A few hacker teams do most China-based data theft

A few hacker teams do most China-based data theft Newsday ... 12 different Chinese groups, largely backed or directed by the government there, commit the bulk of the China-based cyberattacks stealing critical data from US companies and government agencies, according to US cybersecurity analysts and experts. ...

The Evolution of Online Data Access: Keeping It Secure TechNewsWorld For example, the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) introduced in 2002 brought much-needed attention to the critical nature of cybersecurity and its impact on national security within the federal government. ...

Cryptzone predicts Trends for 2012 Reuters (press release) In order to thwart cyber-security threats everyone within an organization needs to be more vigilant and equipped to take sensible precautions to better secure corporate information. Technology has to be kept as simple as possible for users to adopt as ...

The copyright lobby comeuppance The Hill (blog) They said they're concerned about the cybersecurity implications of the bill and fear it would lead to decreased investment in Internet startups. Since when does the conservative Republican Rep. Darrell Issa join with the liberal Democrat Rep. ...

Stories appearing in Monday's edition of the Herald-Whig Quincy Herald Whig CHINA-ATTACKS: US cybersecurity analysts and experts say as few as 12 different Chinese groups, largely backed or directed by the government there, do the bulk of the China-based cyberattacks stealing critical data from US companies and government ...

TeleCommunication Systems Unveils TCS TotalCom(TM) Portfolio MarketWatch (press release) Professional services, including deployable systems field support and other integrated logistics support, cyber security training and assessment, and continuity of operations capability (COOP) by TCS-certified and cleared personnel, who have served as ...

Security threats that will dominate 2012 FierceCIO Imperva: Forecasters at Imperva came up with nine cyber security predictions (see the complete list here), including a mass of attacks against SSL protocol infrastructure. Meanwhile, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks will move from the ...

Julia Gillard takes control of Australia's cyber security By Lee J 2011, the year of the hacker and hacktivist has pushed many governments from around the world to make changes to the national cyber security, make treaties with other countries and do an overall clean-up. Cyber War News

NetClaritys Founder & CTO to Speak at the Michigan Cyber Security ... By William Kirk Gary S. Miliefsky of NetClarity to Help Educate Law Enforcement How to Get One Step Ahead of the Latest Cyber Crime and Cyber War Threats Bedford, MA and. GCCNews.com

DOST joins UN ECOSOC's Event on Cybersecurity and ... By katherine The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) joined the United Nations (UN) Economic and Social Council's (ECOSOC) special event on Cybersecurity and Development through the Philippine Research, Education and Government ... PREGINET Pilipinas

Gillard takes on cyber security in cabinet reshuffle – CRN Australia ... By Blackmere Roxon appointed first female Attorney-General as McClelland sidelined. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has assumed responsibility for the Australian Government's cyber security policy in a wide-ranging reshuffle of federal cabinet announced this ... Blackmere Consulting

International Conference on Networks and Cyber Security 2012 ... By noreply@blogger.com (Santosh) ICNCS 2012, aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Networks, Systems and Cyber Security, and discuss ... Know a Fest - Campus Festivals in India

Cyber Strategies Revealed! | The IBM Institute for Advanced Security ... By Martin Borrett Back in October we published our own point of view on Cyber Security which you can find on the institute web site here –> http://www.instituteforadvancedsecurity.com/docs/CyberSecurity-protecting_the_Public_Sector.pdf . In it we assert that ... The IBM Institute for Advanced...

