Cybersecurity - more questions than answers arising out of the London conference

Cybersecurity - more questions than answers arising out of the London conference
TheRandomFact.com
Cybersecurity is now designated a “tier one” risk in the UK government's last strategic defence and security review. In addition to cyber security and cyber crime, the conference agenda included digital espionage and surveillance. ...
London cybersecurity conference: a missed opportunity?
ComputerWeekly.com (blog)
By Bryan Glick on November 4, 2011 11:39 AM | No Comments World leaders gathered in London this week. Our prime minister and foreign secretary hosted all the luminaries and dignitaries. Senior politicians and diplomats from around the world were there, ...
Huge Internet Attack on Corporations Good News for Cybersecurity Stocks
Money Morning
By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning The so-called "Nitro" digital data blitz on 48 chemical companies in the United States and the United Kingdom is the latest expansion of acybersecurity pandemic that's stripping companies of billions in ...
Revere Security Selected as a Leading Cyber Security Innovator
PR Newswire (press release)
More than 100 emerging technology companies applied and were thoroughly vetted in a two-stage process by the SINET Showcase Steering Committee for the opportunity to present innovative and potentially disruptive cyber security solutions to an audience ...
San Antonio will have big voice on Texas' new cybersecurity council
San Antonio Business Journal
UTSA associate professor Gregory White says the planned report by the cybersecurity council "will just be the start." San Antonio has a significant presence on a new state council charged with finding ways to improve the infrastructure of Texas' ...
Students Trade Hacking for US Scholarships
Bloomberg
Graduates are in demand at the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division, which seeks to reduce cyber threats and responds to incidents, said Deputy Director Nicole Dean. In three years, the unit has grown to more than 300 ...
NIST releases new Smart Grid roadmap
FederalNewsRadio.com
NIST has released a new roadmap for building the Smart Grid, adding a new list of standards,cybersecurity guidance and product testing proposals. When finished, that system will let devices using electricity communicate with each other over power ...
Funding Bill Invests in Cyber Jobs
Nextgov
By Brittany Ballenstedt 11/03/11 12:17 pm ET A funding bill that would expand federal cybersecurityjobs and invest in scholarships for prospective cyber workers passed the Senate on Wednesday. The Senate passed the fiscal 2012 Commerce, ...
Survey: Three Of Four Companies Say They're 'Likely' To Be Hit By Cyber Attack ...
NetworkComputing.com
Lastly, ESG calls upon the US Congress to aggregate multiple cybersecurity bills, get them passed and "extend federal programs and resources to a wider audience." “There are number of bills. Most of them are in committee. They stay in committee,” ...
Made in Tompkins: Company helps police bust computer criminals
Ithaca Journal
ATC-NY General Manager Julie Baker and Technical Director of Cyber Security Stephen Brueckner work on Cyber Marshal Training, the company's new online computer forensics training product. Tompkins County workers make a stunning array of things from ...
We're Not A Front For Anyone & We're Not Funded By Google
MediaNama.com
By Nikhil Pahwa on Nov 4th, 2011 | Comments Off It appears that Gulshan Rai, the head of India'sCybersecurity body CERT-in, at a cyber security conference accused us at MediaNama of being a front for Google because we spoke up against India's ...
Lunarline, Inc. Supports New FCC Website to Advance Open Government Policy and ...
Sacramento Bee
Cyber security support was also provided for security engineering and security fixes with OS, applications, databases and software code. "We were pleased to work with Lunarline on the redesign and launch of FCC.gov," said Ali Reza Manouchehri, ...
Am I Hacker Proof Free
Android Apps
Built- in tools – Ping, Traceroute, Whois, ISP/E-mail Service Providers database and real time cyber security news feeds. - You get an email letting you know the number of vulnerabilities found on that IP address, but does not give you a complete ...
Phantom Cyber Wars are a Distraction
Forbes
One example of the crisis of causality in cybersecurity is the “attribution problem”–ie it is difficult to uncover the perpetrator of a cyber attack with certainty. But growing fear of cyber threats is also indicative of a more general attribution ...
