Georgetown Cyber Expert Interview: Obama Good Start/Research Needed

Associate Provost at Georgetown University and cyber expert on the CSIS Cyber Security Commission Professor Marjory Blumenthal spoke with The New New Internet about the White House Cyber Security Policy. Professor Blumenthal believes a trial and error model is needed to create effective change in cybersecurity and that international cyber law will eventually be utilized and could be similar to OECD.  Research is…

Cyber Security: Space Race of the 60s According to Cyber Expert Interview

Sami Saydjari, founder and President of Cyber Defense Agency and a former NSA fellow with more than 20 years in the field of cyber defense, spoke with The New New Internet regarding the future of cyber security. Comparing Obama’s new emphasis of cyber defense to the space race of the 50s and 60s, Saydjari also agrees with the President of INSA…

US vs. Russia: Cyber Space Dispute

The United States and Russia disagree upon many things, cybersecurity is no exception. Russia would like an international treaty to prevent what it sees as the next potential arms race. Russia argues that an international treaty would ban countries from engaging in military cyber warfare, similar to past chemical warfare negotiations, and is therefore  in the best interst of every nation’s national…

Former DHS Cyber Chief New CEO of ICANN: Beckstrom

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the appointment of  new CEO Rod Beckstrom late last week. Rod Beckstrom is best known for his position as US cybersecurity chief at the Department of Homeland Security and is co-author of The Starfish and the Spider, a book that advocates a mixed centralized and decentralized business sturcure. The former cybersecurity…

EU Report Blames China for Cali Power Grid Blackout of 2001

The European Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, authored by Dr Paul Cornish, published in February of 2009 the “Cyber Security and Politically, Socially and Religiously Motivated Cyber Attacks”  . The study describes in great detail the increase use of the internet as a tool for destruction and political gain. Referencing the usual suspects such as the Estonia blackout of 2007, the study also citied a striking revelation,

“In…

UK Cybersecurity Strategy to Focus on Small Businesses

According to a government-funded security group involved in rolling out the UK’s new cybersecurity strategy, the government will make a particular effort to engage small and medium-sized enterprises.

Tony Dyhouse, director of the Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network, said the large organizations governing critical national…

UK Hires ‘Naughty’ Cyber Experts

The UK has not only created its own version of a ‘cyber czar’, but has also updated its ‘national security strategy’ with a new Cyber Security Operations Centre under the GCHQ, the UK’s leading intelligence Agency. The new centre is very similar to the recently announced ‘Cybercom’ under the US Department of  Defense. The UK has declared a new and more aggressive stance on cyber crime. 

In a speech earlier today Prime Minister Gordon Brown explained, “Just…

Malware: Is Twitter Safe?

Earlier this year, it was widely reported that the Twitter accounts of prominent American figures ranging from Britney Spears to President Barack Obama were hacked, causing fake tweet’ to be displayed under the victims’ accounts.

With the recent hacking of Twitter account holder Guy Kawasaki, former Apple fellow and managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, The New New Internet asks, is Twitter safe?

The…

TJ Maxx: Pays Millions for Poor Cybersecurity

T.J. Maxx dished out a $9.75 million settlement to states where tens of millions credit and debit card numbers were exposed by cyber thieves over 2005/2006.

The security breach affected more than $45 million credit and debit card holders in 41 states, beginning in July of 2005, but was not discovered until December 2006.

Last year, TJ Maxx offered $24 million to customers who…

Cyber Command: Gates Makes it Official

Through a quiet three-page memo on Tuesday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the Department of Defense’s commitment to a new cyber military command center titled Cybercom.

The announcement reflects growing emphases of the Obama administration’s revamping and centralization of cyber security. The creation of the White House cyber coordinator and the centralization of military cyber security…