• NSA may offer "billions" for a solution allowing eavesdropping on Skype

    Skype continues to be a major problem for government listening agencies, whether intelligence agencies tracking terrorists or the police trying to listen in on criminals; rumor has it that NSA is willing to pay handsomely for a Skype-code-breaking solution

  • Fraudsters set cyber traps on Digg

    Spanish security company PandaLabs is reporting that cyber-crooks are setting traps on popular news-sharing Web site Digg

  • Obama orders U.S. cybersecurity review

    The threat of cyber attacks on official U.S. systems has been laid bare in recent years with a spate of hacking incidents, including several blamed on China; new administration wants to take stock

  • New cyberattack technique inflicts major damage with modest means

    Technique works by sending hundreds of thousands of DNS a steady stream of packets that contain little more than the character “.”; the queries prompt the DNS servers to respond to the targets with a list of the Internet’s root servers, responses that contain about eight times more data than the initial request

  • IT security jobs largely untouched by economic slowdown

    New reports describe a surprising stability in the information security job market amid all the cost-cutting and layoffs that are taking place; regulatory compliance demands, increasing data protection requirements stemming from wireless deployments and rollouts of virtualization technology, and growing consumer angst over data breaches combine to blunt the toll recession takes on information security jobs, salaries

  • Bolstering cyber defense

    Against the backdrop of tens of thousands of reported attacks and breaches of government and private computer systems each year, Cobham’s subsidiary awarded a $8.6 million contract to develop cybersecurity test and evaluation technology

  • Cybersecurity contractor's network hacked

    A large U.S. government contractor specializing in providing cybersecurity and privacy services, has warned its employees their personal information may have been stolen after hackers planted a virus on its computer network

  • The five considerations in advancing video surveillance in security

    Video surveillance has become an integral part of security; more CSOs are finding it is necessary to integrate video into overall IT security; Eric Eaton offers a good discussion of the five criteria that should be considered in an effective integration of video surveillance and IT security

  • Check Point releases impressive FY2008, Q4 2008 financial results

    IT security company Check Point release financial results for Q4 2008 and FY 2008; revenue increase 11 percent to $808.5 million; GAAP operating income was $356.5 million

  • Napolitano issues additional action directives

    DHS secretary Napolitano issues additional Action Directives on cyber security and northern border strategy

  • Heartland says it has fixed security problem

    Heartland Payment Systems, the sixth-largest payment processor in the United States, processes payments for 250,000 companies; thieves install malicious program on company’s computers which captured data as it flowed across the network

  • Experts watch for Conficker superworm to be activated

    Conficker has infected at least 9 million computers; security experts anxiously wait for it to be activated; infection dwarfs the zombie army created by the infamous Storm worm, which reached a mere 1 million at its peak in September 2007

  • U.S. Air Force to train hundreds yearly in cyber warfare skills

    As the U.S. Air Force becomes more dependent on information and networks, it needs more officers trained in cyber warfare — both to protect U.S. cuber systems, and do damage to the adversary’s systems

  • GAO: IRS still vulnerable to cyber breaches

    U.S. tax collector makes but slow progress on vulnerabilities: Government watchdog finds that agency has fixed just 49 of 115 computer security problems found by the GAO in the November audit

  • The largest data breach ever?

    In what may yet be the largest personal information breach ever, Heartland Payment Systems, which processes payroll and credit card payments for more than 250,000 businesses, announces that consumer credit card data may have been exposed