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Swede, U.S. Citizen Accused of Running Scareware Scam

Written on 28 May, 2010 at 13:38 in Cyber Incidents | viewed 150 views times | 0 Comments

An international cyber crime group is accused of luring Internet users in more than 60 countries to buy more than one million bogus software products, causing victims to lose more than $100 million. The charges allege that a Cincinnati-area man... (Continue reading)

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FISMA II Looks to Institute Performance-Based Metrics

Written on 28 May, 2010 at 10:37 in Featured Stories | viewed 303 views times | 3 Comments
FISMA II Looks to Institute Performance-Based Metrics

With 40 some pieces of cybersecurity legislation pending before Congress, FISMA II is one that has drawn significant attention from the government-contracting world. While most government agencies and federal contractors learned to check the box and implement whatever measures the... (Continue reading)

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UA Student Pleads Guilty to Launching Botnet Attacks

Written on 28 May, 2010 at 9:37 in Cyber Incidents | viewed 161 views times | 0 Comments

A former undergraduate at the University of Akron pleaded guilty Thursday to charges he hacked into the school’s computer system to launch botnet attacks. Mitchell L. Frost of Ohio was charged with one count of causing damage to a... (Continue reading)

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Sameer Bhalotra to Back Up Howard Schmidt?

Written on 28 May, 2010 at 9:29 in Cyber Policy | viewed 193 views times | 1 Comment
Sameer Bhalotra to Back Up Howard Schmidt?

There have been some whispers in the capital that White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt will shortly name Sameer Bhalotra as deputy cybersecurity coordinator. Bhalotra is the senior cybersecurity staffer on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and has... (Continue reading)

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Jobs Site in UK Gets Hacked

Written on 28 May, 2010 at 9:15 in Cyber Incidents | viewed 48 views times | 0 Comments

Jobs sites run by Trinity Mirror Group have been hacked, according to a blog post by the company. JobSearch.co.uk and jobs.mirror.co.uk were both hacked on May 19. “Our security systems have detected a concerted and sophisticated attempt this afternoon to... (Continue reading)

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Japanese Police Arrest Alleged Spammers

Written on 28 May, 2010 at 9:06 in Cyber Incidents | viewed 46 views times | 0 Comments

Police in Japan have arrested two men  suspected of being involved in an alleged Hentai-themed malware scam campaign. Oka Akira, 27, from Tokyo and an unnamed 20-year-old are accused of defrauding tens of thousands of yen from a minority of... (Continue reading)

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Bob Brammer Leads Panel Discussion on Cyber R&D Collaboration

Written on 28 May, 2010 at 8:48 in Cyber Policy | viewed 44 views times | 0 Comments
Bob Brammer Leads Panel Discussion on Cyber R&D Collaboration

During the Annual Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) STRATCOM Cyberspace Symposium, Dr. Bob Brammer, Northrop Grumman Information Systems Sector vice president and chief technology officer, led a panel that called for increased collaboration in cybersecurity research. The panel... (Continue reading)

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Cyber Threat Needs to be Addressed ‘Very, Very Rapidly,’ Says Adm. Mullen

Written on 28 May, 2010 at 8:21 in Cyber Policy | viewed 79 views times | 0 Comments
Cyber Threat Needs to be Addressed 'Very, Very Rapidly,' Says Adm. Mullen

As cyberspace will change how America fights in the next two decades, leaders at all levels need to understand the threats and help the military deal with them, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen  told graduates at the U.S. Air Force Academy... (Continue reading)

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Featured Job- Cyber Capture Manager with Northrop Grumman

Written on 28 May, 2010 at 8:08 in Featured Jobs | viewed 43 views times | 0 Comments

Job Description Description: Northrop Grumman is seeking a Capture Manager that will support the Information Operations Operating Unit of the Cyber and SIGINT Systems (C&SS) Business Unit in the Intelligence Systems Division. The C&SS BU is a critical participant... (Continue reading)

44 Million Stolen Gaming Credentials Discovered

Written on 27 May, 2010 at 12:56 in Cyber Incidents | viewed 167 views times | 0 Comments

If you are an online gamer–think World of Warcraft and Aion–better get that password changed ASAP: Symantec has discovered a server hosting the credentials of 44 million stolen gaming accounts, validated by a Trojan distributed to compromised computers. The database server... (Continue reading)

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