House Committee Approves Restructuring of NIST

A bill approved by a House Committee Wednesday could result in the first restructuring of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in around twenty years. The House Science and Technology Committee has approved the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act, which looks to promote the current director of NIST, Patrick Gallagher, to the position of undersecretary for standards and…

Indian Center Develops Plan to Counter Cyber Terrorism

Authorities in India are becoming increasingly concerned and vocal about the threat of cyber terrorism and cyber attacks. In an effort to meet the threat, Indian authorities have  formulated a Crisis Management Plan to counter cyber attacks that can be implemented across the government.

The new plan largely comes as a result of the findings of the University…

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Jail Time and $2.5 Million Fine for Cyber Criminal

A man in India was sentenced to close to seven years in prison and ordered to pay restitution of around $2.5 million for hacking into the brokerage accounts. He then used the compromised accounts to manipulate stock prices.

Jaisankar Marimuthu, 36, of Chennai, India, was ordered by the court to pay around $2.5 million is restitution to over 90 victims and seven brokerage firms. Back in February, he plead guilty…

San Francisco’s Rogue System Admin Found Guilty

Terry Childs, a system administrator working in San Francisco who refused to disclose the passwords for the city’s network, was found guilty of computer tampering, according to The Register.

Childs has been in custody for the past two years awaiting trial. His sentencing hearing will take place on June 14.

He refused to turn over the passwords when he heard that he was going to be laid off. He claims he…

Storm Worm Back From the Dead

The infamous Storm Worm has returned from the dead, according to researchers with CA. Storm was once responsible for 20 percent of the world’s spam but began to decline in 2007 when Microsoft undertook a massive cleaning operation. Eventually, the botnet was allegedly destroyed.

CA researchers claim that they have found a new botnet that bears a number of characteristics of the Storm botnet and is currently sending a…

Cyber Attack Me? I’ll Send Special Forces After You

Fault Lines, a television program run by Al Jazeera, recently ran a segment on cyber warfare, which included interviews with notable experts like Michael Chertoff and James Lewis. During his interview, Chertoff discussed the possiblity of responding to a cyber attack with kinetic response, such as utilizing Special Forces to go and take down the server conducting…

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Soccer World Cup Propels Cyber Crime in South Africa

Africa is currently seeing a spur of phishing attacks, and with South Africa’s hosting of the World Cup this year, cyber criminals in that region are getting even busier.

“Major sporting events provide a perfect cover behind which cyber criminals can launch sophisticated attacks on individuals, companies and governments,” Symantec researchers said. “These range from simple identity theft to full-blown denial of service attacks.”

Symantec…

Malware Accounts for 73 Percent of Threats in US, Microsoft Study Finds

According to a recently released Microsoft study, the vast majority of threats detected on infected computers in the U.S. are malware. The firm detected malware on 7.8 out of every 1,000 computers scanned in the U.S.

Trojans were the most common form of malware found on infected U.S. computers. The U.S., China and Brazil were the top three nations with infected computers cleaned by Microsoft software. The report also found…