BusinessWeek
By Tony Capaccio on April 25, 2012 Al-Qaeda operatives are seeking the capability to stage cyberattacks against US networks, the intelligence chief of the US Cyber Command said. While it's “accurate today,” that the terrorist group isn't close to ...
Iran Cyber Attack Oil Industry Contained, Official Says
BusinessWeek
By Ladane Nasseri on April 25, 2012 A cyber attack that targeted Iran's crude industry and caused computer systems at the Oil Ministry and other related state-owned businesses to crash has been “fully contained,” a government official said.
Cyber security
CNET
This much is clear: More nations are seeking to acquire cyber attack capabilities as a standard feature in their military planning. But what will that mean to United States' security interests here and abroad? With Congress to consider cyber ...
House hearing: US now under cyber attack
CNET
by Charles Cooper April 24, 2012 1:01 PM PDT Follow @coopeydoop This much is clear: More nations are seeking to acquire cyber attack capabilities as a standard feature in their military planning. But what will that mean to United States' security ...
House cybersecurity sponsors respond to privacy concerns
Los Angeles Times
By Jon Healey Leaders of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence pledged Tuesday to amend their cybersecurity bill, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, to address the main concerns raised by civil libertarians and privacy ...
CounterTack Partners with HP to Enhance Visibility into In-Progress Cyber Attacks
MarketWatch (press release)
WALTHAM, Mass., April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- CounterTack, the industry's first and only provider of in-progress cyber attack intelligence and response solutions, today announced that it has partnered with HP and received the HP ArcSight ...
Why Security Teams Need To Play More Offense
InformationWeek
It's time for IT security teams to add intelligence gathering, counter intel, and offense to the game,security experts say. By Robert Lemos The recipe for a cyber-attack is straightforward: Attackers gather intelligence on the target's systems, ...
Cyber attack more likely than burglary, Barclaycard security chief warns
Inquirer
By Lee Bell WE ARE MORE VULNERABLE to attacks by computer criminals than burglars, Barclaycard's head of security Neira Jones has warned. Speaking at the 2012 Information Securityconference in London today, Jones said fraud cost the UK economy £73bn ...
Cybersecurity Bill's Authors Will Add Amendments To Address Privacy Concerns
Huffington Post
Authors of a cybersecurity bill said Tuesday they will amend their legislation in response to privacy concerns before the House votes on the controversial measure this Friday. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, sponsored by ...
Who is Threatening the Security of Your Network?
PCWorld
At a hearing -- "America is Under Cyber Attack: Why Urgent Action is Needed" -- a number ofsecurity experts spoke about the impact of attacks on the critical IT systems that make companies and the country run. "It is difficult to overstate the ...
UK businesses face weekly cyber attacks - report
CSO
Overall, cyber-security breaches have cost UK plc billions of pounds over the last year. "The UK is under relentless cyber attack," said PwC information security partner Chris Potter. "Since most businesses now share data with their business partners ...
Ron Ross of NIST to Keynote on Cloud Computing Cyber Security at Vanguard ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"The cutting edge insights Ron will deliver in his keynote will equip attendees with the latest tools and information they need to protect their cloud computing environments from cyber attack and ensure continuous system monitoring.
Iranian Oil Ministry's Confidential Data "Not Stolen" in Cyber Attack: Official
CRIENGLISH.com
An Iranian oil ministry official said Wednesday that the ministry's confidential data has not been stolen in a recent cyber attack, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported. Hamdollah Mohammadnejad, deputy minister in engineering affairs, ...
Cyber attacks on government up 680 percent
The Hill (blog)
By Brendan Sasso - 04/25/12 12:00 PM ET Cyber attacks on the federal government soared 680 percent in six years, an official from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) testified Tuesday. Gregory Wilshusen, director of information issues for the ...
US needs top-level approval to launch cyberattacks
BusinessWeek
By RICHARD LARDNER The United States would use cyber weapons against an adversary's computer networks only after officials at the highest levels of government approved of the operation because of the risks of collateral damage, a senior US military ...
Government Website Victim of Cyber Attack
Manila Bulletin
By GENALYN D. KABILING MANILA, Philippines - The official website of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) yesterday became the latest victim of a cyber attack by suspected Chinese hackers. The DBM website was defaced at around 2 pm Wednesday ...
Washington Beat: Congress Prepares To Vote On Four Cyber Security Bills
NY1
Leadership in the US House of Representatives have declared this week to be Cyber Security Week, tackling four bills meant to address the treat the country faces, but there is a partisan dispute as to whether the bills would do enough.
