The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is facing a possible data breach thanks to the software it has been relying on to help process background checks for potential employees.
24 May 2013
The FBI has arrested a New York City police detective for stealing the login details of at least 30 people (including 21 NYPD employees, 19 of them officers), across 43 email accounts and one cell phone. He did it by hiring a contract hit man, of sorts.
23 May 2013
With many organizations rushing to formulate their own advanced persistent threat (APT) prevention plans, recent data show that a lack of attention to systematically managing cryptographic keys and certificates is still leaving the attack door wide open.
23 May 2013
A Congressional survey of utility companies shows that the US electric grid is warding off “daily,” “constant” and “frequent” cyber-attacks, including one power company that reported it is the target of around 10,000 attempted attacks each month.
22 May 2013
BYOD as a security issue has largely focused on the business arena – the dangers inherent in allowing personal smartphones and tablets to connect to the corporate network. But mobile devices have been adopted as a way of life with youngsters, and in some ways education has led the BYOD phenomenon.
22 May 2013
Prosecutors have reduced the charges in the case against the Army GI who released more than 700,000 classified government documents to the WikiLeaks site.
21 May 2013
The group of Chinese cyber-espionage hackers reportedly operating as an arm of the People’s Liberation Army is allegedly back at it, attacking a range of US enterprise and government targets to steal everything from technology blueprints to business plans to manufacturing information.
20 May 2013
In a move to comply with President Obama’s Executive Order on cybersecurity, the US General Services Administration (GSA) is issuing a request for information (RFI) calling for input on ways to make the federal government's cybersecurity more resilient.
20 May 2013
Critical infrastructure threats are up significantly according to US officials – a worrying state of affairs that spans a wide range of threat vectors and potential participants.
16 May 2013
The European Union could soon consider a proposal that would give law enforcement the ability to engage in “offensive hacking,” i.e., compromise private infrastructure and systems to gather information via spyware, delete data or even take servers offline completely when there is probable cause to suspect cybercriminal activity.
16 May 2013