Chicago Sun-Times
BY NATASHA KORECKI Federal Courts Reporter May 20, 2012 10:40AM Law enforcement officials are investigating if the City of Chicago's website is under a cyber attack, a source told the Chicago Sun-Times. City officials were not immediately available for ...
City Of Chicago Website Target Of Cyber Attack?
CBS2 Chicago
A You Tube video was posted on the cyberwarnews website claiming a cyber attack on the City Of Chicago website. (Credit: cyberwarnews.info) CHICAGO (CBS) — Authorities are investigating whether the City Of Chicago's website is under a cyber attack, ...
CBS2 Chicago
Homeland Security Investigates Cyber Attack on Gas Pipelines
Criminal Justice Degree Schools
by Justin Davis on May 19, 2012 This is not a drill: the Department of HomelandSecurity (DHS) has warned corporations and facilities that operate within the natural gas industry that they are under cyber attack. Industry executives andcybersecurity ...
Criminal Justice Degree Schools
CSUAE countdown: Cassidian on cyber security
ArabianOilandGas.com
Ahead of the 1st International Cyber Security Forum for Energy & Utilities in Abu Dhabi, Guy Meguer, General Manager of Cassidian CyberSecurity in the Middle East, spells out the key risks for energy and utility companies.
ArabianOilandGas.com
PHL ready for Chinese cyber warfare, Malacañang says
GMA News
Malacañang on Sunday 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. “Our technical people are very competent, we have been coordinating with the ...
Palace unfazed by cyber warfare
Sun.Star
MALACANANG said Sunday the government has competent IT people who are on hand to protect its websites from cyber attacks. Presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda made the assurance following report that China is investing in cyber warfare as part of ...
Schmidt Leaves White House Cyber Post in Strong Position for Seasoned Veteran ...
ag-IP-news Agency
WASHINGTON, DC - The Business Software Alliance (BSA) praised in a press release the accomplishments of outgoing White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt, who has announced he will leave his post at the end of May, and welcomed his ...
Hackers hit cyber security agency's site
Times of India
Online hacker group Anonymous continued its protest against internet censorship for a third day on Saturday, taking down the website of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In). Operational since 2004, CERT-In is the national nodal agency for ...
International collaboration to bring you insider perspectives on global cyber ...
Malta Independent Online
If we have a serious security problem, how do we get ourselves out of this mess? In particular, what can I do to improve my situation and protect those I care about? Each week, this easy to understand series of articles quotes cyber security insiders ...
Obama tries NATO fix for Afghanistan security
Sydney Morning Herald
The goal is to pool resources for capabilities that may be too costly for a single country, such as airlift, intelligence and surveillance, missile defence and cyber security. France's President Francois Hollande is sticking to his campaign pledge to ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Torrent Swarms Under Attack According to CERT-Poland
DecryptedTech
Now it seems that the massive amounts of traffic generated by this type of attack have even set off alarms at CERT (Cyber Emergency Response Team) in Poland. You see in order to affect the swarm in any measurable way they have to either send massive ...
DecryptedTech
Sixty-nine arrested in overnight riots; celebs take sides
CTV.ca
The computer hacker known as Anonymous, who is believed to be responsible for severalcyber-attacks on websites, reiterated his intention to continue his attempts to disrupt the system. The scenes in Montreal unfolded during a tense late-night march ...
Fire, arrests and a Rolling Stone: Quebec student protests get international ...
National Post
In another online manoeuvre, the website for the Quebec Liberal party and the province's Education Ministry were down for most of Saturday in an apparent cyber attack. While no one claimed responsibility, the hacker group Anonymous has taken an ...
National Post
Quebec protesters find ways to skirt Charest's legal roadblocks
Globe and Mail
Meanwhile, the website for the province's Education Ministry was down Saturday in an apparent cyber attack. While no one claimed responsibility, the hacker groupAnonymous has taken an interest in the provincial legislation. The group wrote on Twitter ...
Globe and Mail
Palace hopeful of resolving China row
BusinessWorld Online Edition
Despite refusing to comment on a Pentagon report saying that China is gearing up its cyberespionage, Mr. Lacierda said: "Suffice it to say that as soon as... we detect from our servers a crime that will point to a denial of service attack, ...
Protesters finding creative ways around controversial new Quebec law
News1130
Another anonymous web page with listings quickly popped up in its place _ with a note discouraging people from attending. The disclaimer is meant to evade new rules applying to protest organizers, who must provide an itinerary for demonstrations and ...
Parenting has become a minefield
Herald Sun
According to some callers to a radio talkback session last week during a segment by a cybersafety educator, parents who allow Facebook are ignorant and irresponsible. Groan. And last but not least are the attacks we see, constantly, ...
Insider perspectives on the status of global cyber safety and security ...
By paganinip
Worse, critical aspects of today's mainstream civilian cyber security ecosystem foundations are fundamentally flawed at the conceptual design, architecture and implementation levels.(See Synaptic Labs' free 2012 ... The UK government position, articulated in a rare public statement by Ian Lobban, Director General of the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), is: “The UK's critical infrastructure faces a 'real and credible' threat of cyber attack. It goes to the heart of our ...
Security Affairs
Control System Security: Project Basecamp: Tempest in a Teapot
By Andrew Ginter
Attack technologies and corresponding defenses both are expected to evolve enormously over the next 20 years, and nobody expects to be able to retrofit modern protections into 20-year-old equipment - not now, and not twenty years from now. .... Join us as three cyber-security experts: Seán Paul McGurk, Mark Simon and Andrew Ginter, explore how NERC-CIP is changing, how Unidirectional Security Gateways are providing new alternatives for both security and compliance, and ...
Control System Security
Columbia City Paper: Remember Stuxnet? Why the U.S. is Still ...
By Paul Blake
Whoever knows the answer to this isn't telling — but if cybersecurity researchers, the Iranian government and vocal Internet users are to be believed, the two prime suspects are the U.S. and Israeli governments. Q. How does it work? Stuxnet seeks out ... The Department of Energy and the Department of Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or CERT, work with infrastructure owners, operators and vendors to prevent and respond to cyber threats. Researchers at ...
Columbia City Paper
Major Cyber Attack Aimed at US Pipeline Industry
A major cyber attack on US gas pipeline companies is under way, according to US Department of Homeland Security alerts. &
www.bitdefender.com/.../Major-Cyber-Attack-Aimed-at-US-Pi...
Retiring U.S. Cybersecurity Chief Shaped National Strategy and ...
The nation's cybersecurity 'czar' Howard Schmidt is leaving office and riding his Harley into the setting sun… literally. At the end of the month, Schmidt leaves for ...
https://www.cdt.org/.../1805retiring-us-cybersecurity-chief-sha...
HP, CSC and EMC open cybersecurity research centre ...
Outsourcer CSC, HP and communications research organisation Fraunhofer FOKUS have joined together to open a cybersecurity research centre in Berlin.
www.computerworlduk.com/.../hp-csc-and-emc-open-cyberse...
CQ | Cybersecurity: Rushing to Stall?
When 2012 dawned, cybersecurity legislation was bathed in a glow of congressional harmony rare during an election year, particularly this one. On both sides of ...
public.cq.com/docs/.../weeklyreport-000004082570.html
America's Cybersecurity Czar, Howard Schmidt, Steps Down ...
wiredmikey writes "In December of 2009, after months of waiting, the Obama Administration named Howard Schmidt as the White House Cybersecurity ...
yro.slashdot.org/.../americas-cybersecurity-czar-howard-schmi...
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