launch
About - News & Issues
The security company go on to say, "this attack shows just how quick cyber criminals can adapt to the fast-changing mobile landscape. Users are strongly advised to practice extreme caution when dealing with apps and app stores in general".
Cyber frontier in fight against crime
BBC News
These are the issues under discussion at Queen's University's second annual World Cyber Security Summit in Belfast. The keynote speaker is Eugene Kaspersky, a Russian expert who founded Europe's largest anti-virus company. He said cyber-crime is ...
BBC News
Irishman who deciphered the cyber-virus attack on Iran
Irish Times
He became the cyber sleuth who deciphered the Stuxnet virus that sabotaged the Iranian nuclear programme. Ó Murchú first became aware of Stuxnet in June 2010, when a Belarus company working in Iran alerted other computer security professionals of its ...
FusionX: Persistent Cyber Risk Management for the Enterprise ...
By admin
I know them well and consider them to be among the most trusted actors in cyber security. Their methods and models help enterprises discover and mitigate risk and enhance overall securityposture. Here is a bit more on what they do: Cyber ...
CTOlist.com
Despite town meeting votes, Smart meters ready for rollout | Wake ...
By jesse
However, Clerk of the Vermont Public Service Board, Susan Hudson, said that an investigation was currently underway that was examining the health risks and security and privacy issues posed by the use of smart meters. ... “[The] US Inspector General and The Washington Post said grants to encourage the smart meters were hasty and the utilities were not equipped to preventcyber attacks nor to protect personal data that is being transmitted now in a wireless fashion through radio ...
Wake Up Opt Out
Britain launches social media channels for Iranians
By Andy Sennitt
BBC Director-General Mark Thompson said on Wednesday that the broadcaster had suffered a sophisticated cyber-attack following a campaign by Iranian authorities against its Persian service, although he stopped short of explicitly accusing ...
Media Network
Russian criminals behind cyber attack on NU.nl | Cyber Warzone
The cyber attack was made on Wednesday afternoon news NU.nl, is very likely a specific action from Russia. Published Friday that an analysis of Fox IT security ...
www.cyberwarzone.com/.../russian-criminals-behind-cyber-att...
Obama's Proposed Cybersecurity Law Draws Criticism
Criminal Justice Degree Schools
by Justin Davis on March 18, 2012 President Barack Obama's recent mock cyber attack on New York City's power infrastructure to support his new cybersecuritybill may have gotten the attention of legislators, but it has privacy advocates once again ...
Criminal Justice Degree Schools
Tucson Great Decisions Association meeting on cybersecurity
Tucson Citizen
Faced with challenges such as international cybercrime and authoritarian control of networks, how will the US and its democratic allies approach the cyber frontier? How does this new domain figure in US strategic interests?
USS Missouri ready for Navy's new mission
TheDay.com
Submarines can confuse the systems that adversaries rely on, from the cyber realm to the sensors that attempt to track military ships and aircraft. The submarine, Breckenridge said, has "come to the table at the right time, given the challenges we face ...
British Govt in censorship spat with Iran
TV3.ie
The BBC also reported that it had suffered a cyber-attack on Wednesday by Iranian authorities against its Persian service. Iran had previously accused British media regulator, Ofcom of banning its state-run news channel Press TV in Britain earlier this ...
TV3.ie
UK says Iran blocking website in censorship battle
Reuters
Britain's public service broadcaster, the BBC, said on Wednesday it had suffered a sophisticatedcyber-attack following a campaign by Iranian authorities against its Persian service. Hague said the website (ukforiranians.fco.gov.uk/en in English and ...
Facebook 'friends' can wreck your life
Deccan Chronicle
A distant relative of Veena (name changed), who wanted to avenge his spurned love, launched acyber defamatory attack posting morphed pictures of her with another man and of her husband with another woman. He seems to have got into the FB account of ...
We prefer to keep daughter on the reality side of technical divide
TheNewsTribune.com
We don't want her to have to worry about inappropriate photos, adult conversations and cyber-bullying ever – especially in fifth grade. Some of my daughter's classmates have had cellphones since second grade. I know because a bunch of them whipped ...
Six National Television Stations of Iran Hacked | The Hacker News ...
By THN Reporter
... Television Stations of Iran Hacked. THN Magazine and The Hacker News is Most Comprehensive resource in providing news related to Information Technology, Cyber security, infosec, Hacking threads, Vulnerability. ... This attack follows various tactics by the Iranian government, such as harassment, arrests, and threats against the relatives of BBC Persia correspondents who still live in Iran, in an effort to force the journalists to quit the Persian news service. Hacked Sites List: ...
