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Cybercrime Is funding organized crime
Cybercrime is so profitable that organized crime is using it to fund its other exploits; U.S. law enforcement receives more cooperation from abroad in fighting back
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GAO's cybercrime report addresses cyber threats, responses
The FBI estimates that the annual loss due to computer crime was estimated to be $67.2 billion for U.S. organizations; nation-states and terrorists could conduct a coordinated cyber attack to seriously disrupt electric power distribution, air traffic control, and financial sectors; GAO studies the issue
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Endpoint data protection specialist raises $13.5 million
As more employees carry portable devices, and as transmission and storage devices of all types proliferate throughout the organization, endpoint data protection becomes more urgent; investors bet on specialist in the field
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Westlin, Zogmo offer dual data center IT continuity deal
Interest is growing in disaster communication continuity solutions, and two Texas companies join hands to offer a dual data center solution
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Data breaches do not often lead to ID theft
GAO report says that large data breaches do not appear to lead to identity theft; proposals requiring companies to notify customers of beaches may be costly an unnecessary
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One-time passcode generator for mobile devices unveiled
The safest password in the world is one which is used only once, then discarded; California company launches a one-time pass code genrator
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Airwave emergency communication radios "seriously flawed"
In 2002 London launched a £3 billion emergency communication service; 7/7 highlighted shortcomings in the system, and a new study finds that two years later the system is still flawed
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Radio over IP promises effective solution for emergency communications
Communication — survivable, interoperable communication — during emergency is a big problem, and Radio over IP offers a solution to both
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Personal information of 2.3 million people illegally removed from database
In the third largest data breach this year, an employee steals records of 2.3 million people from company’s data base and sells them to marketers
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Experts claim contactless payments pose data security risk
RFID security expert Kevin Fu says level of data security to safeguard information during contactless payment cards transaction is insufficient
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Schools short on cybersecurity training
The School Safety Index show that 95% of districts are blocking Web sites, but only 38% have a closed network that lets them control the content students can access
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PatchLink merges with SecureWave
Merger of two Common Criteria certified companies will create comprehensive security platform for unified protection and control of all enterprise servers and endpoints
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Ten companies win government DAR contracts
More and more government employees carry more and more laptops; there is a need to secure the data — DAR, for data at rest —on the hard drives of these laptops in case they are lost or stole
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Identity theft victims to be compensated
ChoicePoint compiles and sells personal information, and in 2005 it sold information about many consumers to identity thieves; the FTC-ChoicePoint settlement may be a model for similar cases in the futrue
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New details about AT&T's cooperation with the NSA in domestic spying
Scope of AT&T-NSA collusion in domestic spying on AT&T customers’ Internet traffic revealed in court documents
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The long view
States Rush to Combat AI Threat to Elections
This year’s presidential election will be the first since generative AI became widely available. That’s raising fears that millions of voters could be deceived by a barrage of political deepfakes. Congress has done little to address the issue, but states are moving aggressively to respond — though questions remain about how effective any new measures to combat AI-created disinformation will be.
Ransomware Attacks: Death Threats, Endangered Patients and Millions of Dollars in Damages
A ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, a company that processes 15 billion health care transactions annually and deals with 1 in 3 patient records in the United States, is continuing to cause massive disruptions nearly three weeks later. The incident, which started on February 21, has been called the “most significant cyberattack on the U.S. health care system” by the American Hospital Association. It is just the latest example of an increasing trend.
Chinese Government Hackers Targeted Critics of China, U.S. Businesses and Politicians
An indictment was unsealed Monday charging seven nationals of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with conspiracy to commit computer intrusions and conspiracy to commit wire fraud for their involvement in a PRC-based hacking group that spent approximately 14 years targeting U.S. and foreign critics, businesses, and political officials in furtherance of the PRC’s economic espionage and foreign intelligence objectives.
Autonomous Vehicle Technology Vulnerable to Road Object Spoofing and Vanishing Attacks
Researchers have demonstrated the potentially hazardous vulnerabilities associated with the technology called LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, many autonomous vehicles use to navigate streets, roads and highways. The researchers have shown how to use lasers to fool LiDAR into “seeing” objects that are not present and missing those that are – deficiencies that can cause unwarranted and unsafe braking or collisions.
Tantalizing Method to Study Cyberdeterrence
Tantalus is unlike most war games because it is experimental instead of experiential — the immersive game differs by overlapping scientific rigor and quantitative assessment methods with the experimental sciences, and experimental war gaming provides insightful data for real-world cyberattacks.