McAfee Joins Acquisition Wave

In order to build cyber capabilities, companies have one of two options; invest into expanding your own offerings by building the capabilities into your company structure or acquire a company that already has the capabilities you are seeking. Last week, Harris Corporation and Symantec each announced several acquisition moves.

McAfee (NYSE:MFE)…

BAE Looks to Attract Government Cyber Contracts

As cybersecurity grows in importance, and the dearth of skilled cyber professionals working in government is accentuated, the government is turning more and more to the private sector to provide cybersecurity solutions. BAE Systems North America is working to position itself as a leader in the cybersecurity market.

“Our adversaries will hide. They have every motivation not to be…

Ex-FBI Contract Linguist Jailed for Leaking Secret Info to Blogger

A former FBI contract linguist will be serving time for leaking classified information to a blogger.

Shamai Kedem Leibowitz, aka Samuel Shamai Leibowitz, of Silver Spring, Md., was sentenced to 20 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for unlawfully providing classified documents to the host of blogs who then published  information from those documents online.

“The willful disclosure of classified information to those not entitled to receive…

Hackers Target Small Businesses

The Better Business Bureau of Minnesota and North Dakota and the Minnesota Cyber Crime Task Force are urging all small businesses with outdated or lacking online security software to be aware of foreign hackers stealing credit-card information and then selling it on the web.

Businesses targeted by these cyber intrusions could be liable for any losses involving stolen credit-card data, which could potentially bankrupt smaller enterprises. All small businesses that…

Second Scientology DDoS Attacker Jailed

A Nebraska man has been jailed for a year and ordered to pay $20,000 in compensation to the Church of Scientology for participating in the 2008 DDoS attacks that crashed the organization’s websites.

According to court documents, Brian Thomas Mettenbrink participated in the attack on the Scientology websites orchestrated by the underground hacker group Anonymous. He admitted downloading computer software from an Anonymous message board and using it to bombard…

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John Koenig: ‘The Real Issue is the Definition of Cyber’

John Koenig started his career at Harris Corporation in the mid-1980s, working in the government systems group. He left Harris briefly to pursue projects in telecommunications, only to return to a company whose environment he calls “challenging, demanding, fair, exciting.” In an interview with TheNewNewInternet, he talked about his work as vice president of…

ISP Forced to Pay $807,000 in Spam Case

An internet service provider (ISP) has been ordered to pay a $807,000 fee after a judge ruled that the spam case the company filed was “groundless.” Asis Internet Services has filed over twenty lawsuits alleging spam attacks by users.

Earlier this month, the company won $2.6 million in a separate spam lawsuit. In the most recent case, the judge ruled that Asis kept pursuing the case without adequate evidence against…

Researcher Finds New Type of Phishing Attack

A researcher has found a new method for carrying out phishing attacks “that takes advantage of the way that browsers handle tabbed browsing and enables an attacker to use a script running in one tab to completely change the content in another tab,” according to ThreatPost.

The attack, discovered by Aza Raskin of Mozilla, relies on users visiting a controlled infected website. When the user visits…

Army Special Agent Receives Cyber Defender Award

Special Agent Thomas M. Williamson received the outstanding special agent of the year award from U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Command’s Computer Crime Investigation Unit, according to a blog post by White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt.

“Special Agent Thomas M. Williamson delivered the highest levels of support,” Schmidt writes. “He directly contributed…