Dem, GOP platforms expose divide over cyber defense

Dem, GOP platforms expose divide over cyber defense
GCN.com
The National Security Agency is often mentioned as the most likely home. Private-sector participation and cooperation should be voluntary, Republicans say. “The most effective way of combating potential cybersecurity threats is sharing cyber threat ...

GCHQ warns private sector bosses of unprecedented cyber-attack threat
The Guardian
GCHQ, the government's electronic eavesdropping and security agency, is to warn the chief executives of Britain's biggest companies about an unprecedented threat from cyber-attacks. Ministers and the intelligence agencies are for the first time ...

The Guardian

Huawei calls for cyber security cooperation
NDTV
Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies Ltd. has issued a report on cyber security that includes a pledge never to cooperate with spying in a fresh effort to allay concerns in the United States and elsewhere that threaten to hamper its ...

Stuxnet attack exposes chinks in India's critical infrastructure
India Today
Worse, cyber attacks that destroy critical infrastructure are getting easier to carry out. In March, Digital Bond, an American computer security firm, showed how a Stuxnet-like attack can be carried out using hacking tools downloaded from the Internet ...

India Today

Over 60% Of Small Businesses Fear Threat Of Cyber Attack
Fresh Business Thinking
Such concerns with regards to cyber-security occur at a time when 24% of UK SMEs currently conduct all or most of their day to day business on the internet, with over one in ten (13%) looking to expand overseas via web trading and internet sales in the ...

Video: In an Online World, Cyber Warfare Can be Lethal
Arutz Sheva
The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) held on Tuesday its annual international conference on cyberspace. Arutz Sheva was there. Among other topics ... Rami Efrati of the Israel National Cyber Bureau at the Prime Minister's Office told ...

Cyber Fail
Foreign Policy (blog)
At the Aspen Security Forum this summer, the head of Cyber Command, Gen. ... In the years after the clipper-chip debacle, commission after commission rose up to study how to improvecybersecurity without unduly violating privacy. Yet, even as the ...

Cyber-Bullying Towards Star Wars Fans — Not Cool
Wired
So, why, after we have helped them in the past, do they choose to attack us now? The second thing is that this news station has run articles and news reports about anti-cyber-bullying. One write up was even entitled, “3 Things Parents Can Do to Protect ...

Wired

Second cyber attack hits Saudi oil giant Aramco
Press TV
A 'hacktivist' group named the Cutting Sword of Justice has claimed responsibility for the cyber attack on August 15 in an online forum, saying the company was the main source of income for the Saudi government. The group accused the Saudi regime of ...

Press TV

DDoS Protection Yes, There is Such a Thing as Too Much Web Traffic
Broadcast Newsroom
Just like when Mother Nature shakes her fist at a coastal city and a hurricane surge breaches a protection levee, a Denial of Service or Distributed Denial of Service attack (DoS, DDoS) can bring a normally thriving and vibrant business to its knees ...

Article Debunking Organic Food Hit Piece Targeted by Massive Cyber
By admin
Article Debunking Organic Food Hit Piece Targeted by Massive Cyber Attack ... Ultimately, we managed to stop the attack after several hours of upgrading server security and blocking the attacker(s). While the attack was certainly on a larger ...
Prison Planet.com

Has the next Cold War already begun in cyberspace? | TechRepublic
By Alfonso Barreiro
Takeaway: Alfonso Barreiro likens the current state of cyber warfare measures and counter-measures to a Cold War. Could it escalate? Is it all hype? Take our poll. Cyberwar. It's very definition is cause for controversy among security ...
on TechRepublic

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