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  • Reverse-hacker wins $4.3 million in suit against Sandia

    Shawn Carpenter dismissed after discovering a Chinese gang accessing the lab’s computer; decision to share data with the FBI and Army upset superiors; verdict seen as a victory for whistleblowers

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  • Privacy Rights Clearinghouse names top data breaches of 2006

    Veterans Affairs Department and Circuit City/Chase Card Services top the list; PRC hits the 100 million illegally accessed records mark; two dozen breaches in 2006 of more than 100,000

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  • NSA and StratCom build up hacking capabilities

    Marine General John Davishe intends to operationalize net-centric warfare; in addition to developing policy and tactics, StratCom intends to make hacking a valid career path for the Army’s best and brightest

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  • Vista fails to make the antivirus grade

    Virus Bulletin puts Microsoft’s LiveOneCare to the test; it fails, along with antivirus software from McAfee and GDATA; criticism mounts about Vista’s ability to handle the WildList

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  • Immunity offers a portable hacking device for penetration testing

    Nokia 770 tablet device is intended for companies to conduct their own white hat operations; tester turns on the $3,600 device, sticks it in his pocket, and waits to see whether his local wireless network is exploitable

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  • Defense Information Systems Agency budgets $959 million for IT security

    As DoD prepares to sign a cybersecurity pact with NATO, DISA tries to get its own house in order; $819 million for operations and maintenance and $140 million for procurements; plans to improve defense of SIPRNET, develop a risk management system

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  • DoD and NATA to sign cybersecurity pact

    National Cyber Response Coordination Group sees a great benefit to dealing with a single NATO cybersecurity agency, rather than working bilateralluy with twenty-six nations; Eastern European hackers a major concern

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  • Hawaii a case study in cross-juristictional emergency cooperation

    Earthquake last year offers a model of Hawaii’s can-do attitude; emergency response personell trained to respond to leadership, not rank; power failures doomed radio communications, so planners consider buying backup generators for the island’s radio stations

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  • Galileo Avionica offers electrical UAV for urban missions

    UAVs are growing in popularity, and an Italian company offers a vehicle which is especially designed for urban warfare and special operations: It is an electrically powered UAV which is so small it can be carried in a backpakck

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  • Javelin finds ID theft on the decline

    Survey finds a 12 percent drop in the overall cost of ID theft nationwide; 500,000 fewer victims; teenagers a growing target due to social networking and music sites

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  • Private sector responsible for infrastructure protection planning

    The U.S. government has a role to play in contingency planning for protecting critical infrastructure; security experts and government officials agree, though, that businesses should be self-sufficient when it comes to coping with emergencies; “The government is not going to save you,” said a former DHS official

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  • Network security: A practical approach by Ilan Meller

    Location-based and time-based measures breach physical and logical security of organizational networks

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  • Procera new data intrcepting solution meets CALEA new requirement

    What with the firestorm over the NSA domestic eavesdroping campaign, broadband providers have a 14 May deadline to allow law enforcement agencies to intercept and capture suspicious data transmission without compromising the privacy of innocent cstomers; a California company comes up with a solution

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  • Hackers use brokers to sell software vulnerabilities

    Although programs such as ZDI and VCP are popular, hackers can earn ten times the bounty by going through SNOSoft; significant flaw research can earn as much as $120,000; smart disclosure falls by the wayside

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  • Insecuring the US Senate

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More headlines

  • Primary Mitigations to Reduce Cyber Threats to Operational Technology
  • Another cybersecurity False Claims Act settlement
  • Cyber congressman demands answers before CISA gets cut down to size
  • US to sign Pall Mall pact aimed at countering spyware abuses
  • Researchers warn about ‘Goffee’ spilling onto Russian flash drives
  • Hackers using AI-produced audio to impersonate tax preparers, IRS
  • Time to Invest in Cybersecurity for U.S. Sealift Forces, Report Says
  • President Trump Extends National Emergency With Respect to Significant Cyber Threats for Another Year
  • Senators Press DHS for Details on GPS Jamming Protections
  • Recently-patched Firefox bug exploited against Tor browser users
  • Nuclear reactor restarts, but Japan’s energy policy in flux
  • Hawking says he lost $100 bet over Higgs discovery
  • Kansas getting $500K in law enforcement grants
  • Bill widens Sacramento police, sheriff’s contract security opportunities
  • DHS awards $97 million in port security grants
  • DHS awarding $1.3 billion in 2012 preparedness grants
  • Cellphone firms share location data with law enforcement, not users
  • Residents of Murrieta, California, will have to subscribe for emergency services
  • Ohio’s Homeland Security funding drops sharply
  • Ports of L.A., Long Beach get Homeland Security grants
  • Homeland security gets involved with Indiana water conservation
  • LAPD embraces “predictive policing”
  • New GPS rival is hack-proof
  • German internal security service head quits over botched investigation
  • Americans favor Obama to defend against space aliens: poll
  • U.S. Coast Guard creates “protest-free zone” in Alaska oil drilling zone
  • Congress passes measure to enhance Israel security ties
  • Wickr enables encrypted, self-destructing iPhone messages
  • NASA explains Why clocks got an extra second on 30 June
  • Cybercrime disclosures rare despite new SEC rule
  • First nuclear reactor to go back online since Japan disaster met with protests
  • Israeli security fence architect: Why the barrier had to be built
  • DHS allocates nearly $10 million to Jewish nonprofits
  • Turkey deploys troops, tanks to Syrian border
  • Israel fears terror attacks on Syrian border
  • Ontario’s emergency response protocols under review after Elliot Lake disaster
  • Colorado wildfires to raise insurance rates in future years
  • Colorado fires threaten IT businesses
  • Improve your disaster recovery preparedness for hurricane season
  • London 2012 business continuity plans must include protecting information from new risks

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The long view

  • Encryption Breakthrough Lays Groundwork for Privacy-Preserving AI Models

    In an era where data privacy concerns loom large, a new approach in artificial intelligence (AI) could reshape how sensitive information is processed. New AI framework enables secure neural network computation without sacrificing accuracy.

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  • Need for National Information Clearinghouse for Cybercrime Data, Categorization of Cybercrimes: Report

    There is an acute need for the U.S. to address its lack of overall governance and coordination of cybercrime statistics. A new report recommends that relevant federal agencies create or designate a national information clearinghouse to draw information from multiple sources of cybercrime data and establish connections to assist in criminal investigations.

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