Cybersecurity Solution for Anonymous: Hire Hackers vs. 20 Years Jail Time?

Cybersecurity Solution for Anonymous: Hire Hackers vs. 20 Years Jail Time? Network World I stopped on Terry Zink's Cyber Security Blog and watched the TED video, Hire the hackers! Misha Glenny is, among other things, a journalist and "underworld investigator." This TED talk, Hire the hackers! opens with a clip from Anonymous. ...

Veracode to Participate in Multiple IT and Cyber Security Events in September MarketWatch (press release) Key Veracode spokespeople including Christien Rioux, Chris Wysopal, Chris Eng and Tyler Shields will cover topics ranging from emerging cyber security threats and the Mobile App Top 10, to application security debt and application interest rates. ...

10 ways to deal with cybersecurity in a smart grid world GigaOm 16, 2011, 12:00am PT No Comments Cybersecurity — the word inspires fear and has become an urgent topic of discussion in the energy world. The US Department of Energy released a report this week that aims to help public and private sectors figure out ...

Critical UK Cyber Security Report Hits As Maude Misses eWEEK Europe UK Independently compiled advice on securing the national infrastructure from Chatham House was set for release in anticipation of the government's publication of its Cyber Security Strategy document. But things did not go quite to plan. ...

Symmetricom to Present at B. Riley Optical Defense and Cybersecurity ... MarketWatch (press release) ... today announced that Dan Scharre, executive vice president and general manager, Government Business Unit, and Justin Spencer, chief financial officer, will present at the B. Riley Optical Defense and Cybersecurity Conference on Tuesday, Sept. ...

Salient Federal Solutions Awarded United States Air Force WRAP Contract PR Newswire (press release) "We look forward to partnering with the Air Force to meet the US Government's goal of securely implementing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) by 2014," said Salient's cyber security leader Lisa Donnan. "Our Assure6™ intrusion prevention system will ...

Cybersecurity Is a People Problem EBN The issue of cybersecurity touched off a hot discussion here, so I thought I'd share a few more things I learned from talking with Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ)'s Rebecca Lawson earlier in the week. (See: Is Social Networking Increasing Cyberthreats? ...

Cyber-Threats Continue to Target the Financial Industry eWeek Still, despite the best efforts of local, state and federal law enforcement, these cyber-criminals show no signs of slowing down, according to new Congressional testimony by some of the country's leading cyber-security experts. ...

Congress Could Make Facebooking at Work a Felony The Atlantic Wire That's what The Wall Street Journal's Orin Kerr thinks the latest cyber-securitylegislation will lead to: An assault on checking Facebook at work. Today the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on proposed changes to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, ...

Michigan Merges Physical and Cyber-Security Offices Government Technology The move — announced Wednesday, Sept 14, by the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget (DTMB) — combines the DTMB's emergency management, physical security and cyber security offices into a single Cybersecurity and Infrastructure ...

Loyola University Maryland to Launch Cybersecurity Certificate Program for ... PR Web (press release) Part-time, one-year program geared toward experienced professionals seeking management-level certification and enhanced skills in cybersecurity and information assurance. “Our goal is to train the future leaders of organizations about the importance of ...

Cyber Security Week to begin Ceylon Daily News All arrangements are underway to hold Cyber Security Week (CSW) 2011 in the third week of October with a new look to the programme, Senior Information Security Engineer Rohana Palliyaguru told the Daily News. The National Cyber Security Awareness Week ...

The Sisyphean Task Nextgov During the last several days, as I listened in various fora to experts and policymakers discuss cybersecurity, I realized that our current efforts may be dooming us to a Sisyphean task. Over the years, we have talked about progress and seen report ...

Smaller Firms Outsource Cyber Security MarketWatch Ever-more fearful of cyberattacks, small and medium-size companies, the biggest chunk of US enterprise, are starting to outsource their security to protect valuable files from hacking. John Bussey has details on The News Hub.

US needs better ways to ID grid-related cyber-security threats: FERC Greenbang (NERC) revise current standards to ensure a more comprehensive approach toward protecting the grid from cyber-security breaches. FERC is proposing revisions to eight critical infrastructure protection reliability standards, including a new method of ...

Frontier Communications to recognize Protect Our Kids Week, Sept. 16-25 White Mountain Independent To help parents, school staff and community leaders become better acquainted with cyber security, Frontier teams will be sharing information with schools and at local events in which they are participating. In the White Mountains, Frontier teams will ...

HP protects enterprise applications ITWeb (blog) According to the HP Digital Vaccine Labs' (DVLabs) mid-year 2011 Cyber Security Risks Report, the number of Web application attacks in just the first half of 2011 has already surpassed the total number of attacks tracked in 2009, and is also 65% higher ...

