via The Hill The Senate Commerce Committee has postponed indefinitely a major hearing on cybersecurity. Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) announced that the hearing scheduled for Thursday on cyber vulnerabilities in the private sector will not be held. The FBI, Verizon and IBM were all scheduled to...
via news.cnet.com Sony acknowledged today that the personal information of its PlayStation Network customers has been compromised. The company posted an update on its blog today warning its more than 70 million customers that their personal information, including customer names, addresses, e-mail ad...
via KSRO Newstalk About a third of the FBI agents working on cyber investigations lack the networking and counterintelligence expertise to investigate national security intrusions, the Justice Department’s inspector general concluded in a new report. The report said the FBI’s practice of...
via InformationWeek Government Private sector representatives Friday urged the government to do more to bolster cybersecurity-related information sharing and collaboration between federal agencies like the Department of Homeland Security and companies that own and operate critical infrastructure. Th...
via GMA News A security breach that affected digital certificates issued by Internet security company Comodo has prompted an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI is focusing on how a hacker got a New Jersey, US-based company to issue the fraudulent certificates, tech s...
via cnet News The FBI said today that it’s not calling for restrictions on encryption without back doors for law enforcement. FBI general counsel Valerie Caproni told a congressional committee that the bureau’s push for expanded Internet wiretapping authority doesn’t mean giving la...
via FPTECHDESK Attacks against sensitive computer systems, such as those victimizing the Canadian government this week, pose a unique problem for law enforcement. The anonymous nature of Internet use means cyber attacks are virtually never traced back to their source, so those responsible can never ...