NY1
CISPA draws closer to a vote amid a flurry of amendments
Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON -- Activists and lawmakers are geared up for a final push against the latest Internetsecurity legislation, calling on Congress to reject or dial back the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (PDF) because of the considerable power ...
Federal Cyber Overhaul Cost: $710 Million Through 2017
InformationWeek
... cybersecurity bills on the docket in the House this week, would overhaul the Federal InformationSecurity Management Act (FISMA) by requiring agencies to continuously monitor their computer systems for security threats, and setting other new cyber ...
Pentagon nears expansion of cyber information sharing effort
FederalNewsRadio.com
Takai said the effort also will form the basis for a similar cyber threat information sharing program the Department of Homeland Security has begun, that one designed to share information with Internet service providers (ISPs) so they could help defend ...
Nissan hit with major cyber attack
TG Daily
Nissan has confirmed that it recently suffered a major cyber attack. As of now, the car manufacturer isn't certain who executed the operation or what information may have been extracted. Nissan says that although the attack actually occurred on April ...
No. 1 IT Security Worry: 'Hacktivists'
CIO Today
By Barry Levine A report by security firm Bit9, titled 2012 Cyber Security Research, found that 64 percent of the 2000 IT security experts surveyed expected their organization to be the target of a cyber-attack within the next six months, ...
CIO Today
Uncertainties about cyber-attack on Iranian oil industry
The H
Servers of the Iranian oil ministry have been infected with malware – that is, so far, the only confirmed piece of information on what Iranian news services have called a "cyber-attack" on the country's oil exporting industry.
The H
US eyes broader cyber-threat pact with companies
Chicago Tribune
The companies will have to agree on a protocol for information-sharing among themselves and with the Defense Department, which will act as coordinator for the Defense Industrial Base Cyber Security and Information Assurance program.
As CISPA Nears A Vote, Can The Controversial Cyber-Security Legislation Be ...
Forbes
Civil liberties groups and some politicians are gearing up for a fight against controversial new cyber security legislation. As controversial cyber security legislation nears a vote in the House this week, civil liberties groups and some politicians ...
Forbes
Lawmakers aim to combat cyber attacks (VIDEO)
WENY-TV
WASHINGTON (WENY) -- War has historically been fought on land, at sea, and in the air. But experts think the next big attack could be a virtual one. Several bills on cyber security are scheduled to come up for a vote on the House floor this week.
Cyber security is stepped up
Gulf Daily News
By SANDEEP SINGH GREWAL , Posted on » Wednesday, April 25, 2012 BAHRAIN has beefed up Internet security after several government websites were attacked by a global hacking network. The Justice, Islamic Affairs and Endowment Ministry, ...
ACLU pans privacy amendments to cybersecurity bill
The Hill (blog)
The ACLU is taking a harder line against the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) than the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), which stopped short of endorsing the bill on Tuesday but applauded the proposed changes.
Nissan hit with major cyber attack
By admin
April 25, 2012 By admin. “Nissan has confirmed that it recently suffered a major cyber attack. ... The Daily FedCyber.com Update provides a summary feed of cyber security news with a focus on the federal space. The Weekly Government Big ...
CTOlist.com
Official: Cyber attacks need top-level approval - Army News | News ...
By The Associated Press
Cyber Command is in charge of defending U.S. military networks from attacks and intrusions. The command's top officer, Army Gen. Keith Alexander, also is the director of the secretive NationalSecurity Agency, which gathers electronic ...
Army Times - News
By The Associated Press
Cyber Command is in charge of defending U.S. military networks from attacks and intrusions. The command's top officer, Army Gen. Keith Alexander, also is the director of the secretive NationalSecurity Agency, which gathers electronic ...
Army Times - News
House to amend cybersecurity bill, privacy group sees 'good ...
By Brendan Sasso
The government would only be able to use the information to protect against a cyber attack, investigate cyber crime, protect national security, protect against theft or bodily harm or to protect minors from child pornography. CDT argued that the ...
Top News
CISPA, the New Enemy of the Internet | The Vigilant Citizen
By VC
As controversial cyber security legislation nears a vote in the House this week, civil liberties groups and some politicians are lining up against the bill. Critics of ... “The president has called for comprehensive cybersecurity legislation. There is ...
The Vigilant Citizen
Notice: I am under cyber attack with nearly 4000 spam comments, I ...
