Draft legislation that proposes the establishment of a so-called National Information Sharing Organization will be the subject of a hearing to be held Tuesday by the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies. The not-for-profit Nat...
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via Network World The Department of Homeland Security works with financial institutions to thwart cyber attacks and plans to do so more and more in the future, according to DHS testimony to Congress, including sharing top secret cyber intelligence. “To achieve our shared goals, we need to incr...
via LA Times A major cyber-attack in Europe that apparently was launched from Iran has revealed significant vulnerabilities in the Internet security systems used to authenticate websites for banking, email and e-commerce around the world. The attack this summer wreaked havoc in the Netherlands, w...
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 Security News Daily Sony, the data-security firm RSA, Lockheed Martin, the email wholesaler Epsilon, the Fox broadcast network, NASA, PBS, the European Space Agency, the FBI, the British and French treasuries — and, just this morning, the banking and insurance giant Citigroup. What do all ...
via Fox News Nearly every smartphone running the Google Android platform today is readily vulnerable to data snoops and cyberthieves, who can easily pluck information from them over ordinary Wi-Fi networks, German security experts discovered. And as consumers increasingly rely upon their phones for ...
via Gov Info Security Recognizing the reality of cyberthreats doesn’t mean that organizations take the proper actions to prevent them. That’s a takeaway of a new survey of IT security executives in energy sector conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (the public ...
via BND.com COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The United States is still “hugely vulnerable” to cyber attacks, but so are most other nations, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday. “We’re way late” in preparing to defend critical computer systems from...