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Hackers who attack US in line for lucrative payoffs
Tribune-Review
Both countries have integrated cyber-warfare capabilities into their military strategies, said Frank Cilluffo, director of the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University. China especially has engaged in cyberspying for at least ...

Training cyber defenders
Buffalo News
General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and commander of U.S. CyberCommand, was asked at a July security forum in Colorado how well-prepared, on a scale of 1 to 10, the United States is for a major cyber attack on an ...

Cyber attack: Four mn US social security numbers exposed
CIOL
CHARLESTON, As many as 3.6 million Social Security numbers and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers used by state taxpayers could have been exposed to a hacker in recent cyber attacks on the state Department of Revenue's computers, officials said ...

Japan vulnerable to cyber-attack
Newstrack India
"When I ask the instructor to attack my website, he immediately spotted the vulnerability," Yoshihiro Ura, a 19-year-old student at Osaka Prefecture University College of Technology, said. He was one of 40 participants at the cyber security camp in ...

Help added to SC cyber attack hotline
WACH
SLED knew about the attack on October 10th but waited sixteen days to tell the public about thesecurity breach while they worked to stop the attacker. “What I am every conscious of is when any law enforcement division tells you this will hurt our ...

Nation “increasingly vulnerable” to cyber-attack
The Copenhagen Post
A proposal currently being considered by parliament calls for the creation of a 'Centre forCyber-Security' under the control of the Defence Ministry, and would have a budget of 35 million kroner above and beyond what the ministry has already requested.

Cyber Security – First Line of Defense
DoD Live
In today's technology driven world, the battle lines are drawn with ones and zeros. There are cyberthieves waiting for you to compromise your cyber defense to exploit your bank account, identity and even your knowledge of military and U.S. defense ...

Official Calls for Iran's Smart Confrontation with Enemy's Cyber Threats
Fars News Agency
Noting that the threats in the cyber space are changing qualitatively and quantitatively, he said that the enemy is enhancing its technologies using smart systems to have their control wherever these technologies are used. Then, technologies have ...

Fars News Agency

Will the apocalypse arrive online?
Aljazeera.com
Instead, let's take the recent cyber claims at face value and assume that Richard Clarke, who prior to 9/11 warned continuously of an impending attack by al-Qaeda, is correct again. And while we're ... Cyber is "a new terrain for warfare", Panetta ...

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Cyber Security Initiatives Of India
Cjnews India (blog)
For instance, Perry4Law techno Legal Base (PTLB) has launched many far reaching and significant techno legal cyber security initiatives in India. The cyber securityresearch and development centre of India (CSRDCI) is the exclusive techno legal cyber...

Cjnews India (blog)

SC Governor Haley wants hacker 'brutalized' after cyber attack | The ...
By Arturo Garcia
But her response to the matter has been criticized by state Democrats. “You don't leave victims exposed to further criminalization so you can catch the perpetrator,” state Rep. Leon Stavrinakis told the newspaper. WIS' report on the cyber-attack ...
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Cyber Security Fails As 3.6 Million Social Security Numbers - Infowars
This incident will also place cyber security on the table for the presidential candidates as well. Even more than climate change, cyber security is a big complex ...
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Cyber-Security Chief on Wave of Web Attacks - US Business News ...
The man often credited as being the father of Internet defense says it's still unclear where a recent wave of hacking attacks targeting the U.S. financial industry ...
www.cnbc.com/.../Cyber_Security_Chief_on_Wave_of_Web_...

Cyber Security Fails As 3.6 Million Social Security Numbers Breached In South ...
Forbes
Cyber security will someday be seen as right up there with Social Security, health insurance and national defense as key measures of our well-being. This attack makes it clear that not only are individuals incapable of adequately protecting themselves ...

US, Canada launch joint cyber-security plan
NDTV
The action plan, under the auspices of the US Department of Homeland Security and Public Safety Canada, aims to better protect critical digital infrastructure and improve the response to cyber incidents. "Canada and the US have a mutual interest in ...

NDTV

Concentrate on cyber attacks, not terrorism, Osborne tells spy chiefs
Telegraph.co.uk
The Chancellor is understood to have asked them to consider how current spending decisions might look in the coming decades, suggesting future generations might question why today's leaders did not devote more resources to cyber security.

Telegraph.co.uk

Insurer launches cyber insurance for small businesses
ZDNet
That hasn't stopped Famers Insurance Group from developing a new line of Cyber Liability and DataSecurity coverage that is specifically targeted at "main street businesses." As best I can tell from the information I've received and read about, this ...

Taxpayer data exposed in cyber attack on South Carolina agency
Chicago Tribune
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - As many as 3.6 million Social Security numbers and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers used by state taxpayers could have been exposed to ahacker in recent cyber attacks on the state Department of ...

Cyber attack hacks Social Security numbers: What do I do next?
Spartanburg Herald Journal
You can help prevent your information from being misused by taking some of the following simple steps. In addition to these steps, the S.C. Department of Revenue will be protecting the taxpayers of South Carolina, by providing one year of credit ...

SC data breach just latest in hacker onslaught
USA TODAY
"There is a lot of spoofing and head fakes going on to make it seem like an attack is originating from a different region," says Kurt Baumgartner, senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab. Generally speaking, the more sophisticated cyber attacks ...

The Global Cyber Warfare Room Operating from Herzliya
IsraelDefense
The Global Cyber Warfare Room Operating from Herzliya. RSA, the information security division of EMC, is expanding the activities of its global cyber war room, based in one of the office buildings in Herzliya Pituach. This is the first center of its ...

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