Featured Job- Cyber Area Strategy Lead with Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman is looking for a Cyber Area Strategy Lead The Cyber Area Strategy lead will develop the business strategy and customer relations activities for the Intelligence Systems Division’s Cyber Strategy activities, across multiple Business Units and multiple customer organizations. Areas of inclusion are: customers, competitors, vision statement development, opportunity identification (pipeline related), funding availability, risks and risk mitigation recommendations, M&A opportunity analysis, Technology need identification, congressional tracking…

Social Networking Scammers Use Porn

Pornography is a favorite medium used by cyber criminals to attract potential victims, with fake pornographic sites collecting data from unsuspecting users and infected sites distributing malware to visitors. Scammers who seek to exploit victims using social networking are now employing this tried and true method as well, according to an article on The Register.

According to the latest security report from Symantec, 92 percent of adult phishing scams,…

The Economic Consequences of Cyber Attacks: An Interview with Scott Borg

The threats emanating from cyberspace are becoming consistent features in the news. Earlier this year, Google revealed it and dozens of other companies had come under cyber attack. Cyber criminals have stolen millions of dollars and the intellectual property of America’s leading…

Cyber Scammers Beware, the British are Coming

The British government has launched a counter cyber scam team and plans to invest 4.3 million pounds within the next three years to combat cyber scams. Online scams, usually initiated via email, currently hit 3 million victims in the UK per year for a total loss of 3.5 billion pounds, according to an article on TheRegister.co.uk.

The new team…

Critical Infrastructure Targeted by Malware

Organizations within the critical infrastructure, such as oil, energy and chemical industries, experienced a higher percentage of malware in 2009 than organizations in other sectors. According to web security firm ScanSafe, critical infrastructure companies experienced at least twice as much malware as other organizations.

According to ScanSafe’s ‘Annual Global Threat Report 2009,’ the energy and oil industries suffered the largest amount of data-theft Trojans, experiencing over 350 percent more…

Lynn Calls for Cybersecurity Cooperation with Australia

The alliance between the United States and Australia has lasted from 1908 to the present day, against a variety of threats from the Kaiser to Bin Laden. During a roundtable with with Australian civic and business people, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III called for that relationship to continue amid present and future…

Featured Job- Java Developer with Booz Allen

Key Role: Perform complex analysis, design, development, testing, and debugging of computer software in support of distinct product hardware, cyber projects, or technical service lines of businesses. Perform activities ranging from software design and operating architecture integration to the selection of computer systems. Build Web and J2EE applications using Java, the SpringBoard framework, SQL, XML, and other tools for a federal client. Develop design specifications and unit test plans…

Genachowski Praises Google’s Broadband Offering

Earlier this week, search engine giant Google announced plans to conduct a high-speed fiber trial in select locations.

Google is asking cities and states to express interest in a fiber service capable of flowing at one gigabit per second. Richard Whitt, Google’s telecom and media counsel, said, “We’re excited to see how consumers, small businesses, anchor institutions, and local governments will take advantage of ultra high-speed access to the Net.”

Google…

Israel Beefs Up Cyber Capabilities

The use of cyberspace on the modern battlefield is essential for the 21st-century military. The United States, Britain and China all have developed cyber capabilities, which can be used for defense and attack. The Israeli Defense Forces have also disclosed their efforts to stand up a cyber capability.

Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, chief of military intelligence with the IDF, said…

Hunting Down the Aurora Creator

Earlier this year, search engine giant Google announced it had been subjected to cyber attacks back in December and more than 20 other companies experienced similar attacks. The attacks, termed Aurora, now appear to have hit even more companies than originally reported, according to DarkReading.com.

However, researchers may be closing in on the identity of the creator of the malware used in the attacks.

Greg Hoglund, founder and CEO of…