“A self-professed leader of the computer hacker group Anonymous was arrested by authorities in Dallas, officials said on Thursday. ‘He was arrested and brought in for booking about 11 p.m. last night,’ said Dallas County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Carmen Castro.” Source: ...
Senior Obama administration officials and a bipartisan group of U.S. senators agreed on Wednesday to push for cybersecurity legislation as quickly as possible, the White House said on Thursday. White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said the officials went to Capitol Hill “to discuss the growi...
via ExecutiveGov The Defense Department plans to expand the sharing of classified cyber threat intelligence between the Pentagon and certain contracting firms to better secure commercial networks used for military purposes, Pentagon officials said. A test program, which ran from May 9 through Sept. ...
via The Hacker News The WikiLeaks website, which contains thousands of U.S. embassy cables, has crashed in an apparent cyberattack. The anti-secrecy organization said in a Twitter message Tuesday that Wikileaks.org “is presently under attack.” Wikileaks.org today released 250,000 U.S....
via SC Magazine Five days after RSA announced that its systems were breached by a sophisticated attack, details remain scant about how customers of its SecurID two-factor authentication products may be affected. Still, that hasn’t stopped many in the security community from speculating. Here a...
via Nextgov The CIA’s website, which crashed Thursday afternoon, was revived shortly before 11 a.m. Friday morning. The spy agency declined to discuss what might have caused the blackout, but Office of Management and Budget officials referred all questions to civilian cybersecurity authorities...