ABC News
The video was obtained by the FBI last year, and released today by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. "This is the clearest evidence we've seen that al Qaeda and other terrorist groups want to attack the cybersystems ...
ABC News
Execs to Study Cyber Security in New NYU-Poly Master's Degree Track
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Because defending institutional data against attack depends equally on cyber security experts as well as executives who command management and technical skills, Polytechnic Institute of New York ...
Exclusive: Spy agency seeks cyber-ops curriculum
Reuters
By Tabassum Zakaria | FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The National Security Agency is trying to expand US cyber expertise needed for secret intelligence operations against adversaries on computer networks through a new cyber-ops program at selected ...
Give Cyber Peace a Chance...But It Still Won't Work
CIO (blog)
Cybersecurity guru Eugene Kaspersky has called for an international cyber-weapons treaty because, he says, there's is no feasible way to defend all of our critical network infrastructure against cyber attacks. His reason sounds like a good one.
CIO (blog)
Bit9 to Host Webinar Highlighting 2012 Cyber Security Research Report
MarketWatch (press release)
Find out why 61 percent of IT security professionals believed that the hacktivist group Anonymousposed the greatest threat to their enterprise, while 60 percent also believed that their company would be the target of a cyber attack in the next six ...
EXCLUSIVE-US spy agency seeks cyber-ops curriculum
Chicago Tribune
Four schools selected for new NSA cyber-ops program * Part of Obama initiative to improve UScybersecurity * Computer systems under attack constantly - NSA official By Tabassum Zakaria FORT MEADE, Md., May 22 (Reuters) - The National Security Agency is ...
Cyber-ops training now at universities: NSA
MyBroadband
The National Security Agency is trying to expand US cyber expertise needed for secret intelligence operations against adversaries on computer networks through a newcyber-ops program at selected universities. The cyber-ops curriculum is geared to ...
MyBroadband
US senators: Al Qaeda calls for 'electronic jihad'
CNN
"This is the clearest evidence we've seen that Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups want to attack thecyber systems of our critical infrastructure," committee chairman Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, said in the statement.
NSA to offer cyber-ops training at select universities
The Verge
By Amar Toor on May 23, 2012 07:11 am 2Comments As part of its ongoing efforts to combat cybercrime, the NSA has developed new cyber-ops training programs at a handful of US universities. According to a report from Reuters, the agency has begun ...
Military Debates Who Should Pull The Trigger For A Cyber Attack
AOL Defense
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. VIRGINIA BEACH, VA: The American military is intrigued by the offensive uses for cyber-warfare, but it is struggling to figure out how to do it. What impact cancyber weapons have on the battlefield?
Cyber Crooks: In It for the Money
PC Magazine
While it's easy for IT and security professionals to get caught up and imagine hacktivists will be breaking into their networks next, cyber-criminals intent on making money remain the bigger threat, according to a new Ponemon Institute report.
NSA Teams Up With Colleges to Train Students for Secret Cyber-Ops Jobs
Wired News (blog)
By Kim Zetter The National Security Agency is partnering with select universities to train students in cyber operations for intelligence, military and law enforcement jobs, work that will remain secret to all but a select group of students and faculty ...
Wired News (blog)
Al Qaeda calls for 'Electronic Jihad' against US
Zee News
Washington: In an indication that al Qaeda may turn to cyber-warfare against the US, a newly-revealed video urges the group's followers to launch cyber attacks on Western targets. US lawmakers have described the message as "alarming".
Zee News
SECURING AMERICA: AL-QAEDA CYBER ATTACK COMING? [VIDEO]
FOX News Radio
Republican Senator Susan Collins and her counterpart on the Senate HomelandSecurity Committee, Joe Lieberman, say they first learned of the al-Qaeda cyber tape a week ago in a meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. (Sen.
FOX News Radio
'Clueless' boards risk lawsuits, threaten national security
Network World
Jody Westby, CEO of Global Cyber Risk and the author of the report, wrote in Forbes last week that boards of directors are essentially "clueless" about cybersecurity, saying 75% of the survey respondents were from critical infrastructure industry ...
The New College Classes That Require Top Secret Clearance
ABC News (blog)
The National Security Agency announced Monday that four universities had been selected for a new academic program designed to teach students skills “associated with specialized cyber operations.” The NSA is vague on the details of the courses and says ...
