CIOs See Cybersecurity as Greatest Challenge

Chief Information Officers at various federal agencies believe that cybersecurity is the greatest long-term challenge that they face, according to a survey conducted by TechAmerica. The IT infrastructure and IT workforce also remain areas of greater concern.

In the survey, several CIOs reported that they see millions of attempts per day to attack their networks. While the majority…

Hackers Can Intercept Sensitive Data over Search Engines

Researchers at Indiana University and Microsoft have demonstrated that you can find and intercept a host of sensitive data over popular search engines. The researchers were able to access health records, search queries, family income and numerous other bits of sensitive information.

By analyzing the size and other attributes of the exchanges between a user and the search engine, researchers were able to determine what type of sensitive data was…

Bill Looks to Hit at Cyber Crime Havens

A bill introduced in the Senate yesterday calls for countries that fail to crack down on cyber criminals within their borders would lose U.S. resources and financial assistance. The bill, the International Cybercrime Reporting and Cooperation Act, would require the President to select “countries of cyber concern” and then make plans to help them combat cyber crime.

Any country on…

Finnish Database Breached, Reveals Poor Cyber Hygiene

Earlier this week, the database of a popular Finnish game and quiz website was compromised, leaking more than 127,000 user names and passwords, according to researchers at F-Secure. Älypää, the popular website, suspended service following the attack.

While the website does not keep any personal data on individuals using the website, the real danger from this event is that passwords have been compromised. Most people reuse their passwords for multiple…

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State Department, Senate Consider Creation of ‘Cyber Ambassador’

Following cyber attacks against Google, officials at the State Department and Congress are considering proposals to create an ambassador-like cybersecurity post and the Senate Foreign Relations committee is considering tying U.S. financial aid to foreign countries’ ability to effectively police cyber crime.

The “cyber ambassador” would negotiate cyber policy at the UN and make sure the…

DC Makes ‘Norton’s Riskiest Online Cities’ List

According to a new report released by Norton via Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) Washington D.C. qualifies as one of the riskiest American cities to live in – in terms of cybersecurity that is.

Here is the entire list:

1.) Seattle 2.) Boston 3.) Washington, D.C. 4.) San Francisco 5.) Raleigh, N.C. 6.) Atlanta 7.) Minneapolis 8.) Denver 9.) Austin, Texas 10.) Portland, Ore.

The rankings were determined through a combination of…

Internet Security Alliance Announces Support for Cyber Bill

The latest version of S 773, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee’s cyber security legislation, is expected to be approved by the Committee on Wednesday. The Internet Security Alliance (ISA) has announced its support for the new version of the bill, which removed the…

Germans Warn Not to Use Firefox, Firefox Patches Early

BürgerCERT, the German cybersecurity response team, has issued a warning to Internet users in Germany to avoid using Mozilla Firefox as a browser until a patch is released that fixes a critical vulnerability. Firefox initially planned to patch the problem in its next scheduled release on March 30th.

The flaw was initially discovered by Evgeny Legerov, a security researcher. The zero day vulnerability created a hole that allowed…

Research Looks to Remove Mysticism from DDoS

Researchers at Team Cymru, an Internet security research organization, is publishing a four part series that looks to explain how and why distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks occur. While larger companies, particularly ISPs are able to access reports from larger monitoring firms, smaller businesses do not have a source for information, which is the gap that Team Cymru’s reports hope to fill.

The reports detail the different types of…