By AlexOlesker Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking “mathematical and computational models that predict whether a person is likely to commit suicide” and to detect homicidal intent. More here. Th...
A “distributed denial of service” attack – or what security gurus call a DDoS attack – is a little like what happens to Groundhog.org on Groundhog Day. For 364 days out of the year, nobody cares about groundhog fun facts. And then on Groundhog Day-BOOM! Third-graders, Bill Mu...
via CIO.com.au It’s unlikely 2011 will go down in history as a great year for information security. The year is barely half over but already we have witnessed some of the largest hacking attacks since the advent of computing. So far, media organisations, game companies, banks and governments h...
via Reuters U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid urged Republican leaders on Wednesday to resume work on a massive cybersecurity bill aimed at combating breaches and theft from U.S. companies and government networks, and Republicans agreed. Reid, a Democrat, said in a letter to Senate Republican l...
via AFP Hackers infected computers, derailed websites, and plundered networks in a memorably miserable quarter, according to a report released Wednesday by Internet security firm PandaLabs. Hacking groups Lulz Security and Anonymous caused “widespread mayhem” during the three months endi...
via Reuters Last month the Obama administration pressed Congress to pass stronger cybersecurity measures, including a doubling of the maximum sentence for potentially endangering national security to 20 years in prison. While it remains to be seen if the proposal will become law, the question of how...
via Forbes As old-fashioned exchanges have given way to high-tech trading systems, it wasn’t shocking earlier this year to learn that hackers had broken into Nasdaq. But there have been several more high-profile hacks, including one targeting Citigroup and today’s hack attack on the CIA....
via International Business Times Since claiming that only one per cent of its 21 million customers were affected by the recently revealed cyber attack its suffered, Citibank has since revealed that as many as 360,000 of its customers accounts may have been compromised. The figure was released yester...