Anonymous takes out Boeing website

Anonymous takes out Boeing website
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"CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011, and those who have crafted this bill have now become sworn enemies of Anonymous," the narrator says. "We will unleash the worst pain on those who threaten our existence.

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CISPA and SOPA like 'apples and oranges,' say chief co-sponsors
Digitaltrends.com
Chief co-sponsors of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) Reps. Mike Rogers (R-MI) and CA “Dutch” Ruppersberger (D-MD) defended their legislation in a conference call with reporters today, saying that any comparisons of CISPA to ...

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Why Microsoft and Facebook are Pro-CISPA but Anti-SOPA
Lifehacker
If passed, CISPA would amend the National Security Act of 1947 to allow government agencies to swap customer data from Internet service providers and websites if that data is a threat to "cyber-security." On a basic level the bill is meant to provide a ...

Global Cyber Arms Race Is Engulfing The Web, Warns Defense Official Samuel Cox
Huffington Post
By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A global cyber arms race is engulfing the Internet and the best way to counter the rapidly escalating threat is combining the efforts of US agencies, private firms and international allies, cyber security ...

Official says weak security hampers cyber efforts
Boston.com
The director of intelligence at the US Cyber Command, Rear Adm. Samuel Cox, said sharingcybersecurity information with a friendly country that operates computer systems susceptible to penetration creates opportunities for adversaries to steal the data ...

Anonymous Hackers Attack Trade Groups Over Cyber-Security Legislation
eWeek
The hacktivist collective launched DoS attacks on USTelecom and TechAmerica over their support of the CISPA cyber-security proposal. The Anonymous hacker collective, which in recent days has made headlines for attacking hundreds of Chinese government ...

Lawmaker Defends Cyber Bill as Groups Plan Internet Protest
BusinessWeek
By Eric Engleman and Chris Strohm on April 10, 2012 The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee defended his proposed legislation aimed at improving cybersecurity as civil liberties groups planned an Internet protest against the measure. The Cyber ...

CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Authors: 'This Isn't SOPA'
Mashable
The sponsors of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a new cybersecuritybill in the House, assured a group of technology journalists and bloggers during a Tuesday morning conference call that their legislation has nothing to do ...

Global cyber arms race engulfing Web - omg Tech News
San Francisco Luxury News
WASHINGTON: A global cyber arms race is engulfing the Internet and the best way to counter the rapidly escalating threat is combining the efforts of US agencies, private firms and international allies, cyber security officials said. Cyber experts from ...

Lawmakers model latest cyber bill after DoD information sharing pilot
FederalNewsRadio.com
By Jason Miller House lawmakers are modeling a new cybersecurity bill after the Defense Department's pilot program to share threat and vulnerability information with the private sector. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 is ...

Cyber threats to US allies hamstring future cooperation
The Hill (blog)
Cox, who is the head of intelligence at US Cyber Command, declined to comment on which countries posed the biggest liability to ongoing cyber-operations during the speech. He did note that the cybersecurity applications in place on networks operated by ...

House to take up cybersecurity bill with revisions
Reuters
But the bill, which has 105 co-sponsors, has come under attack from groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which said in a blog post last month that the bill failed to use narrow enough language to define a cyber threat.

Anonymous targets cyber-security legislation
TG Daily
USTelecom President Walter McCormick responded to the above-mentioned attack by stating that the DDoS (denial-of-service) offensive only illustrated the need for comprehensive cyber security legislation. "As an industry in the business of facilitating ...

Cyber attack at Commerce did not stop work
FederalNewsRadio.com
The Commerce Department said a major cyber attack may have brought down one of its agencies' networks, but it did not stop work. The January attack forced the Economic Development Administration to go offline. It had to build a new operating system ...

CISPA: Cybersecurity Bill Authors Defend Legislation Against 'Privacy Disaster ...
Huffington Post
Authors of a cybersecurity bill sought to rebut criticisms on Tuesday from civil liberties groups who say the legislation does not protect consumers from having their private data shared with the government. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and ...

White House presses for stricter cyber rules for critical infrastructure
FederalNewsRadio.com
While a mishmash of competing cyber bills currently are vying for attention on Capitol Hill, the most contentious divide is over whether or not to give the federal government new powers to setcybersecurity standards for the nation's most critical ...

