Major Internet Service Providers including AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon have agreed to the FCC’s Communications, Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) plan to fight botnets, domain name fraud and Internet route hijacking. More here. David McClur...
The U.S. is invoking Cold War-era national-security powers to force telecommunication companies including AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) to divulge confidential information about their networks in a hunt for Chinese cyber-spying. In a survey distributed this year, the U.S. Comm...
via Los Angeles Times The cyber-security industry is on Defcon 1 high alert. The recent rash of attacks on dozens of websites including those of the CIA, the FBI and even PBS is roiling the security industry and increasing demand for cyber-defense experts. “Every time one of these breaches mak...
via Government Computer News The National Security Agency, looking to protect another front of the cyber battlefield, is offering its own scanning tools to protect e-mail and other digital communications for major defense contractors, the Washington Post reports. NSA uses sophisticated data sets to ...
via Washington Technology Verizon Communications Inc. is preparing to ride a government wave to cloud computing. “I think we will see every federal agency this year do something with a cloud opportunity, and our sights will be targeted right at those,” said Susan Zeleniak, group presiden...
via The Hill The Senate Commerce Committee has postponed indefinitely a major hearing on cybersecurity. Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) announced that the hearing scheduled for Thursday on cyber vulnerabilities in the private sector will not be held. The FBI, Verizon and IBM were all scheduled to...
via Government Computer News Although the WikiLeaks incident moved the insider threat risk back to center stage, the essence of this message had already been steadily communicated in several cybersecurity initiatives, including the most recent 2010 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Reports based on...
via Silicon India News India: The year 2009 – 2011 has been potential years for cyber criminal all over the world. Threats to one’s data security have occupied a serious concern. Internal security is a painful arena to deal with. Symantec Internet Security Threat Report XVI revealed that...