FISMA Mandates Monthly Security Reports For Agencies InformationWeek Move from annual reports to consistent CyberScope submissions expected to lighten agencies' compliance burden, tighten federal cybersecurity. By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek Federal agencies must begin reporting security data to an online ...

Maryland Cyber Challenge founding partner SAIC to offer internships and ... Citybizlist (press release) ... of Business & Economic Development (DBED), the Tech Council of Maryland (TCM) and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) with the goal of encouraging Maryland students and young professionals to pursue education and careers in cybersecurity. ...

Government unveils plans to shake up GCSE and A-Level ICT courses V3.co.uk The director of the Cyber Security Challenge, Judy Baker, added it was important to make sure the courses would train youngsters in order to help the UK secure its cyber future against growing outside threats. "If we are to plug existing skills gaps ...

U.S. CTO Requests Online Access to Consumer Energy Data Greentech Media (blog) His office is "extraordinarily concerned about cybersecurity in the grid." He's also demand response-savvy or at least understands the term. According to Chopra, "FERC claims we can lower energy consumption with demand reponse by 20 percent. ...

US, Australia unite against cyber security threat Peninsula On-line Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith, in a statement ahead of the talks, called cybersecurity“the key emerging transnational threat of the 21st century.” The Pacific allies have gradually been expanding fields of cooperation with Australian ...

Cyberterrorism a threat that won't go away UPI.com "Many only pay attention to it after something unpleasant has happened to them or a competitor and they realize they have to pay attention, perhaps throw some money at the problem," said David Clemente, a cybersecurity expert at the organization. ...

Wall Street Protesters Vow to Occupy Lower Manhattan for Months BusinessWeek Protests also are planned for financial districts in Madrid, Milan, London and Paris, according to a bulletin from the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center obtained by Bloomberg News. The NCCIC is part of the Department of ...

Globalstar... A Date In December (Satellites) SatNews Publishers This year will see the addition of new topics including; UAS and Cyber Security. Taking place on days two and three of the conference, these sessions have been designated to ensure you are kept up-to-date with the latest developments from across the ...

The trickle-down effects of advanced persistent threats SC Magazine UK Many professionals believe they are already taking the necessary action to protect themselves, and cyber security is still the most pressing concern for organisations of any size. Businesses are reporting significant losses resulting from attacks, ...

10 ways to deal with cybersecurity in a smart grid world – GigaOm ... By U.S. Dept. of Energy - Staff Correspondent 10 ways to deal with cybersecurity in a smart grid worldGigaOm16, 2011, 12:00am PT No CommentsCybersecurity — the word inspires fear and has become an urgent topic of discussion in the energy world. The US Department of Energy ... PCHC International Institute

New AVG report on state of cybersecurity: today and tomorrow By JR Smith I have long maintained that we can't defend ourselves against cybercrime with technology alone. We also need education that can inform how we behave online, for often it's our actions that determine whether or not hackers succeed in ... AVG

DHS seeks to share top-secret info with banking and finance ... By Ryan “To achieve our shared goals, we need to increase the sharing of timely and relevant intelligence information concerning cybersecurity threats with financial sector stakeholders,” says DHS Acting Deputy Under Secretary Greg Schaffer of the ... FedCyber.com

Former Government Officials Stand To Profit From Cybersecurity Boom As former director of the National Security Agency and former director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell is widely portrayed as an authoritative voice on ... www.huffingtonpost.com/.../former-government-officials-cyb...

DSEi: UAE to Acquire EADS Cybersecurity System - Defense News LONDON -EADS has won a contract with its joint venture partner to supply its Ectocryp cryptographic product for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) armed forces ... www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=7670218&c=EUR...

STATE OF ALABAMA - Cyber Security - Home This Cyber Pledge contest is one of several initiatives recognizing National Cyber SecurityAwareness Month. Affirm that you will take security seriously and use ... www.cybersecurity.alabama.gov/

EU cybersecurity agency Enisa publishes report on app store ... European Union cybersecurity agency Enisa has published a report on app store security that advocates a baseline set of five lines of defence against malware. www.computerweekly.com/.../EU-cybersecurity-agency-Enisa...

Companies with Poor Cyber Security May Be Missing Link in ... Read 'Companies with Poor Cyber Security May Be Missing Link in Personal Identity Theft' on Yahoo! News. COMMENTARY | Cyber-criminals be advised: ... news.yahoo.com/companies-poor-cyber-security-may-missing...

Cyber Security - CTOvision.com This higher order approach to cyber security requires vision, leadership, and actions in ... Most of what we see in day-to-day cybersecurity is not cyberwar, or the ... ctovision.com/cyber-initiative/