By orly taitz
Notice: I am under cyber attack with nearly 4000 spam comments, I am taking care of it. It will take me some time to get to your comments. e-mail and call, if there is something important. Posted on | April 25, 2012 | No Comments · Share ...
Dr. Orly Taitz, Esquire
Spies, Hackers and Energy - Preventing a Digital Pearl Harbor
By corporate@oilprice.com (Jen Alic)
Speaking at Bloomberg's 2012 Cybersecurity Conference on 20 April, Schmidt lobbied for the new cyber security bills, stressing that there has been a clear escalation of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure, with around 200 attempts in 2011 – five times the amount in 2010. ... The real threat to US energy infrastructure from the cyber theater is China and Russia, both of whom are believed to be developing cyber warfare methods capable of dealing a major blow to critical infrastructure.
OilPrice.com Daily News Update
Nissan hit with major cyber attack
By Team Cymru Internet Security News
Via Team Cymru Internet Security News. "Nissan has confirmed that it recently suffered a majorcyber attack. As of now, the car manufacturer isn't certain who executed the operation or what information may have been extracted. Nissan says ...
Digital Rights Watch
Mysterious cyber attack hits Iranian oil data
By scherald-admin
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Israel National News Iran has confirmed that a cyber attack hit its Oil Ministry data systems. It claims there was no damage, but the National Iranian...
Second Coming Herald
Government tells firms to come clean about cyber attacks | IT PRO
Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe conference in central London, Science Minister David Willetts said such disclosures would help raise awareness of cybersecurity in the UK. "I would urge companies to be frank with what is ... Citing research by PricewaterhouseCoopers, which revealed that 93 per cent of firms had suffered a security breach in the last year, he said cyber security should be a concern for companies of all sizes. He claimed the Department for Business, Innovation and ...
IT PRO - Today
Cyber Attack Launched On Iran's Oil Sector | TheTechJournal
By Salman
Iran's oil sector has been targeted with a nefarious virus. The attack was so severe that the authorities were forced to unplug the entire oil export terminal system. A cyber crisis team has been set up which will look into the matter and try to ...
TheTechJournal
Anonymous Hacker Claims Credit For VMware ... - Cyber Warzone
By siavash
anonymous.png. VMware's ESX hypervisor source code leak may stem from an attack on a Chinese import-export firm last month in which an anonymous hacker claims to have made off with more than one terabyte of confidential documents. ... In a security bulletin issued earlier on Tuesday, VMware warned that a single file from its ESX server hypervisor source code had been posted online and said it is possible that more proprietary files could be leaked. The leaked ESX code is ...
Cyber Warzone - Cyberwarfare...
Entrepreneurs, Advocates, Politicians Circle The Wagons Against ...
By Jon Christian
A diverse, growing group of entrepreneurs, privacy and security advocates, and high-level politicians are voicing opposition to controversial new cybersecurity laws including the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. In addition, some ...
tech.li
FBI warns of Internet doomsday
By Jackie Johnson
... by cyber criminals, who made millions of dollars in an online advertising scam. Network SecurityInstructor at Madison College (MATC) Mike Masino says the FBI was able to track down the source of the malware, called DNS Changer. Investigators are ... The FBI is estimating at least 360000 machines are still infected in this fairly widespread cyber-attack that had affected almost twice that number. The malware also prevents anti-virus software from being updated, thereby making the ...
Wisconsin Radio Network
Cyber Attack on The Iranian Oil Ministry's Computer Network | The ...
Cyber Attack on The Iranian Oil Ministry's Computer Network. Computer Security Blog !! THN Magazine and The Hacker News is Most Comprehensive resource ...
thehackernews.com/.../cyber-attack-on-iranian-oil-ministrys.ht...
House Republicans Declare Cyber Security Week
The U.S. House of representatives have unofficially designated this week as " Cybersecurity Week". The House Republican Leadership has taken it upon ...
www.infosecisland.com/.../21093-House-Republicans-Declare-...
Iranian Oil Industry Hit with Cyber Attack -- Society's Child -- Sott.net
Oil industry computers taken off-line. Much of the world's oil comes from the Middle East. If those oil-producing nations were somehow unable to conduct ...
www.sott.net/.../244532-Iranian-Oil-Industry-Hit-with-Cyber-...
Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act Promotes Cybersecurity
Recognizing that the U.S. faces serious cybersecurity threats, Congress has wisely decided to take action in this important arena, and the House of ...
www.heritage.org/.../cyber-intelligence-sharing-and-protection...
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