Cybersecurity incidents continue to increase

Cybersecurity incidents continue to increase
The Sun Daily
KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 20, 2011): Cybersecurity incidents reported to Cyber999 from January to August 2011 totalled 10700 compared with just 8090 for the whole of last year. CyberSecurityMalaysia Chief Executive Officer Datuk Husin Jazri said the number ...
Cigital Aids Development of Cyber Security and Risk Mitigation Plan
TMC Net
By Anuradha Shukla Cigital has released the Guide to Developing a Cyber Security and Risk Mitigation Plan. Cigital, a provider of software security services has partnered with the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) to develop this ...
New charity initiative seeks to improve security awareness
ZDNet Asia
By Ellyne Phneah , ZDNet Asia on September 20, 2011 (5 hours ago) Non-profit organization (ISC)2 sets up foundation with aim to provide cybersecurity user education, programs and research to consumers. A new charitable organization, (ISC)² Foundation, ...
Former cybersecurity czar Clarke says smartphones, digital certificates create ...
Network World
By Ellen Messmer, Network World Former White House cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke, author of the book "Cyber War," served 19 years in the Pentagon, intelligence community and State Department. At the firm he founded, Good Harbor Consulting, ...
Online information needs better protection
Baltimore Sun
In May, the Obama administration submitted a comprehensive cybersecurity legislative proposal to Congress. Among other provisions, this package included a requirement that would standardize, simplify and harmonize the data breach notification ...
Don't trust SSL certificates, says US cybersecurity adviser
Techworld.com
By Ellen Messmer | Network World US | Published: 14:51, 20 September 2011 Former White Housecybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke views hacktivist group Anonymous "more positively than most people", and insists that digital SSL certificates cannot be ...
Security firms' plan targets cyberthreats
UPI.com
Both government and corporate funding into cybersecurity has increased globally as defense spending on conventional weapons has slowed. The defense and security industry sees cybersecurity as a major earner, making up for some of the lost business in ...
Experts take part in cyber security forum
The Citizen Daily
An international forum on cyber security that kicked off on Saturday and drew over 1000 internet security experts to Budapest, Hungary's capital, ended on Sunday. The two-day event, first held in 2003, has become the largest gathering of its kind in ...
Bringing Government and Private Sector Together for Cybersecurity
IT Business Edge (blog)
By date: I saw a press release headline last week that said the private sector is endangering national cybersecurity in the United Kingdom. a marked lack of uniformity and consistency in policy and practice, such that it would be very difficult to ...
Cyber security luncheon
San Antonio Express (blog)
Air Force Brig. Gen. Ian R. Dickinson will be the guest speaker during a luncheon of the local Alamo Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association at from 11 am to 1 pm, Tuesday at the Doubletree Hotel, 37 NE Loop 410....
Advanced Cyber Security Center Launch Conference Materials
JD Supra (press release)
In a world where people's lives are played out increasingly on line -- and their personal information is stored in far-flung electronic locations -- lawmakers in the United States have until recently largely focused their response on safeguarding the ...
CyberLympics Championships hit Gitex
ITP.net
"Cyber security is one of the clear priorities for many businesses operating not just in this region, but around the world. The Cyber Security @ GITEX feature will help to ensure that small and medium enterprises, larger organisations and members of ...
Ernst & Young Gold Sponsor of 2011 MENA Information Security Conference
Ammon News
The conference, being held under the patronage of HE Minister of Information and Communication Technology Eng. Atef Al Tal, and entitled “The Future of Cyber Security”, brings together IT security experts to discuss the industry's most pressing issues. ...
Reconstructing the web
News@Northeastern
Edmund Yeh, a new associate professor in College of Engineering, is researching solutions to global challenges in areas such as cyber security and smart power grids. Photo by Christopher Huang. Edmund Yeh wants to give the architecture of the Internet ...
Insensibility to ID leakage
Korea Times
The government should introduce measures to strengthen cyber security. Legislation is necessary to make it prohibitively expensive for entities to collect personal information from subscribers. Seoul needs to initiate talks with Pyongyang for an ...
Regional Cooperation Contributes In Countering Terrorism
Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 (Bernama) -- Regional cooperation has contributed immensely in countering the menace of terrorism including terrorism financing in cyber-security, aviation, maritime and transportation security as well as rehabilitation. ...
Cyber Defence Summit kicks off in Abu Dhabi
AME Info
... the event is hosting key regional stakeholders from four sectors of the economy - oil and gas, telecommunications, utilities and banks - to explore the importance and increased demand for cyber security services and solutions in the GCC. ...
Richard Clarke: Patriot Act not our biggest privacy threat
CBS News
In an increasingly digital world, the real threat to citizens' privacy is data collection by corporations and not the Patriot Act, said former US cybersecurity and counterterrorism advisor Richard Clarke. Clarke, who ruffled Bush administration ...
Proposal to rank applications on security
The Mobile Indian
... New Delhi, September 20, 2011 ENISA, a European agency for security of network and information technology, has proposed a five step process that application stores should adopt to protect smartphone users from cyber security threats. ...
Capital arming against hackers
The National
GCC countries are investing heavily in the area of cyber security, according to the research company Frost & Sullivan. The company said Saudi Arabia had assigned a budget of US$33 billion (Dh121.2bn) on IT cyber security for the period 2007 to 2018....
County Taps TEM Firm to Slash Wireless Bills
Mobile Enterprise
The County of Riverside, Calif., is contracting with wireless mobility management and cybersecuritysolutions provider WidePoint Corporation, via its iSYS subsidiary, for wireless telecom bill auditing and costs reduction services under iSYS' ...
Hackers Post INSA Member Information After Security Group's Cyber Defense Report
DailyTech
After several hacks launched against Sony as well as government sites for the CIA and the Pentagon, it's becoming clear that cyber security is a growing concern. Last week, the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA), which is a nonprofit ...
7 Lessons: Surviving A Zero-Day Attack
InformationWeek
When the intruders tried to recreate and elevate account privileges, this action triggered an alarm, alerting the lab's cybersecurity team. Within hours, the lab made the decision to disconnect its network in order to sever the hackers' communications ...
Japan  tells arms supplier to probe cyber attack
Reuters
Professor Yoshiyasu Takefuji, a cyber-security expert at Keio University, said this was the first example of defense-related cyber attack in Japan and had to be taken seriously. "This happened a month ago, and it's just in the last few days they ...
FTSE live: market report - as it happened September 20, 2011
Telegraph.co.uk
Goldman thought that Ultra - which makes sonars to help submarines detect each other as well as aerospace and cyber-security products - is the “most strategically valuable asset in Europe's defence industry”. “It has the highest share of its sales ...