Why Cyber Security Awareness Should Be Your Number One ... By Lee One of the ways that we forget to take the lessons learned in our everyday life is when it comes to our security. While most people do not think that anything bad can happen to them, they do not put the chances of something bad happening to ... Security FAQs

Challenges in Cybersecurity – Risks, Strategies, and Confidence ... By Ruben Roex Challenges in Cybersecurity – Risks, Strategies, and Confidence-Building International Conference. December 12th, 2011 | Author: Ruben Roex. The threat from cyberattacks is increasingly perceived as a problem of national and international ... B-CCENTRE

IT Governance blog now available as web application For example, in his last blog post on 7th December 2011, titled EU Commission and the UK Cyber Security Strategy , Calder expresses a critical view on the new cyber security strategy and existing regulations. Alan Calder, who is an ... IT Governance - Latest News

Developing countries most vulnerable to cyberattacks — UN ... By Melvin Developing countries are at higher risk of being the target of cyberattacks, a United Nations-led forum on cybersecurity said on Friday, where experts discussed ways to mitigate the phenomenon at the national and international levels. ... Newsbytes Philippines

National cybersecurity [Dave Birch] I very much appreciated being invited along to speak at the Cyber Security Forum 2011 in London. I'm sorry that I couldn't get along to the first ... www.chyp.com/media/blog-entry/national-cybersecurity Gillard takes on cyber security in cabinet reshuffle iT News By James Hutchinson on Dec 12, 2011 10:18 AM (10 hours ago) Prime Minister Julia Gillard has assumed responsibility for the Australian Government's cyber security policy in a wide-ranging reshuffle of federal cabinet announced this morning. ... Government Cyber Security Strategy: Heart in the right place but... ComputerworldUK (blog) One cannot disagree with the government's intent and vision for dealing with cyber security in the UK, as revealed in the Cabinet Office's recently published cyber security strategy. With the annual cost of cyber crime in the UK estimated to be in the ... Speculation rife as Gillard gobbles cyber security SC Magazine Australia By Darren Pauli on Dec 12, 2011 4:00 PM Julia Gillard will take command of cyber security policy away from the Attorney-General's Department (AGD) under a sweeping cabinet reshuffle that also claimed the scalp of Federal Attorney-General, ... KCG Joins With Rapid7 to Deliver World-Class Cyber Penetration Testing and ... MarketWatch (press release) "Cybersecurity is often thought of as building walls or fences to keep others out, but a large part of the mission involves understanding what weaknesses exist in your defenses and how the enemy will exploit them to gain unauthorized entry," said ... With spending cuts likely, contractors look to repair work, cybersecurity Washington Post Cybersecurity It's been the buzz in 2011, and don't expect that to change in 2012. But every company that wants to win work will have to consider its strategy. In recent years, many contractors have opted to open cyber centers near Fort Meade, ... Stuxnet 2 makes Middle East organisations rethink their cyber security plans Business Intelligence Middle East (press release) With many still struggling to recover from the damage caused by Stuxnet, the recent discovery of Stuxnet 2 ensures that 2012 will not be an easy one for cyber securityexperts – or indeed other organisations. Popularly known as 'Duqu', ... Ministry of Foreign Trade boosts cyber-security ITP.net By Georgina Enzer Published December 12, 2011 The Ministry of Foreign Trade is implementing the latest aeCERT measures and practices to bolster cybersecurityafter signing a MoU with The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), represented by the ... TRA Represented by aeCERT Highlight Importance of Cybercrime With ... MarketWatch (press release) With security threats becoming more sophisticated every year, this year's courses focus on cyber security as well as forensic security. The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) represented by the UAE Computer Emergency Response Team (aeCERT) ... Top Utility Chooses SUBNET Technology to Address NERC CIP Compliance MarketWatch (press release) One of North America's leading smart grid utilities has selected SUBNET's Unified IED Access Control Security solution to further promote substation cyber-security. The utility is now the 9th utility to integrate SUBNET's NERC CIP technology of the 12 ... ManTech Ranked No. 6 on G.I. Jobs' Top Military Friendly Employers(R) List MarketWatch (press release) Veterans carry out critical responsibilities in logistics and supply-chain management, C4ISR, cyber security, systems engineering, intelligence analysis, software and IT support, space and satellite communications, and corporate administrative ... Germany - Minister of State Hoyer opens Cyber Security Conference ISRIA (registration) On 13 and 14 December, the Conference “Challenges in Cyber Security – Risks, Strategies and Confidence-Building” will take place at the Federal Foreign Office. The Conference will be opened by Minister of State Hoyer. This Cyber Security Conference is ... GovWin Recon: Dec. 12: Federal Budget Compromise Expected; Deltek govWin (blog) Deltek: Cybersecurity spending should grow [Capital Business] - Deniece Peterson, Deltek senior manager for federal industry analysis, says her company predicts nine-percent ($14 billion) growth in IT security spending between 2011 and 2016. ... CyberPoint and Integrita to Bring Security Products to US Market Sacramento Bee 12, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- CyberPoint International, LLC, a global cyber security company, and information security startup Integrita Computing Systems announced today an agreement to bring Integrita's innovative security products to the US market ... 12 Chinese Hacker Teams Responsible for Most US Cybertheft Fox News | AP WASHINGTON – As few as 12 different Chinese groups, largely backed or directed by the government there, do the bulk of the China-based cyberattacks stealing critical data from US companies and government agencies, according to UScybersecurity ... NIST details trusted root BIOS verification model FierceGovernmentIT 9 how a "roots of trust" cybersecurity model might operate at the level of computer BIOS. Roots of trust is a term NIST has taken to use when describing a cybersecurity paradigm based on unconditionally trusted system functions, such as boot system ... Bank password not so safe Deccan Chronicle Cyber security analysts say there are multiple risks involved in the OTP system. While a mobile service provider can reissue a SIM card, if not used for 3 months, a hacker can also avail of a duplicate sim card by producing fake identification ... Army Activates First of its Kind Cyber Bridage Military.com FORT MEADE, Md. -- Network warfare, cyber security and the illegal release and posting of classified information on the internet are all hot topics in recent news headlines -- topics which the government, and more importantly its military, ... Problem with waiting for catastrophes New Straits Times By Kamal Malhotra | 0 comments A recent article in Technology Review on cyber security dwelled on some very interesting human characteristics which I have found can be related to how a large group of society approaches the issues of climate change. ... BITS Takes Aim at Fraud BankInfoSecurity.com BITS, the technology policy division of The Financial Services Roundtable, has just named a new VP of cybersecurity and fraud prevention. What's John Carlson's mission, and what's it mean to banks? New financial risks face both private and public ... All eyes on new Health Minister The Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has, however, seen fit to remove cyber security policy from the new Attorney-General's portfolio, while responsibility for national security research and innovation will move from the PM's purview to Defence. ... Warning: Gloomy 2012 Forecast for Internet Security Business Insider Acting as individuals or groups, these entities know no boundaries, making cyber security a global problem. We can no longer assume our data is safe sitting behind perimeter-protected networks. Attacks penetrate our systems through ubiquitous protocols ... Workshop “Innovation and knowledge driven R&D: key developments” at the ... Cordis News ... to organize a workshop at the European Parliament, on 25 January 2012, to discuss global collaboration in innovation and knowledge driven R&D in three specific areas: cyber security, power and energy, and computational and cognitive neural science. ... NSF Grant Funds Search for Ways to Ensure Data Authenticity University of Texas at Dallas (press release) “We are very pleased to receive this large Trustworthy Computing Grant from NSF,” said Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, the Louis A. Beecherl Jr. Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and director of the UT Dallas Cyber Security Research Center. ... McClelland, Carr exit technology-related portfolios Delimiter ... today: Responsibility for cybersecurity will move from the Attorney-General's Department to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. I would analyse this as relating to the centralisation of control over the government's cyber-security defence. TWD Hires Contracting Vet Bradley Stegman to Lead All Programs; Mike Lee Comments GovConWire Stegman is also pursuing a master's certificate in cybersecurity policy at the University of Maryland. “Brad has a proven track record of executive and program management experience leading high performance teams in the delivery of $100 million plus IT ... Booz Allen could be on the hunt Washington Post ... to look for mergers and acquisitions that will help them strengthen or establish footholds in industries expected to grow, which generally include cybersecurity, health information technology and intelligence and surveillance, among others. ... Follow @sobeqorg