Cybersecurity

  • Delay in start date for U.K. cyberdefense center

    The U.K. government's Cyber Security Operations Center, charged with protecting Britain's critical IT infrastructure, was supposed to become operational yesterday; the government said it would become operational by the end of the month

  • Toronto police to buy encrypted radios

    The Toronto police will spend CAN$35 million on encrypted radios; new system may shut out public eavesdroppers -- by tow-truck drivers, the media, scanning enthusiasts -- starting with the June 2010 G20 summit

  • GAO: U.S. government not properly coordinating cybersecurity efforts

    The U.S. Government Accountability Office, in addressing the Obama administration's Comprehensive National Cyber Security Initiative (CNCI), a secretive initiative inherited from the Bush administration, warned that "Federal agencies have overlapping and uncoordinated responsibilities for cybersecurity, and it is unclear where the full responsibility for coordination lies"

  • Counter Terror Expo 2010, April 14-15, National Hall, Olympia, United Kingdom

  • Top concern at RSA 2010: security of cloud computing

    Cloud computing offers efficiency and cost reduction, but it also offer new opportunities to hackers and cybercriminals; Melissa Hathaway, former senior director for cyberspace for the National Security Council, said the migration toward the cloud is gaining momentum without having satisfactorily addressed several pressing concerns; former National Security Agency technical director Brian Snow said he does not trust the cloud

  • CybersecurityFBI: Cyber-terrorism a real and growing threat to U.S.

    FBI director Robert Mueller: "The risks are right at our doorsteps and in some cases they are in the house"; Richard Clarke, former White House terrorism czar: "Every major company in the U.S. and Europe has been penetrated -- it's industrial warfare"

  • CybersecurityU.S. unveils cybersecurity strategy

    The Obama administration on Tuesday declassifies part of the secret cybersecurity plan aiming to bolster U.S. cyberdefenses; the plan has twelve directives that cover the government’s strategy to protect U.S. networks -- including military, civilian, government networks, and critical infrastructure systems -- as well as the government’s offensive strategy to combat cyberwarfare

  • Border Security Expo & Conference, Phoenix, Arizona – April 23 & 24, 2010

  • Private industry sees opportunities in cybersecurity

    Nadia Short, director of Strategic Planning and Business Development Information Assurance Division at General Dynamics: "The release of the [DHS] budgets earlier this month indicate a growth in cyberspending across all the services…. With that, as well as continuing the natural evolution of what cyber will mean for dot-gov and dot-mil, it will mean nothing but opportunity for private industry"

  • Smart grid attack likely

    The smart grid’s distributed approach exposes these networks and systems, especially in the early phases of deployment; the communication among these networks and systems will be predominantly wireless and it is assumed they will be sniffed, penetrated, hacked, and service will be denied

  • Former DNI: If U.S. went to war today in a cyberwar, it would lose

    Former director of national intelligence Michael McConnell compared the danger of cyberwar to the nuclear threat posed by the Soviet Union during the cold war; "If we went to war today in a cyberwar, we would lose," McConnell said

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  • U.K. government: even modest cyber attacks will have "catastrophic" impact on public confidence

    U.K. cybersecurity agency says that cyberattack do not have to be massively severe to undermine the public confidence in the government; agency says that government eavesdroppers also face a secret "cyber arms race" to develop quantum cryptography technology

  • New security threat against smart phone users

    Researchers demonstrate how a software attack could cause a smart phone to eavesdrop on a meeting, track its owner's travels, or rapidly drain its battery to render the phone useless; these actions could happen without the owner being aware of what happened or what caused them

  • Deadline for Massachusetts' “Written Information Security Program” looms

    As of 1 March 2010, Massachusetts will require that all Massachusetts companies -- and even companies operating outside the Commonwealth, but which do business in Massachusetts -- to implement stringent personal data privacy law, the data protections pertain to not just electronically stored and transmitted information but also hard copy formats

  • How real is the threat of cyberattack on the United States?

    Some experts compare the economic impact of a major cyberincident to the 2003 Northeast blackout, which cut service to fifty million people in the United States and Canada for up to four days; economists place the cost of that event between $4.5 [billion] and $10 billion -- which they regard as a blip in the $14.2 trillion U.S. economy

  • House sponsors of the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act hopes for quick Senate approval

    The The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act by an overwhelming majority; Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) says: "When you're talking about science and technology and national security….those are elements we should all be able to work together (on); Democrat, Republican, and that's what we saw on the House floor"

  • Hackers to compete for $100,000 for smartphone, browser hacks

    Hackers will compete for a $100,000 in prizes for exploits that successfully penetrate Apple's iPhone 3GS, Research in Motion's Blackberry Bold 9700, a Nokia device running the most recent version of Symbian, and a Motorola phone running Google's Android

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