Despite the increased frequency and severity of online crime and espionage in 2011, many American corporations and consumers are still not taking the threat seriously, the FBI’s top cyber official said Thursday....
If your power went out and everything stayed down, could you envision chaos and rioting? We’ve heard chaos and cyber mayhem tossed about frequently in the last couple weeks, so it may come as no surprise that Pike Research reported [PDF], “Utility cybersecurity is in a state of near cha...
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 Network World I’ve always thought hackers could save the world if they chose to, so a post on MSDN blogs my eye. I stopped on Terry Zink’s Cyber Security Blog and watched the TED video, Hire the hackers! Misha Glenny is, among other things, a journalist and “underworld investig...
via MSNBC Following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, many physical security systems in the United States underwent radical change. But what of our constantly growing online systems? Each new hacking attack and government revelation seems to indicate that national online defenses are weaker tha...
via Huffpost Tech The National Security Agency has a challenge for hackers who think they’re hot stuff: prove it by working on the “hardest problems on Earth.” Computer hacker skills are in great demand in the U.S. government to fight the cyber wars that pose a growing national sec...
via Security News Daily In mid-May, the Obama administration called on Congress to expand the definition of computer crime and to stiffen federal penalties for hacking into computer systems, doubling the maximum prison sentences for first-time offenses. The proposals were timely. They came soon afte...
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...