A US House panel has approved legislation that would encourage critical infrastructure companies to adopt cybersecurity best practices and would give the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responsibility for safeguarding critical infrastructure cybersecurity.
02 February 2012
US critical infrastructure companies would need to spend nine times more on cybersecurity in order to prevent a surprise digital assault, according to a new report by Bloomberg Government and the Ponemon Institute.
02 February 2012
The Online Trust Alliance (OTA), an industry standards group, released this week its 2012 Data Protection and Breach Guide, which includes a review of 2011 data breaches and recommendations for businesses to prevent breaches and manage incidents.
26 January 2012
A survey by Freeform Dynamics shows that more than half of small and a fifth of medium sized businesses in Europe lack a formal disaster recovery plan.
13 January 2012
Qualys researcher Sergey Shekyan has published a proof-of-concept code that enables a slow HTTP denial-of-service (DoS) attack by dragging out the process of reading the server's response and overwhelming the server.
09 January 2012
Pastebin.com, a favorite venue for hacktivists, was shut down twice this week by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
06 January 2012
The PrivateX hacker group breached two Philippine government websites, the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI), on New Year’s Day.
03 January 2012
Based on its assessment that cyberattacks against critical infrastructure will increase next year, McAfee advises critical infrastructure companies to upgrade their cybersecurity infrastructure.
02 January 2012
The hacktivist group Anonymous claimed this week that it took down a dozen Egyptian government websites using distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in retaliation for the government’s treatment of protestors.
23 December 2011
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is getting $888 million to expand infrastructure protection and information security efforts in a $1 trillion fiscal year (FY) 2012 omnibus spending bill passed by Congress last week and signed into law by President Obama on Saturday.
20 December 2011