Featured Job- Cyber CI Analyst with ManTech

Req ID 36337BR Title Cyber CI Analyst Division MCTS Location DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington Security Clearance Required Yes Clearance Level Needed TS/SCI Job Duties and Responsibilities

The Cyber Business Unit of ManTech is looking for a highly motivated, qualified professional to fill a Cyber Counter- Intelligence Analyst position in Washington, DC. A wide range of knowledge and skills are needed such as:

Provide support to the Enterprise Security Operations Center in the…

Gov Info Sharing

Public-private partnerships are often the cornerstone of influential legislation. With a new bill about cybersecurity going through both houses, public-private partnerships will  be extended between intelligence agencies and the private sector. Historically, such partnerships have caused major issues and public outrage such as the AT&T involvement with warrantless surveillance. But this new legislation hopes to change the…

Roland Cloutier of ADP Joins National Cyber Security Alliance Board

Roland Cloutier, vice president and chief security officer at Automatic Data Processing, Inc., has joined the board of the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA). The NCSA is a non-profit that looks to enhance public-private partnerships in the field of cybersecurity, bringing together members of industry, government, academia and non-profit organizations.

The NCSA board also includes representatives from AT&T,…

Parliament Sees UK as Cybersecurity Leader for EU

The House of Lords European Union Committee has released a report which examines the UK’s cyber capabilities and the efforts in the EU. The Committee determined that the UK is “reasonably well placed” to handle cyber issues.

The report praised the UK efforts, saying that the UK is “thought to be a leader among member states, with developed …

Beward of Fake Email Facebook Warns

Social networking giant Facebook has issued a warning to users regarding a new scam that tricks users into downloading a Trojan onto their computers. The Trojan enables the cyber criminal to steal a user’s password for the social networking site.

Once that occurs, the cyber criminal is able to use the compromised account to launch spam attacks against other users. Also, the criminal can steal login credentials for other websites,…

UK School Children: NextGen Hackers?

One in four children of school age in the UK have admitted to attempting to hack into an email or Facebook account, according to a recent survey. The poll, which surveyed 1,000 students in London and 150 from Cumbria, found that almost 80 percent of students understood that hacking was wrong. Nevetheless, one quarter of students admitted to attempted…

Vodaphone Spain Admits Shipping Thousands of Infected Smartphones

Earlier this week, The New New Internet reported that Vodaphone Spain has shipped two pre-infected smartphones to security researchers at Panda Security and S21Sec. After each incident, a Vodaphone Spain spokesman claimed that the incidents were isolated.

Late yesterday, however, the company admitted to the Spanish press, that it shipped 3,000 smartphones that may be infected with Mariposa botnet malware. The admission came following a meeting…

Featured Job- Cybersecurity Systems Engineer with QinetiQ

Responsibilities: Participate as a member of the Cyber Security Team with specific responsibilities in the system development life-cycle including, system architecture development, system development, system integration, interaction with technical partners, tailoring the offering for specific customer engagements, and life-cycle maintenance of installed system solutions. The candidate will be a primary lead for the definition of the Cyber Security offering architecture and for…

Vodafone Spain Provides Botnet Smartphone

Vodafone Spain has provided a pre-infected smartphone to a researcher at S21Sec, one week after a similar incident in which the company provided an infected smartphone to a researcher at Panda Security. The smartphones are infected with the Mariposa botnet client and other malware.

Both of the smartphones were order at approximately the same time, according to The Register. When the incident with Panda Security occurred, Vodafone claimed that it…

Madoff Programmers Indicted

Two computer programmers were indicted by the Federal Grand Jury on charges in fraud and conspiracy. Jerome O’Hara and George Perez knowingly  created the software programs used by Bernard Madoff to “cook the books” in the billion dollar bonzi scheme.

The indictment claims  O’Hara and Perez knew their programs were being used to falsify information being provided to the United States Security and Exchange commission….