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Guardians of the Grid: Agencies Unite to Bulk Up Utility Cybersecurity
CRM Buyer
"This effort will be focused on performance-based strategies and concrete steps to measure the progress of cybersecurity protection in the electric sector," said White House Cyber Security Coordinator Howard Schmidt. It's one thing to have a computer ...

Cyber Security Takes Center Stage In Miami
CBS Local
MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) – Citing South Florida, in particular Miami-Dade, as hot bed for identity theft, the US Homeland Security Department is putting on a series of cyber security events this week to spread awareness of the problem.

CBS Local

Industrial Defender, IBM, and NitroSecurity Score Highest in New Pike Research ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Paradoxically, although the larger cyber security market is often considered quite mature, this niche -- smart grid cyber security -- is not mature at all. For the moment, in fact, size and scale actually appear to be somewhat of a disadvantage, ...

Online giants to lead reform on child cyber security
EUobserver.com
By Benjamin Fox BRUSSELS - A group of 25 of the world's leading information and communication technology (ICT) firms have joined forces in a bid to improve cyber security for children in the EU. The ICT Coalition for a Safer Internet for Children and ...

UMD and MAR Inc. To Begin New Cybersecurity Partnership
CisionWire (press release)
... industry and government to deliver advanced educational programs that will prepare thecybersecurity workforce of today and tomorrow. MAR specializes in four inter-related core competency areas: Cyber Security and Information Technology Services, ...

Mykonos Software Lands $4 Million for Cyber Security
Digital Media Wire
San Francisco – Mykonos Software, a San Francisco-based developer of tools designed to secure websites and applications from hackers, fraud and theft, said on Monday it has raised $4 million in its first round of funding. Previous backer Tom Golisano, ...

Digital Media Wire

BillGuard CTO to Address Global Leaders at World Economic Forum in Wake of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, NY and TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, Jan 23, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- BillGuard, the consumer finance protection company, today announced that its Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder, Raphael Ouzan, has been chosen to advise world leaders on ...

New Survey: One in Five Americans Affected by Online Stalking or Aggressive ...
Sacramento Bee
Stalking can be dangerous and should be taken seriously," said Michael Kaiser, executive director of the National Cyber Security Alliance. "We encourage anyone who believes they are being victimized online to report the crime and seek help, if needed, ...

Wyse Leads Discussions Around Business's Role in Society, Cloud Computing and ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
SAN JOSE, CA and DAVOS-KLOSTERS, SWITZERLAND -- (Marketwire) -- 01/24/12 -- Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, will be participating in the 42nd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, which will focus on The Great ...

China Suspected in Attacks on DoD Computer Cards
Military.com
Cyber security firms have discovered a computer virus that uses servicemembers' network security cards to hack into government networks. How does it work? servicemembers receive an email with an official-looking PDF file connected to the virus that ...

Education, Communication Are Weapons Needed to Improve Cybersecurity
PropertyCasualty360
CSC organized a cybersecurity advisory council and at its first meeting, one of the attendees asked a representative of the FBI what the chances were that their company had been breached by a cyber attack, according to Tow. Rather than be troubled by ...

Top Government Agencies Join Guidance Software to Discuss Data Visibility
MarketWatch (press release)
Guidance Software President and CEO Victor Limongelli will deliver a welcome address with co-keynote speaker Matthew McCormack, Chief, Office of Cyber Security, DIA. Key sessions include "I Can See Clearly: Achieving Data Visibility," "E-Discovery in ...

Ex-US spy chief says may take crisis for new cyber law
Chicago Tribune
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives and the Democratic-controlled Senate have separate efforts under way on legislation aimed at improving cybersecurity. The House intelligence committee in December approved a bill that would allow US ...

NopSec Announces Sponsorship of Leading Security Professionals' Convention ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"With President Obama calling cybersecurity 'one of the most serious economic and national security threats,' we always encourage companies to safeguard their infrastructure with the best resources," said Michelangelo Sidagni, Chief Technology Officer ...

Sourcefire releases Cloud-based security product
ARNnet
Cybersecurity solutions provider, Sourcefire, has released its latest security product, the FireAMP advanced malware protection. FireAMP uses a Cloud-based platform and big data analytics to provide malware protection that can either be used as ...

Israel Cyber Warfare Breaks Out Between Arab Neighbors, War Unfolds In CyberSpace
Z6Mag
Cyber security experts are keeping a close eye on how this cyberwar continues and if it spills over the border battle ground. Cyber Security jobs are sure to see more interest as situations like this boil over into cyber war meltdown.

Z6Mag

Counter Terror Expo US Forms Advisory Board to Expand Community Reach and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The advisory board includes individuals from government, academia, law enforcement, media, and the private sector with knowledge ranging from cyber security to border and critical infrastructure protection. Counter Terror Expo US is the ...

Homeland Security Touts Successes Against Terrorism
Opposing Views
To safeguard and secure cyberspace, DHS responded to over 100000 incident reports and released more than 5000 cybersecurity alerts and information products for federal, state, local, international and private sector partners; worked to combat ...

Opposing Views

Banning social media threat to democracy: Ankit Fadia
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: Banning or blocking websites and social content on web is a threat to democracy and the freedom of speech of the netizens, cyber-security expert and ehthical hacker Ankit Fadia said Tuesday. "Banning or blocking websites and social content ...

