Two U.S. lawmakers have reintroduced a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill over the objections of some privacy advocates and digital rights groups. As promised, Representatives Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, and C.A. ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy said Monday that personal information about several hundred employees and contractors was stolen in a mid-January hack, but that no classified information was compromised. The agency is working with federal ...
US President Barack Obama has finally signed a much-anticipated executive order to protect key elements of the country's critical infrastructure against cyberattacks. Covering power plants, water utilities and other high-profile targets, ...
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Security firm FireEye has claimed that a series of targeted malware attacks detected a year ago are almost certainly part of a Chinese campaign to steal industrial secrets from US companies working in the field of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial ...
The passwords of about 250,000 Twitter users were stolen in a "sophisticated" cyber attack similar to those that recently hit major Western news outlets. "This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated ...
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President Barack Obama is expected to issue a cybersecurity executive order in the days after his Feb. 12 State of the Union address. The long-expected executive order will create a voluntary program that will call for companies in ...
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The Wall Street Journal said Thursday it had been targeted by hackers trying to monitor the newspaper's coverage of China, less than a day after a similar revelation from its competitor The New York Times. The Journal, which is owned by ...
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Computerworld - John Brennan, who was nominated by President Barack Obama today to be the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has been a vocal advocate for federal cybersecurity legislation in recent months. As the ...
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For all the apocalyptic prognostications, 2012 turned out to be a relatively uneventful year from an information security standpoint. A cyber Pearl Harbor did not happen. Stuxnet and its kin did not take out any power grids or shut down ...
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Computerworld-The 2012 Republican Party platform adopted this week calls for a more aggressive U.S.cyber deterrence policy for dealing with security threats against government and civilian targets. The platform,which lists the GOP's ...
Groups of companies in the same industry could pool infrastructure resources to help each other mitigate the effects of cyberattacks and work together on security issues, a senior official in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ...
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IDG News Service-An Arizona man has admitted his involvement in a May 2011 computer attack against the website of Sony Pictures Entertainment that was carried out by the now-defunct LulzSec hacker group. On Thursday,Raynaldo Rivera,20,of ...
IDG News Service - Wells Fargo's website experience intermittent outages on Tuesday, while the hacker group claiming responsibility threatened to hit U.S. Bancorp and PNC Financial Services Group over the next two days. Wells Fargo ...
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Organizers played "Eye of the Tiger" and "We are the Champions" over the loudspeakers as participants in the SANS Institute's NetWars Tournament of Champions sat down at their laptops and prepared for action. About 200 cybersecurity ...
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Web and mobile device users have little understanding about how much of their personal data is collected online, making it difficult to rely on free-market competition for solutions to privacy concerns, privacy experts told the U.S. Federal ...
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