The Hacker News [ THN ] - Updates...
Tech Thoughts Daily Net News – March 18, 2012 | Bill Mullins ...
By Bill Mullins
BBC blames cyber-attack on Iran – The BBC has revealed that it was the target of a sophisticated cyber-attack believed to have originated in Iran. Tech Thoughts .... Tagged as Bill Mullins, downloads, latest, news, security, tech, Tech Thoughts ...
Bill Mullins' Weblog - Tech Thoughts
Syria e-mail hack points to new level of “information war ...
By Reuters
“That could possibly be a significant turning point in the development of cyber warfare.” Somesecurity experts doubt Syria's fragmented opposition would have had the capacity to access the e-mails without outside help, but others say those in ...
Dubai Business | Kippreport»...
Chemical Facility Security News: Congressional Hearings – Week of ...
By PJCoyle
The House is back from a week on the home front and the Senate is done with their transportation bill, but there still isn't much on the hearing schedule that looks to be of much interest to the chemical- and cyber-security communities; just one ... I would suppose that the argument is that, with less production capacity in this high-population area, any successful terrorist attack on a refinery would have large economic consequences beyond the 'mere' cost of off-site casualties and ...
Chemical Facility Security News
On Legal Challenges to Advancing Cybersecurity « Marvin Ammori
Gary Brown*, on the topic of “Legal Challenges to Advancing Cybersecurity.” The purpose of the discussion was to highlight some of the lessons learned from a ...
ammori.org/.../on-legal-challenges-to-advancing-cybersecurity...
Follow @sobeqorg
About - News & Issues
The security company go on to say, "this attack shows just how quick cyber criminals can adapt to the fast-changing mobile landscape. Users are strongly advised to practice extreme caution when dealing with apps and app stores in general".
Cyber frontier in fight against crime
BBC News
These are the issues under discussion at Queen's University's second annual World Cyber Security Summit in Belfast. The keynote speaker is Eugene Kaspersky, a Russian expert who founded Europe's largest anti-virus company. He said cyber-crime is ...
BBC News
Irishman who deciphered the cyber-virus attack on Iran
Irish Times
He became the cyber sleuth who deciphered the Stuxnet virus that sabotaged the Iranian nuclear programme. Ó Murchú first became aware of Stuxnet in June 2010, when a Belarus company working in Iran alerted other computer security professionals of its ...
Expert warns on cyberwar threat
UPI.com
Eugene Kaspersky, chief executive officer co-founder of Kaspersky Lab -- which says it is the largest antivirus company in Europe -- made the remarks Friday at the World Cyber SecurityTechnology Research Summit at Queen's University Belfast.
DARPA switches to cyber offense
FederalNewsRadio.com
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is switching to offense on the cyber field. DARPA Director Regina Dugan said new research will address military-specific ways to actually create cyber threats, not just develop ways to defend against them.
US, UK hammer out cyber defense partnership
Defense Systems
Among the topics addressed were cybersecurity information sharing – within the two nation's independently and with each other collectively – cyber threat research and development, and the importance of maintaining the individual's right to privacy ...
FusionX: Persistent Cyber Risk Management for the Enterprise
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
I know them well and consider them to be among the most trusted actors in cyber security. Their methods and models help enterprises discover and mitigate risk and enhance overallsecurity posture. Cyber Risk Management: FusionX has years of proven past ...
'Cyber attack on NU.nl came from Russia'
Radio Netherlands
A spokesperson for security company Fox-IT confirmed on Friday evening that this was the result of an analysis it carried out. NU.nl has advised people who visited the web site between 1130 and 1230 on Wednesday morning to check their computers for ...
Iran's Censors Tighten Grip
Wall Street Journal
Iran also announced in the past week that its "Cyber Army," as it styles its legion of government hackers and bloggers, has reached 120000, a number impossible to corroborate but well above previous tallies. In an annual report released Monday, ...
Wall Street Journal
Iran Builds Technical Infrastructures for Local Emails
Fars News Agency
Iran's cyber defense headquarters succeeded in making internal mail servers which would enable Iranian organizations and bodies to use local email addresses. "One of the most important problems in the cyber arena in Iran is that many individuals and ...
Fars News Agency
The Week in Review
Escapist Magazine
This week we learn that Iran is cyber-bullying the BBC, Obsidian was one point away from payday and the Elder Scrolls may be going online in a massive way. Mass Effect 3's day-one DLC, From Ashes, has been somewhat of a hot topic for gamers amidst the ...