Top Cyber Threats: Security Research Roundup
eSecurity Planet
By Jeff Goldman | May 22, 2012 Recent reports from Panda Security, Trend Micro, Websense, Verizon, Sophos, Symantec, Group-IB and Bit9 have shed light on the current state of malware, phishing, and other attack methods. From the rise of Trojans and ...
eSecurity Planet
Iranian 'Cyber Warriors Team' takes credit for NASA hack
msnbc.com
The Cyber Warriors Team promised to post a video at a later date showing how it performed the NASA hack. Although still unconfirmed, this alleged security breach is not the first attack to be levied against the space agency in an attempt to either ...
UK firms under cyber attack as criminals target financial data
MicroScope (blog)
Uk businesses are under attack from web criminals motivated by a desire to carry off financial fraud to line their own pockets. Research from security vendor Check point in conjunction with the Ponemon Institute revealed that British firms were ...
The New College Classes That Require Top-Secret Clearance
KMAS
... for training in the dark arts of cyber espionage. The National Security Agency announced Monday that four universities had been selected for a new academic program -- an extension of President Obama's National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education ...
Senator: CISPA creates a Cyber Industrial Complex
RT
Wyden made it clear that he was also one of many opposed to CISPA and othercybersecurity legislation, calling them, “an overreaction to a legitimate fear.” “It is a fundamental principle of cyber-security that any network whose failure could result in...
RT
Yes Satellite Television Service Provider Says 'Yes' to Radware's ADC and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Yes Satellite had been the target of several cyber attacks in the recent past that included network scans and DNS floods. Yes Satellite went with Radware's AMS, the industry's first fully integrated ITsecurity strategy and portfolio, because of its ...
9/11 'Success' Spurs Al Qaeda's Anti-US Cyber Warfare
Arutz Sheva
Evidence surfaces of Al Qaeda plots to launch cyber attacks to disable the electric grid and other parts of the American infrastructure. By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Evidence has surfaced that Al Qaeda is plotting to launch massive cyber attacks to disable ...
Arutz Sheva
NSA launches cyber program for college students
FederalNewsRadio.com
The agency launched its National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations Program which will provide seminars and classes for interested students with hopes of building up the futurecybersecurity workforce. The classes supplement the ...
Technology, Government Security Experts to Keynote at Vanguard Security ...
Sacramento Bee
NIST Fellow and leading information security and risk management expert Ron Ross who will speak on building effective cyber security programs for the cloud. Nevada's Chief Information SecurityOfficer Christopher Ipsen, Nevada's Chief Information ...
Lieberman warns of 'electronic jihad' in call for cyber bill's passage
FederalNewsRadio.com
Lieberman is pressing the Senate to pass the Cybersecurity Act that would set minimum securitystandard requirements for critical infrastructure. The FBI has had the video since last year but recently the part where cyber attacks are mentioned has been ...
What cyber czar's departure means for White House cyber priorities
FCW.com
By Camille Tuutti The exit of Howard Schmidt, the White House's first cyber czar, will likely have no major impact on the administration's current cybersecurity priorities, according to experts. That's no reflection on Schmidt, though.
Are We Experiencing a Cybersecurity Ebb Tide? // 10:55 AM ET
Nextgov
By Jessica Herrera-Flanigan 10:55 AM ET comments In the past, I have written on the ebbs and flows of government interest in cybersecurity, dating back to as early as 1998. For the last 14 years we have seen the government turn its attention to cyber, ...
Hacktivist claim: We took down city website because of police violence
Chicago Sun-Times
A member of AntiS3curityOPS, which has taken credit for taking the City of Chicago's website offline on Sunday, said in an interview on Tuesday it had been prepared for weeks to launch a cyber attackduring the NATO meetings — but did so only after ...
RI firms urged to train students in cybersecurity
Boston.com
... train students interested in pursuing careers in information technology and cybersecurity. The Democratic congressman says companies can find intern candidates from among the students taking part in the Rhode Island Cyber Foundations Competition.
Senators: Al Qaeda calls for 'electronic jihad'
CNN (blog)
By CNN Wire Staff An al Qaeda video calling for "electronic jihad" illustrates the urgent need forcybersecurity standards for the most critical networks in the United States, a group of senators said. "Internet piracy is an important field of jihad," ...
CeBIT 2012: Social media is a tool for cyber criminals, says Eugene Kaspersky
Computerworld Australia
Social media is the latest tool in the arsenal of cyber criminals, with groups using social networking websites such as Twitter to “manipulate the masses” into thinking a certain way, according to Kaspersky Labs' co-founder and chief executive, ...
