“Canada and the United States announced Friday they were launching a joint cybsersecurity plan to protect their digital infrastructure from online threats. The action plan, under the auspices of the US Department of Homeland Security and Public Safety Canada, aims to better protect critical di...
via National League of Cities From the White House to Congress, federal leaders are looking at a range of policy options to bolster the United States’ ability to thwart Internet threats ranging from cybercrime to terrorist activity. With the White House having released a cybersecurity proposal...
via The Telegraph Letters sent by Virgin Media to broadband customers offer instructions on how to remove the SpyEye Trojan and avoid further security threats. The warnings are based on intelligence gathered by SOCA officers while investigating the cyber crime underground. They collected lists of IP...
via VentureBeat FBI director Robert Mueller told Congress today that the bureau intends to ramp up its focus on battling cyber attacks and threats during the next two years, according to Bloomberg. “We will increasingly put emphasis on addressing cyber threats in all of their variations,”...
via Associated Free Press SAN FRANCISCO — The agency in charge of the world’s Internet addresses on Thursday appointed veteran hacker Jeff Moss to be its chief of security. Moss, whose hacker name is Dark Tangent, is the founder of Black Hat computer security conferences as well as an infamo...
via NextGov The Defense Department is building a database to cull traffic from networks across government and other sectors, which will participate on a voluntary basis, to develop a fuller view of online threats, a top Defense official said. U.S. Cyber Command, the Defense Department’s new jo...