Melissa Hathaway to Deliver Remarks at ANSI Caucus Luncheon

Cyber expert Melissa Hathaway will be delivering remarks at the Nov. 12 American National Standards Institute Caucus Luncheon held in Washington, D.C.

Hathaway serves as president of Hathaway Global Strategies, LLC, and as senior adviser at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. She previously was the senior director for cyberspace at the National…

Jordan Takes Strides to Battle Piracy, Intellectual Property Rights Breaches

Jordan’s capital of Amman has hosted its first-ever First Regional IPR and Cyber Crime Conference, highlighting the progress of Arab countries in intellectual property rights protection, and exploring recommendations for governments and companies on how reduce software piracy.

Two-thirds of Middle East companies are at risk of using unlicensed or pirated software,…

Hackers Burglarize Virtual Home, Steal Everything but Virtual Cat

Police in Italy are investigating a home burglary that occurred within Facebook popular game Pet Society, according to msnbc.com.

Pet Society is a social pet simulation game from Playfish that allows players to decorate virtual houses and buy virtual clothes for their virtual pets.

Paola Letizia of Palermo, Italy, told police a hacker emptied her virtual home within the game, taking everything but the blue-colored cat that lived there.

According to…

New Book Claims Hacker Tried to Sabotage Historic Mandela Election

A new book in South Africa claims a hacker tried to sabotage the historic election in 1994, which ended apartheid and brought Nelson Mandela to power.

According to BBC, “Birth: The Conspiracy to Stop the ’94 Election” by Peter Harris, who was the head of the official election monitoring division, says the hacker penetrated what was thought to be a hacker-proof system. Although the intrusion was…

Juniper’s Bob Dix: The Cyber Epidemic Needs to be Addressed

When it comes to good cyber hygiene, the U.S. government should take the same approach in educating the public as it did with the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009, involving both private and public sectors to raise awareness of the hazard, according to a cybersecurity expert.

“Now, it’s a cyber epidemic,” said

Teri Takai Named New DoD CIO

Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates announced yesterday his appointment of Teri Takai as DoD chief information officer.

Takai previously served as CIO for the state of California and was a past president of the National Association of State CIOs.  Named one of Government Technology’s Top 25 “Doers, Dreamers…

World’s Riskiest Web Domains

The world’s busiest web domain, .com, is now the most dangerous, according to McAfee’s fourth annual Mapping the Mal Web report released today.

While .com was found to be the riskiest top-level domain, the most dangerous country domain is Vietnam (.vn). Japan’s .jp ranks as the safest country domain for the second…

Hacked South African ISP Blames WikiLeaks, Americans

South African Internet service provider MWEB has been hacked and the details of several of their business clients published online, according to News24.

It is unclear how the hacker breached the MWEB database, but a posting on SecLists.org revealed names and login details from various companies.

“We have 1 000 clients still on the Internet Solutions network and we are busy migrating them off that old server (which is) the one…

Iranian Cyber Army Hacker Group Offers Botnets-for-Hire

The so-called Iranian Cyber Army, a group of hackers with alleged links to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, is reportedly getting into the botnet business.

The group, which hacked Twitter and Chinese search engine Baidu last year, has been offering its services on the cyber black market by renting access to its botnet, PCWorld reports. Last month, the group took credit for cyber attacking TechCrunch’s European website.

Researchers…

Honeywell Wins Biggest Share of Army Deal

Technology provider Honeywell has been awarded a logistics contracts worth more than $230 million from the U.S. Army Sustainment Command to manage global inventory, maintenance and operations for three Army Field Support Brigades.

Honeywell received the largest single share of the contracts awarded under the U.S. Army’s integrated support service program. Company subsidiary Honeywell…