RT
A group linked to the hacktivist collective Anonymous claims to have taken down the Chicago police department website as authorities are looking into whether the City of Chicago website was also hit in the cyber strike. Flying the Anonymousbanner, ...
RT
Anonymous-linked hactivists attacked City of Chicago websites
DigitalJournal.com
Anonymous-related hacktivists also did their part by taking down the CPD's website and the City of Chicago's website. RT reports that authorities are looking into whether the City of Chicago website was taken down in yesterday's cyberstrike.
DigitalJournal.com
Hackers Claim Cyber Attack on Chicago Sites
NBC Chicago
By Lisa Balde Hacker group AntiS3curityOPS posted a video called "Anonymous: message to Chicago Police Department" on the site Cyber War News. The video has since been made private. A group associated with the hacker community Anonymous claims to have ...
Chicago websites under cyber attack?
CBS News
2 more NATO Summit activists charged NATO protesters gather for Chicago rally 3 face terror charges after Chicago apt. raid A posting on the websitecyberwarnews.info explains the hacking group called Anonymous started "an operation toward the Chicago ...
CBS News
Swift Exchange Says Latest Cyber Threats Underscore Need for Internationally ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, May 21, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Recent, intensifying discussions between countries in the cross-hairs of cyber security signal a heightened need for international coordination in the face of cyber attacks, according to Swift Exchange, ...
Websites brought down in possible cyber attack during NATO summit are up and ...
Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO (AP) — The websites for the city of Chicago and the city's police department are running again hours after a possible cyber attack. Officials say they're still investigating how the sites went down, and they had no further information.
City of Chicago website may be under cyber attack
WLS
CHICAGO (WLS) - Law enforcement officials are investigating a possible cyber attack on the City of Chicago's website, a source told the Chicago Sun-Times. The website— www.cityofchicago.org — at one point appeared to be down Sunday morning.
WLS
Hackers Launch Cyber Attack on City of Chicago Websites
KMAS
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(CHICAGO) -- NATO protests in Chicago have prompted hackers to launch a cyber attack on both the City of Chicago's website and the Chicago Police Department's website on Sunday, according to published reports.
NATO Summit: Hackers Target Police, City of Chicago Websites
ABC News
Chicago police are working with federal authorities to investigate the attack and the extent of it, the Chicago Tribune reported. NATO has not confirmed it was the victim of a cyber attack. All three sites now appear to be running as usual.
ABC News
Cassidian targets fast growing Middle East Cyber Security market
AME Info
Cassidian CyberSecurity is reinforcing its presence in the Middle East and will address the fast-growing Cyber Security market in this region. This step follows the recent announcement of the new Cassidian CyberSecurity companies which will be based in ...
AME Info
Cerf Fears Government Cyber, Anti-Piracy Laws
National Journal
By Josh Smith Governments around the world are using cybersecurity and other fears to "cloak" efforts to crack down on political speech, Vint Cerf, known as one of the fathers of the Internet, said on Monday. The tendency among tech advocates to ...
Lancope and Cisco to Present Webinar on Continuous Network Visibility to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The presentation, "Continuous Network Visibility to Combat Advanced Cyber Threats," will examine how network telemetry sources such as NetFlow and IPFIX can be used as a valuable means of obtaining always-on security monitoring.
Response to Paul on Cyber-Regulation for Critical Infrastructure
Lawfare (blog)
“We would not be thinking of a new regulatory scheme just to deal with cyber crime. This isn't accurate. We (meaning the US government and others involved in cybersecurity) are thinking of new regulatory schemes to deal with cyber crime.
Public demanding law on cyber security: survey
Xinhua
The situation escalated within days, as several popular social networking and gaming websites also fell victim to a cyber attack, resulting in the leak of personal details belonging to millions of subscribers. There is strong demand for authorities to ...
FireEye Wins TiE50 2012 Award
MarketWatch (press release)
"This honor provides further validation for our efforts to keep enterprises safe from high profilecyber attacks with our unique product offering that identifies and blocks attacks through each stage and across all major threat vectors.
