Hayden: Cyberspace is ‘Lawless’
Cyberspace has become a lawless environment without any natural technical barriers to protect information, requiring every user to assume a personal responsibility for firewalls, said Gen. Michael V. Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency...
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Norton Gives Glimpse into Cyber Criminals’ World, Methods
The work of cyber criminals is 0ftentimes clandestine, but now Norton will give consumers a chance to get a glimpse into how Internet crooks conduct their shadowy business. The Black Market Experience is an exhibit set inside a fully converted semi...
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Google CEO: Change Name to Hide Past
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has suggested a novel approach to offset potentially damaging search-result histories: Change your name once you reach adulthood. “I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time,”...
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Alex Miller of L-3: Ignorance is the Greatest Cyber Threat
Alex Miller is a retired Navy cryptologic officer, who spent more than 33 years in the Navy. He retired in 2005 as a rear admiral while serving as the chief of staff at the National Security Agency. He joined Titan...
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Opinion: DC Power Outage a Preview of Cyber Attack?
Over the weekend, severe thunderstorms wrecked havoc on Washington, D.C. and Maryland, knocking out power to thousands of residents. The storms left some 430,000 customers without power, according to press reports. Of course, with power outages come traffic problems as traffic...
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Roger Anderson of Applied Signal Technology: Current security appliances not much defense against nation-state hackers
Roger Anderson has been involved in intelligence-related activities his entire career. In the 1980s, he worked on Department of Defense TIARA programs while at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. He then joined the CIA and spent 15 years there, working...
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Making it ‘Painful’ for Cyber Crooks Can Deter Criminal Behavior
It started with a minor inconvenience that quickly escalated into nationwide panic. Twenty million of the nation’s smartphones have stopped working, and a massive power outage is spreading throughout the Eastern seaboard. Multiplying in strength, the phone outage soon reaches...
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US Rules Out North Korea’s Role in ‘09 Cyber Attacks
U.S. authorities have all but ruled out the role of North Korea in the cyber attacks which took place around July 4, 2009. Last July, denial of service attacks hit U.S. and South Korean government networks, making several websites briefly unavailable....
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Adult Sites Safer than ‘Legitimate’ Ones, Says New Study
A new report released Monday contradicts the notion of pornographic sites being more virus infected than sites with other kinds of content. “We are not recommending people to start searching for erotic content, not at all, but the statistics are clear:...
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FBI Names First Female Special Agent in Charge for N.Y. Cyber/Special Operations
FBI’s cyber/special operations of the New York division has gotten its first female special agent in charge: Mary E. Galligan will lead the special agent, support, and task-force personnel who provide strategic operational, investigative, and infrastructure support. Galligan is...
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