Top DHS Official Publishes New Document on Cyber Defense

As deputy undersecretary of Homeland Security’s National Protection and Programs Directorate, Philip Reitinger’s daily tasks call on him to protect the government’s computer systems from domestic and foreign threats.

“Unless people start to pay attention to the threat and how we need to drive fundamental change, we’re in a world that is going to get…

Survey: Data Breach Bigger Fear than Hacker Attacks

Seventy percent of compliance professionals feel their organizations are well or very well prepared to counter cyber attacks, however, their confidence decreases significantly when assessing other data breach threats, according to a new survey.

More than half (61 percent) of the polled individuals in Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics and…

Neustar Launches DDoS Protection Solution

Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR) yesterday announced the launch of SiteProtect, a cloud-based service for UltraDNS customers that ups the security against distributed denial-of-service attacks on online properties.

SiteProtect allows customers’ web infrastructure to operate normally under attack, thus avoiding downtime and the associated loss of potential revenue. Combined with Neustar…

Report Indicates Trojan Threats Increasing

A new report tracking the number of IT threats in the first quarter of this year shows the number of threats has increased 26 percent since March of 2010.

PandaLabs published the report and concluded the majority of IT threats came from Trojans.

The virus comprised 70 percent of the new malware created. The report found the daily average of malware samples came to more than 70,000. Hackers…

No Fashion Crime — Former Gucci Employee Charged with Hacking

This was no crime of fashion.

A former network engineer for Gucci was charged in New York this week in a 50-count indictment for illegally invading Gucci’s computer system, deleting emails, files, several virtual servers and shutting down a storage area network.

According to documents filed in court, Sam Chihlung Yin accessed the system by secretly creating a virtual private network with a fictional name. A month after he was…

Finalists Announced in Women in Technology Leadership Awards

President and CEO of the Engle Group Marty Engle has been selected as a finalist in the 12th annual Women in Technology Leadership Awards. The awards program honors leading female professionals in the Washington, D.C. metro area who have exemplified talent in the technology industry.

The 26-year business has provided…

IBM Opens Doors to Belgium-based Security Center

IBM (NYSE: IBM) last week announced the launch of the IBM Institute for Advanced Security in Europe, an expansion of its companywide initiative to provide government and other organizations with a global network of security research, services, software and technology expertise.

Based in Brussels, the IBM Institute for Advanced Security in Europe will…

Anonymous Wages War on Sony

Infamous hacktivist collective Anonymous has turned its eye to Sony, with denial-of-service attacks in retaliation for the tech giant’s lawsuit against a PS3 hacker who is accused of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and for allegedly contributing to copyright infringement.

Earlier this year, Sony filed for a restraining order against a group of PS3 hackers, most notably George Hotz, aka…

IPv6 — Are We There Yet? Yes, Some Say

In a Sept. 28, 2010 memo, federal CIO Vivek Kundra laid out specific steps for agencies to expedite the operational deployment and use of IPv6 — the so-called Next Generation Net, which is an updated infrastructure of the current system, IPv4.

Designed to provide new services and capabilities, the new protocol would extend the…

CIBER Names BearingPoint Exec New CIO

CIBER, Inc. (NYSE: CBR) has named Eric Goldfarb, a former BearingPoint, Inc. senior executive and CIO,  executive vice president and CIO.

Goldfarb’s experience and industry knowledge are “perfectly aligned” to make sure  CIBER accomplishes its key initiatives, said CIBER’s Chief Executive Officer Dave Peterschmidt.

“Eric has a distinguished track…