Melissa Hathaway: America Has Too Many Ineffective Private-Public Partnerships

The recent INTERPOL conference held in Hong Kong was an important step for the international, strategic environment to bring like-minded nations together to discuss information security, cybersecurity, and share effective practices for protecting key infrastructure, said Melissa Hathaway, president of Hathaway Global Strategies and former cybersecurity official.

Held Sept. 15-17, the event assembled industry…

TASC Adds New Head of Business Development

TASC, Inc. has named Rosemary Budd director of business development, a role in which she will lead the development and implementation of TASC’s integrated strategy to support the missions of government customers at Ft. Meade, including the National Security Agency, DISA, U.S. Cyber Command and related service …

Massive Phishing Attack Zones in on iTunes Users

PandaLabs has discovered that iTunes has become a major target for hackers looking to steal credit-card data from the millions of users.

Victims receive an email informing them they have made an expensive purchase on iTunes. The user, who has never made the purchase, is concerned by the email and tries to solve the problem by clicking on the…

Relentless Facebook Spammer Fined $873 Million

A Canadian man who over a two-month period sent more than four million spam messages to Facebook profiles, promoting marijuana and sexual-enhancement drugs, has now been ordered by the Quebec court to pay $873 million in fines.

Sophos reports that during March and April 2008, Adam Guerbuez sent 4,366,386 spam to users of the popular social network. The fine was originally set in place by California court in 2008. Guerbuez…

Teenager Jailed for Refusing to Give Up Computer Password

A British teenager has been jailed for refusing to give up his computer password in connection with being questioned for suspicion of possessing “indecent child images.” 

The 19-year-old was originally arrested last May, and a spokesperson for Lancashire Constabulary told PC Pro the young male was questioned “on suspicion of possessing indecent child images.”

When police tried to investigate the suspect’s computer, they found it protected by…

Survey: Never Too Young for Email, Facebook

In the digital era, it is never too early to have an online presence, whether you are a toddler, or still waiting to be born.

Last month, AVG polled 2,200 mothers with children under the age of 2 in the United States, U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Canada,…

Programmer Convicted for Planting Logic Bomb in Fannie Mae’s System

A federal jury last week convicted a Maryland-based computer programmer of computer intrusion after he planted a logic bomb on his employer’s computer servers.

Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana was a contractor working at Fannie Mae’s Urbana, Md., facility from 2006 to 2008. As a UNIX engineer, he worked on the organization’s network of nearly 5,000 computer servers.

According to testimony and evidence presented at trial, Makwana was fired Oct. 24, 2008…

Tiger Woods Gets a Hand from Intelligent Decisions

IT firm Intelligent Decisions announced last week it has become a philanthropic partner of the Tiger Woods Foundation, providing a majority of the IT products and services required to open two Tiger Woods Learning Center Campuses in Washington, D.C.

These facilities focus on using a STEM-based (Science, Technology,…

HP to Develop Florida’s Early Learning Information System

HP Enterprise Services has won a $20 million contract by the State of Florida’s Agency for Workforce Innovation to develop, design, implement and maintain the Early Learning Information System for the enhancement of the state’s early learning programs.

“We look forward to assisting Florida with development of ELIS to …

‘Adopt a Hacker’ Offers Developers a Taste of the Big Apple

Inviting a hacker into your home may seem like the last thing you want to do, but members of the New York City tech scene are doing just that in an effort to connect entrepreneurial minds with talented techies outside the Big Apple.

The…