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Announces Third Quarter Financial Results
MarketWatch (press release)
The third quarter adjusted EBITDA rate of 14.0% also reflects a favorable program and contract mix for the quarter, including in the Cyber Security, Electronic Warfare, Electronic Attack and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance related ...
Digital Systems Press Captures Four Awards from USA Book News
Sacramento Bee
In this role, he spearheads the company's technology development initiatives focused on building innovative software products for applications ranging from cyber security to networked robotics. Under his leadership the research and development group at ...
Europe and US Carry Out Joint Cyber Attack "Stress Test"
Gizmodo
A bunch of cyber security experts from the EU and the US have been messing about with some pretend cyber attack scenarios, making plans for what would happen in the event of a proper, damaging electronic attack. The roleplay manoeuvres are based around ...
Nov 5: the end of Facebook? No! The start of Kiwicon...
Naked Security
This weekend, more than 600 cybersecurity experts from Asia Pacific and beyond will attend Kiwicon V for a weekend of conferencing, conversation and conviviality. A wide range of topics will be covered, from the importance of using good-quality random ...
First joint EU-US cyber security exercise starts in Brussels
Telecompaper (subscription)
The first joint cyber security exercise between the EU and US was launched on 3 November in Brussels, with the support of the EU's cyber security Agency ENISA and the US Department of Homeland Security. The day-long table-top exercise, "Cyber Atlantic ...
City Briefs - November 4, 2011
Tacoma Weekly
University of Washington has won a $2.1 million federal grant to train graduate students in the burgeoning field of information assurance and cybersecurity. The four-year Scholarship for Service grant will eventually provide full-ride scholarships and ...
Cyber Atlantic 2011
Continuity Central (press release)
Two hypothetical scenarios were tested in Cyber Atlantic 2011: a cyber-attack which attempted to extract and publish online sensitive information from the EU's national cyber security agencies, and an attack on supervisory control and data acquisition ...
How Safe Is Your Cell Phone from Hackers?
Patch.com
Mt. SAC will kick off a two-day conference Tuesday on cyber security that is open to students, employees, and the community. This year's them for the annual conference is “Security on the Go,” and will feature presentations on security awareness, ...
London Cyberspace Conference: it's good to talk, but better to do
The Commentator
Economic growth, cyber security, and social benefit of the Internet were just some of the issues up for discussion. Overall the conference ticked along just fine and was generally seen as a success. I'm not about to disagree, as I do think that it went ...
Hope for the best. prepare for the worst. how your business can mitigate the ...
Lexology (registration)
However, Mr Lobban observes in his report that the challenges faced by cyber security are “not for the government alone”. Since the government announced this time last year that it had allocated £650 million to cyber security and resilience as part of ...
Smart Grid: Colorado gets a cyber security leadership 'attaboy'
Smart Grid - Cyber security expert Andy Bochman sends some sunshine to snowy Colorado for its decision to appoint a chief information security officer to handle policy setting and enforcement. And he's particularly.
SmartGridNews.com
EU and US team up for cybersecurity exercise | Security Threats ...
By feedback@zdnet.co.uk (Editors)
In the first joint exercise of its kind, agencies from Europe and the US took part in a day-long meeting to show how they would react to cyberattacks.
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Why a cybersecurity treaty is a pipe dream – The Citizen Lab
By Lidija Sabados
This entry was written by Lidija Sabados, posted on November 3, 2011 at 4:36 pm , filed under Latest News and tagged Cyber Security, United Kingdom, United States....
The Citizen Lab
Hanging with Hackers: NYU-Poly Will Open Cyber Security ...
... leader of its Cybersecurity Task Force. All events are free of charge but registration is required athttp://www.poly.edu/csaw2011/award_schedule. "We are encouraging all university students to join us during CSAW to explore cyber security ...
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Why We Need to Think Differently About Cyber Security | A Smarter ...