Michigan merges physical, digital security functions
GCN.com
Lohrmann will report to state CIO David Behen, who will be director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection, the article added. The merged operations should be final by Oct. 1, according to a state official, the story said.
ESET's NOD32 Wins Information Security Magazine and SearchSecurity.com 2011 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
ESET NOD32 Antivirus consistently achieves the highest accolades in all types of comparative testing, and powers the virus and spyware detection in ESET Smart Security and ESETCybersecurity for Mac. Sold in more than 180 countries, ESET's global ...
Raytheon Company (RTN) Given "Neutral" Rating by Zacks Investment Research ...
LocalizedUSA
Future growth will be driven by its focus on ISR unmanned systems, training, cyber security, Standard Missile-6, Patriot, Zumwalt and THAAD. This is, however, offset by apprehensions over future growth of the US defense budget, the fate of high-cost ...
Bit9 Adds Former U.S. Cyber Security Czar to Board of Directors ...
By Mike Lennon
Bit9, a provider of application whitelisting security solutions, today announced that Richard Clarke, former Cybersecurity Czar for President George W. Bush, has joined the company's Board of Directors.
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ASIS 2011 – Wealth of Info for Cybersecurity and Physical Security ...
By Continuity_Compliance
One of the major areas of concern for both many of our readers as well as probably the majority of those visitors to the ASIS 2011 Conference involves cyber security and cybercrime. At this year's ASIS 2011, security experts will explore the ...
Continuity Compliance
China and Information vs Cyber Security
By bobgourley
China and Information vs Cyber Security. via the Council on Foreign Relations. On Monday, China, along with Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, asked UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to circulate their proposed International Code of ...
CTOlabs
Former US cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke says smartphones ...
Veteran of US Govt IT security gives a state-of-the-security-world interview.
Computerworld
Chemical Facility Security News: HR 2219 – Senate Language ...
By PJCoyle
The cyber security provisions from the House Report on the bill that I discussed in an earlier blog will still apply to DOD, almost regardless of what happens on the Senate floor or in Conference. The various reports to Congress will still have to ...
Chemical Facility Security News
Department of Energy Releases New Roadmap to Guide Public ...
“The Roadmap, in addition to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation's (NERC's) current efforts, proactively addresses evolving cybersecurity threats ...
www.doe.gov/.../department-energy-releases-new-roadmap-gu...
FBI — Cyber Security: Threats to the Financial Sector
Cyber Security: Threats to the Financial Sector ..... in the Comprehensive National CybersecurityInitiative (CNCI), the interagency strategy to protect our digital ...
www.fbi.gov/.../cyber-security-threats-to-the-financial-sector

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