White House wants feedback on "moving target" cybersecurity techniques
Infosecurity Magazine
The White House, along with the Departments of Energy and Homeland Security, have launched an initiative to develop a maturity model that will help utilities analyze cybersecuritygaps. The White House has officially launched the Federal Risk and ...
The News Matrix: Saturday 17 March 2012
The Independent
Two people were injured in the attack, and were being treated at a hospital in Benghazi. Room-mate faces jail for cyber-snooping A former student faces prison after being found guilty ofcyber-snooping on his gay room mate who later jumped to his death ...
Toronto conference discusses Internet control
ITWorld Canada
“Cyber security issues are extremely important to government,” he said this week. “Both in the US and Canada we're seeing a lot of discussion about how to improve public-private partnerships on cybersecurity.” For his part, it will provide an ...
Former CIA, NSA director shares his perceptions of 'electronic underworld'
Newark Post
However, while the United States and a few other countries spy to “protect your liberty, protect your security and promote your safety,” Hayden said, most other countries steal data for commercial purposes. Hayden also addressed the emergence of cyber ...
How the Conflict Between Israel and Iran Could Spark a Global Recession
Slate Magazine
The current war of words is escalating, as is the covert war that Israel and the United States are allegedly engaging in with Iran (including killings of nuclear scientists and use of cyber-warfare to damage nuclear facilities).
Slate Magazine
It takes courage to ask the right questions
New Straits Times
"CAP has never meant to defame, attack or criticise anyone. We only want to make Penang people more conscious and aware of various issues. "For that, I have been referred to as an old man while their cyber troopers have resorted to calling me all kinds ...
Footage of youths beating up foreign laborer goes viral
Taipei Times
After the clip went viral, incensed Netizens denounced the beating and called for a cyber-manhunt to identify the alleged attackers. The clip was pulled from the video-sharing Web site YouTube at about 7pm on Wednesday, because of violations of the ...
Sich: The present nuclear threat in Iran
Newsday
If the Bushehr plant suffers a severe accident -- whether from the Iranian government's reckless push for operations, low safety levels, a severe seismic event, a cyber attack, or all of the above, as the Japanese can attest -- the Iranians may not ...
Newsday
Lockheed Martin Vice President Sonya Stewart Named a Top Minority Business ...
Sacramento Bee
It is responsible for IT systems and services in areas such as energy, healthcare, transportation, information and cyber security, citizen protection and space exploration. Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security and ...
Linda Webb: Fraud fighter
Orlando Sentinel
You can't really, because a lot of fraud is committed through cyber means, and hacking. Organized crime rings identify innocent people who are tempted by money to work for them. What are some of your fraud-fighting experiences?
Anti-virus experts in red alert over new breed of cyber attack on ...
By Lynsey
Anti-virus experts in red alert over new breed of cyber attack on Windows PCs. A new cyber attack found on Chinese websites can overwhelm Windows PCs - and the only way to stop it is to ensure your machine has the latest security 'patch'.
The Coming Crisis
UPI.com
Eugene Kaspersky, chief executive officer co-founder of Kaspersky Lab -- which says it is the largest antivirus company in Europe -- made the remarks Friday at the World Cyber SecurityTechnology Research Summit at Queen's University Belfast.
DARPA switches to cyber offense
FederalNewsRadio.com
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is switching to offense on the cyber field. DARPA Director Regina Dugan said new research will address military-specific ways to actually create cyber threats, not just develop ways to defend against them.
US, UK hammer out cyber defense partnership
Defense Systems
Among the topics addressed were cybersecurity information sharing – within the two nation's independently and with each other collectively – cyber threat research and development, and the importance of maintaining the individual's right to privacy ...
FusionX: Persistent Cyber Risk Management for the Enterprise
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
I know them well and consider them to be among the most trusted actors in cyber security. Their methods and models help enterprises discover and mitigate risk and enhance overallsecurity posture. Cyber Risk Management: FusionX has years of proven past ...
'Cyber attack on NU.nl came from Russia'
Radio Netherlands
A spokesperson for security company Fox-IT confirmed on Friday evening that this was the result of an analysis it carried out. NU.nl has advised people who visited the web site between 1130 and 1230 on Wednesday morning to check their computers for ...
Iran's Censors Tighten Grip
Wall Street Journal
Iran also announced in the past week that its "Cyber Army," as it styles its legion of government hackers and bloggers, has reached 120000, a number impossible to corroborate but well above previous tallies. In an annual report released Monday, ...
