via Bloomberg The U.S. Department of Homeland Security ran a test this year to see how hard it was for hackers to corrupt workers and gain access to computer systems. Not very, it turned out. Staff secretly dropped computer discs and USB thumb drives in the parking lots of government buildings and p...
via The Wall Street Journal Companies are hiring chief information-security officers and spending ever-increasing sums to protect their communications networks and databases from attack. Bruce McConnell, a senior cybersecurity official with the Department of Homeland Security, sat down with The Wall...
via Defence Web China’s military has established a 30-person strong Internet security task force to protect China from cyber attacks. State media today reported that the ‘Blue Army’ was not intended to create a hacker force and would be used solely for defensive purposes. AFP reports that the ...
via NDIA Most experts seem to agree that the U.S. government’s collective efforts to secure the Internet from large-scale attacks and other nefarious activities are lacking. As for who is responsible for protecting this vital piece of infrastructure, the debate inside and outside the governmen...
via Intelligent Utility A recent report found little progress by the power industry over the past year in preventing cyber security attacks. First, let’s be clear. I’m aware of the potential self-interest when security companies produce alarming reports on cyber threats. But we’ve ...
via Government Computer News An interesting shift in this year’s McAfee report on critical infrastructure security is that the United States has gone from being the most feared nation for launching attacks to No. 3 this year, behind China and Russia. But if China is seen as the most offensive thre...
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 ABS-CBNNews WASHINGTON, USA – Cyber threats such as Stuxnet pose an increasing risk to critical infrastructure but many facilities around the world are unprepared to face the danger, according to a report released on Tuesday. “We found that the adoption of security measures in import...