AFCEA West 2012: General Dynamics advances cyber capabilities
Shephard Media
Following the US Government's efforts to enhance cyber security capabilities, General Dynamics is furthering its efforts in this area to address the growing trends. Speaking to Shephard at a pre-AFCEA West briefing on 16 January, Mike Maschino, ...

Shephard Media

Anonymous Plans To Attack Facebook on January 28th, 2012 at 12am EST in Cyberwar
Z6Mag
This rise in hacktivism is definitely spurring enrollment for students interested in cyber securitydegree programs. In addition to students being interested so are companies that are trying to hire professional in cyber security technology and ...

Hackers manipulated railway computers, TSA memo says
Nextgov
20 meeting included representatives from information technology firm Indus Corp., the Association of American Railroads, and Boeing Co., as well as government officials from TSA, the Homeland Security Department's cybersecurity divisions, ...

Nextgov

Hackers Finding it Easier to Attack Teleconferencing Sessions
International Business Times
By Anthony Myers: Subscribe to Anthony's RSS feed A Boston-based hacker who gets hired by companies to find holes in their cybersecurity now says videoconferencing equipment is, in general, wide open to attack. HD Moore, the security chief at a firm ...

International Business Times

15 leaders in smart grid security
ZDNet (blog)
Cleantech market watcher Pike Research has released an analysis of which companies matter in cybersecurity technologies for the smart grid. A handful of the names from the information technology security world won't surprise you and they already have a ...

ZDNet (blog)

Just in Time for "Anonymous" Attacks, U.S. NIST Drafts a New Readiness Plan
ReadWriteWeb
By Scott M. Fulton, III / January 23, 2012 5:00 PM / View Comments Two years ago, the US Dept. of Homeland Security firmly decided (again) that a policy of responding to vulnerabilities in the nation'scybersecurity when they happen, is insufficient.

SSCC 81 - NCSA and Data Privacy Day
Naked Security
by Chester Wisniewski on January 24, 2012 | Leave a comment Micahel Kaiser, Executive Director of the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) joined me for the second time this week to help raise awareness about Data Privacy Day coming up on January ...

Is the EU-India strategic partnership really strategic?
EUobserver.com
Trade and security, including antipiracy, cyber security and counter terrorism were the main issues on the agenda. But has the partnership been rendered more strategic? Ashton's visit came as a much-needed sign of political engagement to a relationship ...

Dominion and Lockheed Martin Announce Grid Side Energy Efficiency Solution and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
IS&GS-Civil is responsible for a wide array of information technology systems and technical services in areas such as energy, health care, transportation, information and cyber security, citizen protection and space exploration.

Kinamik Data Integrity, Inc. and DFLabs Ink OEM Agreement
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The joint solution will allow organizations to efficiently manage cyber security incidents while providing unrivalled integrity guarantees to customers, auditors and any third party. "We are pleased to announce this agreement and partnership with ...

Is there a market failure in cybersecurity? It's not an open and shut ...
By Jerry Brito
Cybersecurity is one of the issues that the President may touch upon tonight in his State of the Union speech, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said he is ready to move on comprehensive cybersecurity legislation soon. This all.
Technology Liberation Front

DHS program in Miami stresses cyber security – Erie Times-News ...
By Blackmere
The U.S. Homeland Security Department is putting on a series of cyber security events this week in Miami, described as a national hotbed of identity theft. Top federal officials say more identity theft complaints come from Miami-Dade County ...
Blackmere Consulting

Lancope Appoints Former Cisco Cybersecurity Expert Tom Albert as ...
Lancope Appoints Former Cisco Cybersecurity Expert Tom Albert as Vice President of Business Development.
ITbriefing.net

It'll Probably Take a Crisis to Get Some Major New Cyber Security ...
By jacob
U.S. intelligence agencies have unique capabilities that can help protect American companies from cyber espionage and attack, but it will probably take a crisis to change laws to allow that type of cooperation, a former spy chief said on ...
SecureWorld Post

Industrial Defender, IBM, and NitroSecurity Score Highest in New ...
By Richard Martin
While the market for smart grid cyber security is still nascent, the competitive landscape includes established smart grid specialists, niche players, and well-known enterprise security vendors. Paradoxically, although the larger cyber security ...
Pike Research » Newsroom

Banning social media threat to democracy: Ankit Fadia
Banning or blocking websites and social content on web is a threat to democracy and the freedom of speech of the netizens, cyber-security expert and ehthical hacker Ankit Fadia said Tuesday. "Banning or blocking websites and social content ...
International Laws & Rights News

Cyber Security in Virginia to Become Marketing Tool
NRVNews: New River Valley News & Infocenter for Montgomery, Floyd, Giles, and Pulaski Counties.
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Cyber-Security Worsens - Security
CyberSecurity Worsens Security: ... Cyber-security took a turn for the worse in 2011 and will probably be worse yet in 2012 as the flaws that enabled the ...
www.smartertechnology.com/c/a/.../Cyber-Security-Worsens/

Cybersecurity talk draws business and political leaders to Stanford ...
Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation brought together lawmakers and Silicon Valley industry leaders to discuss what President Obama ...
fsi.stanford.edu/news/lawmakers_industry_cybersecurity/

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