The government's investment in cyber security is embarrassing, according to security experts. The government announced plans to invest £650m over a four-year period on cyber security, after the 2010 National Security Strategy rated ...
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The government's spy agency, GCHQ, has launched an Academic Research Institute to investigate new ways of automatically analysing software to reduce its vulnerability to cyber threats. It is the second institute focused on cyber security ...
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Simon Whitburn, Vice President of International Sales, AccessData According to AccessData Group, the Middle East is fast becoming a prime target for cyber criminals, mostly because so many regional organisations are underequipped to ...
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According to a pair of recently released reports, demand for information security experts in the United States is outstripping the available supply by a widening margin. A report from Burning Glass Technologies, which develops ...
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The U.S. is dangerously unprepared to face a full-scale cyberconflict launched by a peer adversary, a report by the military's Defense Science Board (DSB) warns. The report, released in January, and first reported on by The Washington ...
Companies with IT security strategies that focus mostly on complying with key standards are dangerously unprepared for emerging cyber threats, said security experts at the RSA Conference 2013 here this week. Over the past few years, the ...
Companies with IT security strategies that focus mostly on complying with key standards are dangerously unprepared for emerging cyber threats, said security experts. Over the past few years, the security strategies of many companies and ...
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According to a new report from Gartner, hackers are adapting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and combining these with social engineering tactics to try and infiltrate banks. The report, called Arming Financial and E-Commerce ...
The UK and India are expected to strike a deal to become trusted partners in the growing battle against cyber criminals and nation states, prime minister David Cameron has said. Reuters reports that the UK hopes that by setting up a joint ...
The President, in his annual State of the Union speech to a joint session of the US Congress, said the United States is facing a “rapidly growing threat from cyber-attacks.” “We know hackers steal people's identities and ...
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A report released National Audit Office revealed that the UK IT skills shortage means that Britain could have trouble defending itself from cyber attacks over the next 20 years. The UK was hit by over 40 million cyber attacks in 2011 ...
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Two U.S. lawmakers plan to reintroduce a controversial cybersecurity bill that allows private companies to share customers' personal information related to a wide range of cyberthreats with government agencies. Representatives Mike ...
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President Barack Obama's cybersecurity executive order, signed on Tuesday, could significantly expand the list of companies categorized as part of U.S. critical infrastructure sector, security experts said Wednesday. The executive order ...
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President Obama could use tonight's State of the Union address to continue a push for new cybersecurity legislation, even as he's widely expected to issue an executive order Wednesday to impose rules aimed at protecting critical ...
President Barack Obama's cybersecurity executive order, announced during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, elicited guarded praise from several quarters even as it revived calls for more comprehensive bipartisan legislation to ...