“Last month I convened an emergency meeting of my cabinet and top homeland security, intelligence and defense officials. Across the country trains had derailed, including one carrying industrial chemicals that exploded into a toxic cloud. Water treatment plants in several states had shut down,...
“The government is witnessing an uptick in assaults on the computers that control industrial operations such as power transmission and transportation, the top Homeland Security Department cybersecurity official said this week.” Source: Threats to Industrial Systems Are Growing, Says Home...
The Transportation Security Administration has several programs for sharing security information, but the availability and quality of information needs improvement, according to a Nov. 21 Government Accountability Office report (.pdf). The Homeland Security Information Sharing Network Critical Sec...
via Tampa Bay Online In March of this year, a large Southern California water system tested the effectiveness of its cyber defenses by hiring a cybersecurity team to try to hack its network, something called penetration testing. To official dismay, the team was able to seize control of the computers...
A cyber-terrorism attack could cripple America’s electric grid, shutting down everything from communications to transportation to law enforcement. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says such an attack could be America’s “next Pearl Harbor.” Are we prepared to protect our po...
Note: The article below is from the Pentagon’s news service. It was released in conjunction with the new DoD Cyber Strategy. Lynn: Cyber Strategy’s Thrust is Defensive By Karen Parrish American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, July 14, 2011 – In March, a cyber attack on a defense compa...
via The Tennessean More than 70 strategic business partners from corporations throughout the Southeast gathered on Wednesday at the headquarters of the Franklin Police Department as part of the FBI’s InfraGard program to discuss threats to, as well as ways to protect, the nation’s critical i...