via The Hill The number of attacks on federal government networks rose 40 percent last year according to a new White House report on cybersecurity. Federal agencies reported 41,776 attacks in fiscal 2010 after seeing 30,000 the previous year, according to the Office of Management and Budget’s ...
via The Hill The number of attacks on federal government networks rose 40 percent last year according to a new White House report on cybersecurity. Federal agencies reported 41,776 attacks in fiscal 2010 after seeing 30,000 the previous year, according to the Office of Management and Budget’s ...
via V3.co.uk Hackers have infiltrated over 150 computers in the French finance ministry in an attempt to steal documents relating to the country’s presidency of the G20 Summit in February, according to reports. In another indication of the growing cyber threat to sovereign nations, hackers als...
via Computerworld From malware on Google’s Android phones to the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency trying to understand how stories or narratives impact security and human behavior, the security world certainly is never boring. Here we take a look at 20 security stories that have ...
via domain-b The head of the US National Security Agency (NSA) has urged top computer security specialists to harden the nation’s critical infrastructure against ”inevitable” destructive cyber attacks. “This is an important time,” Gen Keith Alexander, who is also the he...
via PCWorld Since the dawn of computing there’s been a cold war between those who run computer systems and those who attack them. And never the twain shall meet–at least until now. Speaking at the ShmooCon hacker convention in Washinton, D.C., Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (D...
via InformationWeek Insider threats, botnets and malware, and research to support the Comprehensive National Cyber Initiative (CNCI) are among areas of cybersecurity investment the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will make in fiscal year 2011. The DHS Science and Technology Homeland Security A...
via eWeek Researchers at Imperva have discovered administrative access to numerous military, government and education Websites being advertised on an underground hacker forum. The owners of the sites have all been notified of the situation, Imperva told eWEEK. Among them are sites belonging to the D...