Cyber threats
Yahoo! recently disclosed a massive data breach affecting approximately 500 million email accounts that occurred in late 2014.
“Major data breaches remind us that we must do our part and be vigilant in protecting our personal online information,” Michael Kaiser, executive director of the... Read More »
New York’s proposed cyber security regulations for banks and insurance companies - the first such policy in the nation - would create some uniformity between state and federal rules, but the American Bankers Association (ABA) said that it is seeking clarification on certain provisions.
“We... Read More »
A coalition of worldwide business groups recently met at a cybersecurity conference in Dubai to focus on facilitating a sustained dialogue between American companies and those in the Arabian Gulf.
During the meeting, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the Dubai Chamber of... Read More »
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on Tuesday that found that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) needs to identify the National Guard’s cyber capabilities and address challenges in its exercises.
The GAO report said that DoD doesn’t have the visibility of... Read More »
INTERPOL recently conducted a series of cybercrime training sessions in Latin America and the Caribbean seeking to enhance regional law enforcement capacity to respond to and prevent cyberthreats.
The training efforts served as an important part of INTERPOL’s Cybercrime Capacity Building... Read More »
A coalition of U.S. senators urged President Obama via letter on Monday to prioritize cybersecurity and strategies to counter cyber threats in the financial sector in discussions at the upcoming G-20 summit in September.
The coalition included U.S. Sens. Gary Peters (D-MI), Sherrod Brown... Read More »
The city of San Diego selected Tenable Network Security, Inc., on Tuesday to provide improved security visibility and reduced threat exposure across the city network.
“One of the challenges I faced when I came on board three years ago was that the IT department had very little visibility and... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded funding on Thursday to the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) to advance the React cybersecurity solution for utilities that monitors IT networks for near real-time detection of possible cyber intrusions.
React will aim to develop... Read More »
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson hosted a conference call on Monday with members of the National Association of Secretaries of State, along with other election officials, to discuss cybersecurity in election systems infrastructure.
Officials within the Department of Homeland... Read More »
A research team led by Purdue University professors Dongyan Xu and Xiangyu Zhang detailed the findings of their RetroScope technology during the USENIX Security Symposium over the weekend.
RetroScope, developed in the last nine months, builds upon the research team’s earlier work in smart... Read More »
In order to stem massive data breaches and strengthen cyber security, U.S. policymakers should reform laws to help make it easier for researchers to identify and address software bugs, according to a recent report from New America’s Open Technology Institute.
The report, “Bugs in the... Read More »
U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) called for action by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday to strengthen the nation’s cybersecurity efforts against foreign actors who attempt to exploit cyber vulnerabilities in the nation’s voting systems.
“The Department of Homeland... Read More »
U.S. Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) called for action on Monday by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regarding potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities in voting machines and other information technology used in election systems across the U.S.
“Election security is critical and a cyberattack... Read More »
A Pittsburgh-based team of cyber researchers achieved the top spot at the Defense Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC), the world’s first all-hacking tournament, on Thursday.
The CGC is the first fully-automated computer security challenge, with teams coming from... Read More »
According to a new survey by the SANS Institute set to be released on Aug. 11, exploits against endpoints are on the rise and the damage associated with such compromises are growing at a fast rate.
"The perfect storm is upon us,” Lee Neely, mentor and instructor at the SANS Institute, said.... Read More »
