Obama Administration Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt outlined priorities for agencies to secure federal IT systems. Goals include 95 percent utilization of critical administration cybersecurity capabilities on IT systems, continuous monitoring, and strong authentication. More here. Secre...
China’s New Year celebration last month wasn’t a holiday just for the Chinese. It was also a brief respite for the thousands of specialists who defend America’s military and intelligence networks, since the volume of cyber attacks always seems to fall off when the Middle Kingdom is...
Long Island’s business and technology leaders began an effort Tuesday to start a new industry here that would focus on protecting companies, government agencies and individuals from cyber attacks that have been increasingly causing chaos in the financial world and other industries. More than 1...
A recent article in Foreign Policy magazine is a wake up call for companies who are unaware of a cyberwar being waged right under their noses. According to the author Joel Brenner, a retired intelligence official from the U.S. National Security Agency, criminals, hackers and terrorist groups a...
via LA Times A major cyber-attack in Europe that apparently was launched from Iran has revealed significant vulnerabilities in the Internet security systems used to authenticate websites for banking, email and e-commerce around the world. The attack this summer wreaked havoc in the Netherlands, w...
via Military.com ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The new academic year marks the beginning of the Naval Academy’s new cyber security curriculum, in which midshipmen are required to take classes that will enhance their knowledge of cyber warfare and the threat it poses to national security. Discussion o...
via Daily Tech Cyber security has become an increasingly important issue in recent years due to the number of attacks launched against corporations and governments around the world. For instance, hacker groups LulzSec and Anonymous as well as others have broken into several corporate websites/record...
A security expert has claimed that the UK is devoting most of its cyber crime fighting efforts to cyber attack, leaving limited resources for defence. Speaking exclusively to Computing, Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at the Cambridge University computer laboratory, stated that 90 p...