Wall Street Journal
Iran Builds Technical Infrastructures for Local Emails
Fars News Agency
Iran's cyber defense headquarters succeeded in making internal mail servers which would enable Iranian organizations and bodies to use local email addresses. "One of the most important problems in the cyber arena in Iran is that many individuals and ...
Fars News Agency
The Week in Review
Escapist Magazine
This week we learn that Iran is cyber-bullying the BBC, Obsidian was one point away from payday and the Elder Scrolls may be going online in a massive way. Mass Effect 3's day-one DLC, From Ashes, has been somewhat of a hot topic for gamers amidst the ...
White House wants feedback on "moving target" cybersecurity techniques
Infosecurity Magazine
The White House, along with the Departments of Energy and Homeland Security, have launched an initiative to develop a maturity model that will help utilities analyze cybersecuritygaps. The White House has officially launched the Federal Risk and ...
The News Matrix: Saturday 17 March 2012
The Independent
Two people were injured in the attack, and were being treated at a hospital in Benghazi. Room-mate faces jail for cyber-snooping A former student faces prison after being found guilty ofcyber-snooping on his gay room mate who later jumped to his death ...
Toronto conference discusses Internet control
ITWorld Canada
“Cyber security issues are extremely important to government,” he said this week. “Both in the US and Canada we're seeing a lot of discussion about how to improve public-private partnerships on cybersecurity.” For his part, it will provide an ...
Former CIA, NSA director shares his perceptions of 'electronic underworld'
Newark Post
However, while the United States and a few other countries spy to “protect your liberty, protect your security and promote your safety,” Hayden said, most other countries steal data for commercial purposes. Hayden also addressed the emergence of cyber ...
How the Conflict Between Israel and Iran Could Spark a Global Recession
Slate Magazine
The current war of words is escalating, as is the covert war that Israel and the United States are allegedly engaging in with Iran (including killings of nuclear scientists and use of cyber-warfare to damage nuclear facilities).
Slate Magazine
It takes courage to ask the right questions
New Straits Times
"CAP has never meant to defame, attack or criticise anyone. We only want to make Penang people more conscious and aware of various issues. "For that, I have been referred to as an old man while their cyber troopers have resorted to calling me all kinds ...
Footage of youths beating up foreign laborer goes viral
Taipei Times
After the clip went viral, incensed Netizens denounced the beating and called for a cyber-manhunt to identify the alleged attackers. The clip was pulled from the video-sharing Web site YouTube at about 7pm on Wednesday, because of violations of the ...
Sich: The present nuclear threat in Iran
Newsday
If the Bushehr plant suffers a severe accident -- whether from the Iranian government's reckless push for operations, low safety levels, a severe seismic event, a cyber attack, or all of the above, as the Japanese can attest -- the Iranians may not ...
Newsday
Lockheed Martin Vice President Sonya Stewart Named a Top Minority Business ...
Sacramento Bee
It is responsible for IT systems and services in areas such as energy, healthcare, transportation, information and cyber security, citizen protection and space exploration. Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security and ...
Linda Webb: Fraud fighter
Orlando Sentinel
You can't really, because a lot of fraud is committed through cyber means, and hacking. Organized crime rings identify innocent people who are tempted by money to work for them. What are some of your fraud-fighting experiences?
Anti-virus experts in red alert over new breed of cyber attack on ...
By Lynsey
Anti-virus experts in red alert over new breed of cyber attack on Windows PCs. A new cyber attack found on Chinese websites can overwhelm Windows PCs - and the only way to stop it is to ensure your machine has the latest security 'patch'.
The Coming Crisis
FusionX: Persistent Cyber Risk Management for the Enterprise ...
By admin
I know them well and consider them to be among the most trusted actors in cyber security. Their methods and models help enterprises discover and mitigate risk and enhance overall securityposture. Here is a bit more on what they do: Cyber ...
CTOlist.com
Despite town meeting votes, Smart meters ready for rollout | Wake ...
By jesse
However, Clerk of the Vermont Public Service Board, Susan Hudson, said that an investigation was currently underway that was examining the health risks and security and privacy issues posed by the use of smart meters. ... “[The] US Inspector General and The Washington Post said grants to encourage the smart meters were hasty and the utilities were not equipped to preventcyber attacks nor to protect personal data that is being transmitted now in a wireless fashion through radio ...