Lieberman's Maginot Maintenance of Our Cyber Borders
American Spectator (blog)
Security requires clarity of design and of purpose. Mistakes come with complexity, and successful attacks are born in mistakes. The fact that the private sector leads the league in technological defense against cyber-attack might suggest why the ...

Hackers attack German justice ministry website
Atlanta Journal Constitution
AP BERLIN — Germany's Justice Ministry says its website has gone offline because of a cyber attack. The ministry tweeted Wednesday afternoon that the site was hit by a denial of serviceattack. Security officials say such attacks occur when a website ...

Cambridge firm calls for better cyber defence in UK
ElectronicsWeekly.com
Cambridge design house, Plextek believes that the UK needs a Cyber Attack Prevention Agency to effectively prevent against cyber attacks. Plextek is taking part in the Security and Defence SIG meeting which takes place in London on the 19th of April ...

Big4.com reports on Deloitte sponsoring National Collegiate Cyber Defense ...
Albany Times Union
“Our nation is under constant attack from various cyber criminals, from individuals stealing personal financial information to sophisticated terrorist networks seeking to hack into our electrical grid and be a detriment to our way of life,” he said.

Pentagon Wants Cyberweapons Faster
Patch.com
Patch's latest roundup of cyber news examines new efforts to get weapons more quickly and addresses concerns about recent cybersecurity legislation. By Tim Lemke The US CyberCommand is seeking to get cyberweapons faster in order to respond to threats.

New CISPA amendments expected — but the fight will go on
Digitaltrends.com
Under the next new provision, the DHS would “generally receive copies of all voluntarily sharedcyber threat information for the purpose of ensuring that the information was shared forcybersecurity purposes.” Also, the DHS would be responsible for ...

Lawmakers: Cybersecurity bill is not SOPA
The Hill (blog)
Critics who compare the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) to SOPA are “comparing apples and oranges,” said Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Preventing online piracy and securing the ...

NIKSUN World Wide Security & Mobility Conference (WWSMC) Comes to India
MarketWatch (press release)
Each WWSMC puts both thought leaders and attendees on a fast track to solving the currentsecurity and mobility issues that affect society today. “Clearly the problems facing us in cyberterrorism are of a global nature. No one is immune,” explains Dr.

Cyber Security Company Announces the Launch of Its Sentinel Server
PR Web (press release)
Sera-Brynn, LLC, a full-service Cyber security company located in Chesapeake, Virginia, is making local and national businesses secure from Cyber attacks. And now it is providing an option to do it cheaper and more efficiently.

Colbert Tweets Like 'Cyber Punk' Chuck Grassley
TPM
No Republican tweets better than 78-year-old “cyber punk” Senator Chuck Grassley, Stephen Colbert said Tuesday. Case in point, Grassley's tough tweet over the weekend: “Constituents askd why i am not outraged at PresO attack on supreme court ...

Anonymous starts anti-CISPA protests
Inquirer
By Dave Neal HACKTIVISTS from Anonymous have started to protest against the US CyberIntelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (CISPA). CISPA sounds a lot like the proposed UK surveillance bill that will let the Government access communications ...

Global Cyber Arms Race Is Engulfing The Web, Warns Defense ...
By Reuters
Global Cyber Arms Race Is Engulfing The Web, Warns Defense Official Samuel Cox. CyberArms Race Samuel Cox. cybersecurity, cyber security, cyber arms race, Samuel Cox,. First Posted: 04/10/2012 8:05 pm Updated: 04/11/2012 8:54 am ...
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Lords of Dharamraja: A New Vector for Disinformation and a Call for ...
By berlink1
Indian Military Intelligence utilized this backdoor to read the emails of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC), a bipartisan panel that reports to Congress on thesecurity and economic relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China.[2] The USCC has not denied that it was the victim of a cyber attack and it has asked the FBI, the lead agency on cybercrime inside the United States, to begin an investigation. The investigation ...
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Weak Security Hampers Cyber Efforts, Says Official
By Townsquare News Network
Rear Adm. Samuel Cox, who is director of intelligence at the U.S. Cyber Command, said Tuesday that sharing cybersecurity information with a friendly country that operates computer systems susceptible to penetration creates opportunities for ...
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The APT Deception « The Day Before Zero
By gunter@damballa.com
So, with that bit of non-fiction in mind, why do so many people automatically assume that cyber-attacks sourced from IP addresses within China are targeted, state-sponsored, attacks? ... Now, if I was say working within the cyber-warfare team of the French Foreign Legion or perhaps the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security) and interested in gathering secret intelligence about the investment Chinese companies are making in sub-Sahara mineral resources, I'd probably ...
The Day Before Zero

