It’s always been fashionable in the cybersecurity industry to throw up our hands and call cyber crime an intractable problem. We don’t have the technical skills to match hackers, attribution is impossible in cyberspace, we don’t have the legal framework for Internet crimes, or in...
On Friday, December 16th, 2011, FedCyber.com will host a webinar featuring one of the great champions of secure code, Mr. Michael Howard. For more information and to register for this event see: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/551297622 More on the webinar: FedCyber.com is pleased to announc...
A recent article in Foreign Policy magazine is a wake up call for companies who are unaware of a cyberwar being waged right under their noses. According to the author Joel Brenner, a retired intelligence official from the U.S. National Security Agency, criminals, hackers and terrorist groups a...
via The Telegraph Letters sent by Virgin Media to broadband customers offer instructions on how to remove the SpyEye Trojan and avoid further security threats. The warnings are based on intelligence gathered by SOCA officers while investigating the cyber crime underground. They collected lists of IP...
via Nextgov Federal officials on Wednesday released a list of 137 government data centers slated to close by the end of the year.The information they hold will either be consolidated into other data centers or moved to rented space in a public or private cloud. Thirty-nine of those data centers alre...
via the Daily Telegraph The internet was never meant to do sensitive banking transactions, cyber criminals are winning the war against online security and Australia’s easy going nature is making us vulnerable targets to ever-more sophisticated internet thugs. That was San Francisco-based inter...
On Friday, 16 December, Michael Howard hosted a webinar for FedCyber on the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). Michael is a Principal Cybersecurity Architect on the Microsoft Services Cybersecurity Team, and the author of many software security books, including the award-winning Writing...