MoD's Qinetiq leads UK cyber security consortium
TechEye
Now it has been contracted by some familiar faces to lead a consortium which aims to protect the MoD from cyber attacks. The consortium is called Enabling Secure Information Infrastructure, or ESII. For this particular contract, Qinetiq, ...
TechEye
Who's Afraid of #CISPA?
Wall Street Journal
Companies can, in turn, share their concerns or proprietary information with the NationalSecurity Agency, FBI and others. This would all be voluntary. Dutch Ruppersberger, the ranking Democrat on House intelligence, is co-sponsoring the Cyber ...
Cyber bullying a problem
Bucyrus Telegraph Forum
"If, in fact, the attack on a home computer has involved another student in the school, if they print out the evidence and bring it in, school administrators can take action if they have a policy in place," Bhat said. That has caused concerns among ...
New Utah IT director highlights failings that aided cyber attack
SC Magazine UK
VanOrden said he will tighten security among personnel, including the use of a possible checklist for any time a change is made to information stored on any of the state's 2000 servers, and immediate termination for anyone who accesses information not ...
'Father of the Internet' warns Web freedom is under attack
The Hill (blog)
He criticized the Cybersecurity and Intelligence Protection Act (CISPA), legislation passed by the House to encourage companies to share information about cyber threats with the government, because it lacks "adequate constraints" on how the information ...
Manila ready for Chinese cyber warfare: Palace
Saudi Gazette
MANILA — Malaca?ang said it is ready to deal with potential cyber-attacks, amid reports that China is investing in cyber-warfare as part of its steady military buildup, according to a report published in GMA News here Sunday. “Our technical people are ...
US hopeful China will recognise its cyber war rules
CSO Magazine
While no one has, with 100 per cent certainty, pinned the Chinese Government for cyber-attacks on US government and Western companies, in its [[xref: http://www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/2012_CMPR_Final.pdf |2012 report|]], “Military and Security ...
Mitigating the threat of cyber crime through security
The Engineer (blog)
They add that implementation of training methodologies is acknowledged as essential if nations are to successfully secure their systems against this unprecedented attack. Cyber security training will be presented by speakers within five main themes, ...
The Engineer (blog)
'Anonymous' attacks Chicago govt websites
Zee News
Washington: US authorities are investigating a possible cyber attack against government websites in Chicago, where the NATO Summit is taking place, according to a report. A posting on the website cyberwarnews.info said the notorious hacking group ...
Zee News
PICKET: Was Chicago PD dealing with hackers for several days?
Washington Times (blog)
By Kerry Picket Authorities are investigating whether the City Of Chicago's website is under a cyber attack, CBS 2 has learned. The main portal to cityofchicago.orgwas not accessible Sunday morning. “We are aware of the potential issue of the City of ...
Washington Times (blog)
Chicago city, police websites possibly hacked
USA TODAY
The group Anonymous issued a statement, published by Cyber War News and WBBM, in which it indicated it had launched an attack against the police department site, and the group encouraged others to do so. USA TODAY has reported that protests focused on ...
BAE Systems Partners with the Open Information Security Foundation to Provide ...
MarketWatch (press release)
ARLINGTON, Va., May 21, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- BAE Systems is partnering with the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) to provide cost-effective, open source software solutions that are free to the public. OISF is a non-profit foundation ...
Overlook The Obvious And Risk Everything
Dark Reading (blog)
A number of very preventable mistakes made it relatively easy for cyber thieves to access approximate 280000 medical files complete with social security numbers and other personally identifiable information (PII) as well as many as 500000 additional ...
Beware: Six stages of malicious cyber crime attacks
Dynamic Business (blog)
To put an effective IT security solution in place and secure your business data, you need to have a basic understanding of the six stages of today's malicious cyber attacks. The recently released Websense 2012 Threat Report makes sobering reading for ...
NTRO can cripple 'hostile' servers
The Asian Age
The NTRO, which is the sole technical intelligence arm of the government, had been silently working on an ambitious project to not just prepare a foolproof “cyber security plan'' to ward off acyber attack but also go on the offensive.