Iranian Hackers Claim Credit for NASA Attack
eSecurity Planet
By Jeff Goldman | May 22, 2012 A group of Iranian hackers calling themselves theCyber Warriors Team recently claimed to have accessed thousands of NASA researchers' user information. "In a May 16 statement posted on Pastebin, the group claimed (in ...
eSecurity Planet
Cyber is Big Business, and a Big Opportunity for Thieves « Secure ...
By DanielBooth
The consequences of a cyber attack are far-reaching. Apart from the obvious damage that hacking causes to systems and networks, the real issues are ... BT already provides security solutions for challenging and complex environments including Unilever and the UK Ministry of Defence — as well as working with Governments across the world in support of their cyber security agendas. We have the right products and experience to ensure cyber confidence for your business. Scalable ...
Secure Thinking
Are you immune from an Olympic-sized cyber attack? | IT ...
By Melanie Watson
... for hackers to attack your business. With more attention being paid on the games, and an increase in absenteeism from the office, most businesses will be left unguarded and vulnerable to acyber attack. ... ISO27001 Cyber Security Toolkit ...
IT Governance Blog on IT governance,...
DHS Report: Criminals and Hacktivists May Use 2012 Summer ...
By Public Intelligence
Olympic organizers anticipated cyber threats and began testing their cybersecurity posture during 'technical rehearsals' by running scenarios from their Technology Operations Center (TOC) situated on Canary Wharf. The TOC ... with over one hundred personnel continuously monitoring critical applications, such as the Commentator Information System, organizers' intranet, and a telecom infrastructure encompassing 900 servers, 1000 network and security devices, and 9500 computers.
Public Intelligence
NASA SSL Digital Certificate hacked by Iranian ... - The Hacker News
By noreply@blogger.com (THN Reporter)
The Hacker News Reader! Get Free THN MAGAZINE, Most Informative IT Security Magazine [ Download Here ]. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Leading resource in providing information & updates to security experts and hackers worldwide. Security Blog ! Follow @ ... Iranian hackers 'CyberWarriors Team' announced in an online post that it compromised an SSL certificate belonging to NASA and subsequently accessed information on thousands of NASA researchers. A space agency...
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Cyber Warfare Signs: the South China Sea Affair – Urban Times
By Erik Underwood
In recent months cyber attacks have occurred between China and the Philippines. ... Cyber WarfareSigns: the South China Sea Affair. No Comments by Erik Underwood 13 minutes ago ... It should be noted that these attacks do not currently pose a threat to the security of the region. At the moment the ... Granted, that attack came from an insider leak rather than an online source, but there are still plenty of examples of how hackers can hurt nations and their citizens. The protest hacker ...
Urban Times
The CTU's 10th Caribbean Ministerial Strategic ICT Seminar » ICT ...
By mmarius
This Seminar will focus on the critical issues of the Caribbean Region's participation in activities of the international ICT community and on regional Cyber Security. The CTU is the ... Day 2 of the Seminar will utilize the 'Comprehensive Inter- American Strategy to Combat Threats to Cybersecurity', a resolution adopted by the Organisation of American States (OAS) countries, as a basis for outlining a more immediate Caribbean plan of action on cyber security. Pedro Paixao, Vice ...
ICT Pulse
Bit9 to Host Webinar Highlighting 2012 Cyber Security Research ...
Find out why 61 percent of IT security professionals believed that the hacktivist group Anonymousposed the greatest threat to their enterprise, while 60 percent also believed that their company would be the target of a cyber attack in the next ...
ITbriefing.net
Hackers Plan Cyber Campaign Against Corporate Giants on Friday ...
By Candice Lanier
Hackers Plan Cyber Campaign Against Corporate Giants on Friday. Fox Business -. A group of hackers claiming to be aligned with Anonymous is planning to bring down the websites of 46 major companies around the world on Friday, ...
The Minority Report Blog
The Smart Grid Security Blog: WSJ on Speaking Cybersecurity Truth ...
Boards of directors are clueless when it comes to cybersecurity — and that's a great opportunity for CIOs to prove their worth. John Halamka, the highly regarded ...
smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/.../wsj-on-speaking-cybersecur...
U.S. must strut cyber might to stop attacks, Cartwright says ...
Comments. The United States must frighten adversaries by displaying an arsenal of operational hacking weapons to fight cyber threats, said retired Gen. James ...
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