Northrop Grumman to Help Find NextGen Cyber Pros

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has announced that it will serve as the “Presenting Sponsor” of AFA’s Cyber Patriot III, a high school cyber defense competition that is designed to nurture interest in the cyber professions.

The sponsorship was announced yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

“Northrop Grumman is proud to contribute its time and…

Cybersecurity Poses Significant Challenges for DoD, Government

Implementing cybersecurity measures poses significant challenges for the Department of Defense, the government and for critical infrastructure, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy James N. Miller said yesterday.

Miller said cybersecurity “is not a glass half full/glass half empty story.”

“There is a glass,” he said. “It has some water in it. The water is dirty, and we have an insatiable thirst in this area.”

Miller said…

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Joe the Plumber Can Become a Hacker in 15 Minutes

Twitter followers can now learn a new skill, hacking or at the very least, how to think like a hacker to be protect themselves.

Ligatt Security International has launched a Twitter campaign called “How To Become A Hacker in 15 Minutes,” which is designed to provide Internet users with knowledge about hacker techniques, so they can avoid falling victim to…

Regulators Rule out Cyber Attack in Stock Market Plunge

Last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged by close to 1,000 points, a plunge that some blamed on a cyber attack. Yesterday, in testimony before the House Financial Services subcommittee, Mary Schapiro, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, dismissed that as a possibility.

“At this time, we have not identified any information consistent with computer hacker or terrorist activity,” Schapiro said in prepared testimony.

“Ultimately, we may…

Telecom DoS Hides Cyber Crime

The recent spike in unsolicited and mysterious telephone calls may be part of a new scheme to use telecommunications distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to distract individuals from ongoing cyber crime, the FBI warned recently.

According to the FBI, cyber criminals are using telephone calls to mobile and land-lines to distract victims from the attempts by the criminals to empty their bank and trading accounts. The attacks, known as…

US Sits Down with ‘The Bear’ to Discuss Cybersecurity

Starting yesterday and continuing to May 14, representatives from the United States and Russia will meet to discuss information and communication technology.

The U.S.-Russia Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Roundtable, which is the first since 2004, will look to open  “a dialogue on a range of topics including broadband, internet governance, cybersecurity, spectrum management, the analog to digital TV…

Daniel Geer on Cyber National Policy

In a recent essay in Harvard’s National Security Journal, security expert Daniel Geer proposes how cyber insecurity is the paramount national security risk because of the nation’s ability to project power depends on IT.

Geer sums up three risks that can be considered national security concerns, the first being “any mechanism that, to operate correctly, must be a single point of function, thereby containing a single point of…

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Teenage Sony Hacker Sentenced to 1 Year’s Probation

A Pennsylvania-based teenage hacker who employed botnets to paralyze Sony Entertainment Corporation’s video-gaming website has been sentenced to serve one year on probation, perform 250 hours of community service and pay Sony $5,000, pittsburghlive.com reports.

The 11th grader was found guilty of using a computer for illegal motives, computer encroaching and distribution of virus that caused Sony’s gaming website to crash in November 2008. The boy decided to bring…