Quebec Liberal Party and Education Ministry ... - The Hacker News
By noreply@blogger.com (THN Reporter)
Quebec Liberal Party and Education Ministry websites take down in massive Cyber Attack. TheHacker News is Most ... Leading resource in providing information & updates to security experts and hackers worldwide. Security Blog ! Follow @ ...
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Hackers Launch Cyber Attack on City of Chicago Websites | WFJA ...
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(CHICAGO) -- NATO protests in Chicago have prompted hackers to launch a cyber attack on both the City of Chicago's website and the Chicago Police.
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Responding to a Data Breach is crucial
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Cyber liability insurance, with data breach response services, offers a comprehensive risk management solution for assisting in a cyber attack/and or data breach recovery scenario. ... 3) privacy and security liability, 4) privacy regulatory defense and penalties, 5) computer forensics investigation, 6) a “Data Breach Coach” (aka “Privacy” attorney) and 7) pre-breach planning services. It's important to note that all cyber insurance policies are not standard policies and vary by insurance ...
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Raytheon Company: Cyber Threat is Stealthy, Real-time and ...
Jeff Snyder, Vice President of Cyber Programs for Raytheon, describes today's cyber threat and the layered approach necessary to address it on a Security and Defence Agenda panel.
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New Cyber security law to protect your online Privacy
Well, it is time to know what is covered in the cyber law to know what allows and what does not.Cyber Security. Even if the terms cyber crime, cyber terrorism, internet surveillance,cyber-attack, cyber threat, cyber fraud, refer to a “virtual” world, ...
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NATO Summit: Hackers Target Websites, Arrests Made » Talk Radio ...
By cBruno
Chicago police are working with federal authorities to investigate the attack and the extent of it, the Chicago Tribune reported. NATO has not confirmed it was the victim of a cyber attack. All three sites now appear to be running as usual.
Talk Radio 600 WBOB Jacksonville,...
Hacker Nyre Claims Responsibility for Pirate Bay Attack ...
By l33tdawg
ZDNet's Emil Protalinski reports that a hacker calling himself "Nyre" has claimed responsibility for a recent cyber attack that took down The Pirate Bay. In a Pastebin post, Nyre writes, "I am highly against Anonymous. I do not support ...
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Hacking The Hackers: A Counter-Intelligence Operation Against ...
By the Editor
One of our security lab team members is an ex-cyberspook who spent his career in the military doing hacking, crypto, and a lot of special computer ops for different government agencies. Having the highest security .... On January 21, rather than launching the attack, my guy disappeared from the cyber world, leaving this group of miscreants to wonder what happened, where did Pandemic (one of his many screen names) go, and what should they do next? They totally relied upon him ...
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Irimo.ir - Iran Meteorological Organization Taken Offline & Destroyed ...
By Lee J
The attack comes from an hacker using the handle you-r!-k@n who played a part in the middle east cyber war at the start of the year and is now claiming to of destroyed the site and all sub domains as well. On a article on hackmageddon.com ...
Cyber War News
Mobile Use of Social Networks Becoming Preferred Way to Infect ...
By Otilia Otlacan
AVG Technologies (NYSE: AVG), the provider of Internet and mobile security to approximately 108 million active users, released its Q1 2012 Community Powered Threat Report. The report highlights the growing use of mobile devices to connect with social networks and how this is fast becoming a preferred method for cyber criminals to spread malware, particularly on those devices running Android.
AdOperationsOnline.com
CIP V3 vs V5 – Blackstart is Low? - Digital Bond SCADA Security ...
By Michael Toecker
Discussion of Blackstart being defined as a Low impact in the NERC CIP V5 standards, as well as proposed new cyber security controls specific to Blackstart.
Digital Bond's SCADA Security Portal
8 steps to pevent cyber-attack damage to traveler laptops
Earlier this month, the Internet Crime Complaint Center, a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar Crime Center, ...
www.consumertraveler.com/.../preventing-cyber-attack-damag...
Information Security News: Cyber "Attack" Aimed at Pipeline ...
Here's the first thing you need to know about a reported "cyber attack" against natural gas pipeline operators that was revealed last week: It wasn't actually an ...
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