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The designers of Stuxnet are on the prowl again. Last year their computer worm sabotaged machines worldwide that were being used for uranium enrichment. Now,
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Cyber security attacks highlight the need for good defences | Captec ...
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Cyber security attacks highlight the need for good defences. Posted on November 4, 2011 by Steve Morton. In an article published in the Times Newspaper, the head of GCHQ, has highlighted the number of attempted cyber attacks on UK ...
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Hart House: Cyber-Security: Bytes, Frights & Spooks | Innis College ...
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CYBER-SECURITY: BYTES, FRIGHTS & SPOOKS. Presented by Hart House & the Hart House Debates Committee. DETAILS: Don't be afraid — protect yourself with information. Virtual actions have real consequences, and the threats that ...
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Hanging with Hackers: NYU-Poly Will Open Cyber Security ...
By lowes1
4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — For the first time, Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) will open the doors to its Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) to all students interested in digital privacy and security – not just the ...
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Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney General's ...
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The SANS Institute announced today that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney General's Office have won the 2011 U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for their innovative techniques in cyber law enforcement ...
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Kroll Fraud Solutions Blog – A Dialogue on Data Security » The ...
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Last week, Howard Schmidt, a cybersecurity coordinator and special assistant to the President, blogged about the White House efforts to advance legislation that.
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Rush to adopt mobile, cloud, social media creating security gaps ...
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If there is a good side to the security breaches at top firms such as Citibank, Sony and others this year, it is that it may have raised awareness of a disturbingly widespread lack of effective business cyber security measures despite the high cost ...
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US and Europe conduct joint tests to prepare for cyber-warfare
By Martin Bryant
In the scenario, several cyber security agencies had been monitoring the group closely for over a year. This led to cooperation between European countries which successfully defended against the attack. The US cooperated with the affected ...
The Next Web
US and EU hold first joint cybersecurity exercise - 11/3/2011 ...
The US and EU are holding their first joint cybersecurity exercise in Brussels on 3 November 2011, involving more than 20 EU member states and supported by ...
www.computerweekly.com/.../US-and-EU-hold-first-joint-cyb...
EU and US conduct first cybersecurity test - FT.com
The European Union and US on Thursday conducted their first joint cybersecurity exercise, ...announced the creation of a joint working group on cyber security. ...
www.ft.com/.../18ef64b6-063a-11e1-a079-00144feabdc0.htm...

Cisco Wins National Cybersecurity Innovation Award in Meeting the Need for ...
Sacramento Bee
3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The SANS Institute announced today that Cisco has won the 2011 US National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for developing and sharing with the IT community a scalable solution to the challenge of baking security into ...
EU and US cybersecurity experts stress-test defences
BBC News
EU and US cybersecurity officials have tested how they would co-ordinate their response to a hacking attack. The exercise in Brussels marked the first time the two bodies have role-played the scenario together. The stress tests follow a similar event ...
Hanging with Hackers: NYU-Poly Will Open Cyber Security Awareness Week Events ...
MarketWatch (press release)
CSAW will close with an awards ceremony with keynote speaker Don Proctor, Cisco senior vice president and leader of its Cybersecurity Task Force. All events are free of charge but registration is required at http://www.poly.edu/csaw2011/award_schedule ...
Baltimore cybersecurity firm raising $10M investment fund
Baltimore Sun (blog)
CyberPoint LLC, a privately held company with offices at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, is spearheading a planned $10 million investment fund that will seek to bring foreign cyber securitytechnologies for sale to federal government agencies. ...
Cyber Security: China Denies U.S. Hacking Allegations
IBTimes
By Alastair Stevenson | November 4, 2011 10:28 AM GMT China has once again denied allegations of cyber-espionage, describing a recent US report on online spying accusing the country of covert cyber-activity as "irresponsible. ...
Libya and cyber security at heart of debates
Europolitics.info
It's extraordinary how the cyber security bandwagon has picked up speed during the last six months or so. Governments are giving priority to cyber defence. A lot of work is being done in trying to improve communications between different agencies and ...

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