At a time when cyberattacks on America's critical infrastructure have increased 17-fold(between 2009 and 2011),the need for highly trained cybersecurity professionals is acute.However,83%of federal hiring managers in a recent survey said it ...
Web users and people shopping online during the upcoming holiday season should watch out for a new crop of scams, some of them targeting users of mobile devices, cybersecurity vendor McAfee warned. Many of the scams in McAfee's 2012 ...
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Tuesday's election leaves President Barack Obama in the White House and maintains the balance of power in Congress.In many longstanding technology debates,policy experts see little movement forward,although lawmakers may look for ...
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U.S.President Barack Obama won re-election Tuesday night,topping 270 electoral votes to defeat Republican challenger Mitt Romney just after 11 p.m.yesterday. Romney held a small lead in the battleground state of Virginia,but most election ...
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The Department of Homeland Security(DHS),struggling to find enough cybersecurity talent to meet its needs,says it is going to groom the next generation of cybersecurity pros starting in kindergarten. But several security experts say while ...
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McAfee Data Protection has pledged to invest heavily in social engineering and so-called 'wetware' (meaning human-focused) technologies in order to protect users from a continual increase in social network-based spoofing and false link ...
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The US is at risk of a "cyber-Pearl Harbour" attack from overseas hackers and needs to take precautions against such threats. Government systems, financial networks, transport and the national power grid are all potential targets for ...
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Despite an increasing number of successful cyberattacks launched by East Asian hackers against companies and government institutions around the world in recent years,Eastern European cybercriminals remain a more sophisticated threat to the ...
Computerworld - Microsoft on Wednesday released a stopgap defense that protects Internet Explorer (IE) against attacks until the company issues a patch on Friday. The update will fix five flaws, including one revealed by a security ...
With opposition growing to reported plans by President Obama to issue an Executive Order to bolster cybersecurity within the nation's critical infrastructure,the main question now is whether the White House will plow ahead with the idea or ...
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European institutions on Wednesday beefed up cybersecurity efforts by establishing a permanent Computer Emergency Response Team(CERT-EU). The decision was made following a one-year test for the team,which works closely with the internal ...
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Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new threat targeting infrastructure in the energy sector that is believed to have hit at least one organisation. The malware, dubbed Shamoon, corrupts files on a compromised computer and ...
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A senior Republican senator on Thursday insisted there is no partisan dissent over the need for a strong national cybersecurity policy but added that a bill with Democratic backing that is stalled in the Senate is not the answer. In a ...
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Network World - Fidelis Security Systems has an interesting perspective on the world of security, working, as it does, with the U.S. government to keep other countries from prying into some of our nation's most critical networks. Now that ...
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Computerworld-Gen.Keith B.Alexander,the director of the National Security Agency,asked hackers for help securing cyberspace when he spoke at the Defcon conference late last month. "This is the world's best cybersecurity community,"said ...
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