Incoming! Cyber IN-Security Sham Bill | AxXiom for Liberty
By AxXiom
.For civil libertarians, the most important part of all the cyber bills is buried in the language describing “enhanced information sharing” of cybersecurity threats between private companies and the government. To date, shortcomings in current ...
AxXiom for Liberty

War News Updates: An Analysis On Cyber War
By War News Updates Editor
Some observers declared this apparent sabotage to be the harbinger of a new form of warfare, and United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has warned Americans of the danger of a “cyber Pearl Harbor” attack on the US. But what do ...
War News Updates

Schmidt: Cyber Key to National Economy | FedScoop
By David Stegon
Special Assistant and Cyber Security Coordinator, Executive Office of the President Howard Schmidt addresses attendees at the McAfee Public Sector Summit, April 11, 2012. (Photo: David Stegon/FedScoop). It's no secret that the government ...
FedScoop

Seidenberg Team Fends Off Cyber Attackers at Regional ...
By Benjamin Stevens
In addition to the cybersecurity exercise, the students had the opportunity to network withcybersecurity practitioners from companies like EMC, RSA (the security division of EMC), the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), ...
Seidenberg School News

Anonymous Launches Attacks Against Trade Associations and ...
By Jose Ricardo
However, as a practice, we don't discuss specifics about our security program." In an emailed statement, Walter McCormick, president of USTelecom, called Anonymous out on their previous stance on speech. “By launching a cyber attack in an effort to coerce, intimidate and stifle speech, members of Anonymous are acting contrary to the very freedoms and Internet norms that they espouse,”he wrote. On the other hand, Shawn Osborne, TechAmerica's president, said that Anonymous' ...
Tech 4 Business

Cambridge Wireless debates UK cyberterrorism agency | Gregory D ...
Cambridge technology hothouse Plextek is urging the UK government to create a Cyber AttackPrevention Agency to effectively protect against cyber terrorism. Read more… View full ... View full post on National Cyber Security. Tags: Agency ...
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Cybersecurity Bill Authors Defend Legislation Against 'Privacy ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.), seeks to give businesses and the federal government legal protection to share cyber threats with each other in an effort to thwart hackers. Currently, they do not share that data because the information is ... " This is a whole new surveillance program," she told The Huffington Post. The bill's authors say the legislation bars the government from using the information for other purposes "unless a significant cybersecurity or national securitypurpose exists.
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Global Insights: The DHS Cybersecurity Logjam | Cyber Warzone
For example, DHS made cybersecurity one of its five most important mission areas in the first-ever Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR) released in ...
www.cyberwarzone.com/.../global-insights-dhs-cybersecurity-l...

Cyber attack infects 550000 of Apple's 'virus free' machines - UK ...
Cyber attack infects 550000 of Apple's 'virus free' machines - with UK and U.S. worst hit According to Daily Mail, which also has a huge US following,
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Cybersecurity Bill Authors Defend Legislation Against 'Privacy ...
Authors of a cybersecurity bill sought to rebut criticisms on Tuesday from civil liberties groups who say the legislation does not protect consumers from having ...
www.infowars.com/cybersecurity-bill-authors-defend-legislati...

Medical implants vulnerable to cyber attack
Medical implants used to manage conditions such as diabetes and heart disease are vulnerable to cyber attack, security researchers warn.
www.computerweekly.com/.../Medical-implants-vulnerable-to...

Latest Cybersecurity Bill Even More Of A Concern Than Last Attempt ...
(ABC News) Congress is set to act on cybersecurity legislation that has been making its way ...
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Oxford recognised as leader in cyber security - University of Oxford
'It raises concerns for the individual, for business, and for government (who have ranked a cyber attack as a UK 'Tier 1 Threat'). 'Good security also creates new ...
www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2012/120402.html

avast! blog » Privacy Losses: Cybersecurity Efforts Move Us ...
Privacy Losses: Cybersecurity Efforts Move Us Towards A Big-Brother Nation. April 3rd, 2012 Jonathan Penn Leave a comment Go to comments. My last post ...
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