Australian Police Open Indian Office

The Australian federal police have opened an office in India to enhance cooperation on counter terrorism and crime issues, including cyber crime, the Times of India reports.

The new center will help to protect citizens from terrorist and cyber threats, according to an Australian police official.

“We are involved in anti-terror operations, so we are establishing this to protect…

Featured Job- Cyber-Security Strategist with Northrop Grumman

Roles and Responsibilities: The Cyber-Security and Enterprise Services (CES) Operating Unit within NGIS’s Defense Enterprise Services (DES) Business Unit has an immediate need for a Cyber-Security Strategist (CSS). The CSS will: Be responsible for establishing a multi-year Cyber-Security strategy for CES. This strategy will establish an actionable plan for growing CES’s customer sales with Cyber-Security customers, primarily DoD customers. The strategy will…

Argentinean Government Sites Used in Black Hat SEO Campaigns

Numerous Argentinian government websites were recently compromised by hackers and used in black hat search engine optimization campaigns, according to Sunbelt Software.

Security researchers said 12 government pages were involved in the spamming campaign, with some of them distributing malware as well.

Also called spamdexing, black hat SEO is a technique used by cyber crooks to unethically raise search rankings. Researchers said the SEO campaign used…

Cyber Camps Trains Students for Roles in Cyber Workforce

To educate the next generation of cybersecurity professionals, the Cyber Innovation Center series of cyber summer camps will give young people and educators a chance to participate in various forums focused on cybersecurity, cyber forensics and cyber animation.

The week-long CIC summer camps aim to teach students how to prepare themselves for academic and career pathways through greater understanding…

Starbucks Staffer Steals Credit Card Info to Buy Apple Products

A Starbucks employee in Indonesia has been arrested for running a credit-card scam after Jakarta police received reports by cardholders of illegal transactions.

According to Tempo Interaktif, the 26-year-old suspect made hundreds of unauthorized transactions using Starbucks customers’ credit cards. The staffer was arrested last Sunday in his home, where police found numerous Apple products and 18 purchase and delivery receipts.

Head of the Cyber Crime Unit under the Special Crime…

Fixing the Human Capital Issue in Cyber

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has released a new report on the human capital issues currently facing the cybersecurity effort in the United States. The report, titled “A Human Capital Crisis in Cybersecurity,” claims the United States is currently facing a crisis in that not enough skilled cyber…

International Agreement on Cyber Moves Forward

A group of 15 countries have agreed to engage one another in ways to combat the growing threats on the Internet. The new agreement is a set of recommendations, it is still representative of a change in U.S. tactics, Robert Knake of the Council on Foreign Relations told the Washington Post.

The group of countries, which includes the United States,…

Indian Army Preps for Cyber War

The Indian military is battling cyber attacks with capabilities of the “highest standard,” according to Indian defense officials. The number and skill of attacks has increased dramatically, defense officials told the Times of India.

“The army is cognizant of the threat to its cyber space from various state and non-state actors. But our network is well secured in compliance…

Commerce and NIST Announce Deployment of Cyber Initiative

Last Friday, the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the completion of a cybersecurity initiative in partnership with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and VeriSign.

The announcement surrounds the full deployment of the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), which will help to reduce…

Vatican Gets Google-Bombed

The Vatican was Google-bombed this weekend, with users conducting searches for the Vatican being routed to a site called www.pedofilo.com. The website’s name is the Italian word for paedophile, though Italian reports claim the website was based in Mexico, according to The Register.

The attack appears to have been first noticed by the Vatican, which promptly contacted Google. A Google Italy spokesperson told an Italian news organization that Google…