Wake Up Opt Out
Britain launches social media channels for Iranians
By Andy Sennitt
BBC Director-General Mark Thompson said on Wednesday that the broadcaster had suffered a sophisticated cyber-attack following a campaign by Iranian authorities against its Persian service, although he stopped short of explicitly accusing ...
Media Network
Russian criminals behind cyber attack on NU.nl | Cyber Warzone
The cyber attack was made on Wednesday afternoon news NU.nl, is very likely a specific action from Russia. Published Friday that an analysis of Fox IT security ...
www.cyberwarzone.com/.../russian-criminals-behind-cyber-att...
Obama's Proposed Cybersecurity Law Draws Criticism
Criminal Justice Degree Schools
by Justin Davis on March 18, 2012 President Barack Obama's recent mock cyber attack on New York City's power infrastructure to support his new cybersecuritybill may have gotten the attention of legislators, but it has privacy advocates once again ...
Criminal Justice Degree Schools
Tucson Great Decisions Association meeting on cybersecurity
Tucson Citizen
Faced with challenges such as international cybercrime and authoritarian control of networks, how will the US and its democratic allies approach the cyber frontier? How does this new domain figure in US strategic interests?
USS Missouri ready for Navy's new mission
TheDay.com
Submarines can confuse the systems that adversaries rely on, from the cyber realm to the sensors that attempt to track military ships and aircraft. The submarine, Breckenridge said, has "come to the table at the right time, given the challenges we face ...
British Govt in censorship spat with Iran
TV3.ie
The BBC also reported that it had suffered a cyber-attack on Wednesday by Iranian authorities against its Persian service. Iran had previously accused British media regulator, Ofcom of banning its state-run news channel Press TV in Britain earlier this ...
TV3.ie
UK says Iran blocking website in censorship battle
Reuters
Britain's public service broadcaster, the BBC, said on Wednesday it had suffered a sophisticatedcyber-attack following a campaign by Iranian authorities against its Persian service. Hague said the website (ukforiranians.fco.gov.uk/en in English and ...
Facebook 'friends' can wreck your life
Deccan Chronicle
A distant relative of Veena (name changed), who wanted to avenge his spurned love, launched acyber defamatory attack posting morphed pictures of her with another man and of her husband with another woman. He seems to have got into the FB account of ...
We prefer to keep daughter on the reality side of technical divide
TheNewsTribune.com
We don't want her to have to worry about inappropriate photos, adult conversations and cyber-bullying ever – especially in fifth grade. Some of my daughter's classmates have had cellphones since second grade. I know because a bunch of them whipped ...
Six National Television Stations of Iran Hacked | The Hacker News ...
By THN Reporter
... Television Stations of Iran Hacked. THN Magazine and The Hacker News is Most Comprehensive resource in providing news related to Information Technology, Cyber security, infosec, Hacking threads, Vulnerability. ... This attack follows various tactics by the Iranian government, such as harassment, arrests, and threats against the relatives of BBC Persia correspondents who still live in Iran, in an effort to force the journalists to quit the Persian news service. Hacked Sites List: ...
The Hacker News [ THN ] - Updates...
Tech Thoughts Daily Net News – March 18, 2012 | Bill Mullins ...
By Bill Mullins
BBC blames cyber-attack on Iran – The BBC has revealed that it was the target of a sophisticated cyber-attack believed to have originated in Iran. Tech Thoughts .... Tagged as Bill Mullins, downloads, latest, news, security, tech, Tech Thoughts ...
Bill Mullins' Weblog - Tech Thoughts
Syria e-mail hack points to new level of “information war ...
By Reuters
“That could possibly be a significant turning point in the development of cyber warfare.” Somesecurity experts doubt Syria's fragmented opposition would have had the capacity to access the e-mails without outside help, but others say those in ...
Dubai Business | Kippreport»...
Chemical Facility Security News: Congressional Hearings – Week of ...
By PJCoyle
The House is back from a week on the home front and the Senate is done with their transportation bill, but there still isn't much on the hearing schedule that looks to be of much interest to the chemical- and cyber-security communities; just one ... I would suppose that the argument is that, with less production capacity in this high-population area, any successful terrorist attack on a refinery would have large economic consequences beyond the 'mere' cost of off-site casualties and ...
Chemical Facility Security News
On Legal Challenges to Advancing Cybersecurity « Marvin Ammori
Gary Brown*, on the topic of “Legal Challenges to Advancing Cybersecurity.” The purpose of the discussion was to highlight some of the lessons learned from a ...
ammori.org/.../on-legal-challenges-to-advancing-cybersecurity...
Follow @sobeqorg
