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Capgemini, Microsoft Team Up on Global Cloud Services Plan
Published on 21 Jul, 2011 at 12:59 in Industry News | Viewed 551 times | No Comments
Capgemini announced this week it will be teaming up with Microsoft on a global plan to deploy Capgemini’s services to its customers on the Windows Azure platform.
According to Capgemini, the company will market and deliver services around Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform, mobilizing Capgemini’s full lifecycle capabilities in orchestrating, designing, developing and running cloud-based application services.
“Capgemini already…
FBI Arrests 14 for Alleged Involvement in ‘Anonymous’ DDoS Attacks
Published on 21 Jul, 2011 at 11:22 in Cyber | Viewed 39 times | No Comments
The FBI announced this week the arrest of 14 suspected members of hacking collective Anonymous for their alleged involvement in December’s cyber attack on PayPal’s website.
The arrests are part of FBI‘s ongoing investigation into coordinated cyber attacks against major companies and organizations. The 14 individuals were arrested in 10 different states across the country and are being charged for allegedly coordinating and executing attacks against…
NIST Proposes New Privacy Controls
Published on 20 Jul, 2011 at 15:20 in Cyber | Viewed 54 times | No Comments
To address the challenges of securing the privacy of citizens’ personal identifiable information, the National Institute of Standards and Technology released a new draft document yesterday that suggests adding privacy controls to the catalog of security controls used to protect federal information and information systems.
According to NIST, the new Privacy Control Catalog would be added as…
Obama to Nominate Cyber Lawyer Maureen K. Ohlhausen as FTC Commissioner
Published on 20 Jul, 2011 at 15:04 in Cyber | Viewed 46 times | No Comments
The White House announced yesterday President Barack Obama’s intent to nominate Maureen K. Ohlhausen as a commissioner to the Federal Trade Commission.
Ohlhausen is currently an attorney at Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP, where she works in the firm’s privacy, data protection and cybersecurity practice. If confirmed by the Senate, she would…
Former Contractor Accused of Stealing Business Secrets from AT&T Servers
Published on 20 Jul, 2011 at 14:30 in Cyber | Viewed 57 times | No Comments
A New Mexico man who previously worked as a contractor for AT&T is accused of stealing confidential business information stored on the company’s servers and posting it on a public file-sharing site, the FBI’s Newark division said.
According to the criminal complaint, Lance Moore, 21, who worked as a customer support contractor, allegedly in April of this year downloaded thousands of spreadsheets, documents, presentations, applications and other files related…
Survey: Companies Sacrifice System Security for Better Performance
Published on 20 Jul, 2011 at 13:52 in Cyber | Viewed 64 times | No Comments
A recent survey has revealed that IT security personnel at many large corporations are sacrificing critical security measures to meet network performance demands for business applications.
Crossbeam Systems polled nearly 500 IT executives at large, global corporations and found that 90 percent of respondents admit to making…
FBI Nabs Alleged InfraGard Hacker
Published on 20 Jul, 2011 at 13:21 in Cyber | Viewed 135 times | No Comments
FBI agents yesterday arrested a 21-year-old man believed to have participated in a recent cyber attack on InfraGard, the bureau’s initiative with the private sector to fight terrorist threats against the nation.
According to the criminal complaint, Scott Matthew Arciszewski, a University of Central Florida student, uploaded three files that damaged the server of InfraGard Tampa Chapter by “impairing the integrity of the server.”
Using the name voodooKobra,…
Dell Announces Plans to Purchase Force10 Networks
Published on 20 Jul, 2011 at 11:45 in Industry News | Viewed 854 times | No Comments
Dell today announced it has an agreement to acquire Force10 Networks, Inc., which provides solutions designed to deliver new economics by virtualizing and automating conventional data center and cloud networks.
Force10’s networking capabilities complement Dell’s data center solutions portfolio, enabling it to offer customers a broader range of enterprise offerings, Dell said in a release.
“Today’s data…
10 Cybersecurity Stocks to Look to in the Future
Published on 20 Jul, 2011 at 11:38 in GovCon Industry | Viewed 238 times | No Comments
With a growing rate of publicized hacking incidents, the demand for information security has companies, governments and investors looking toward IT security providers for protection from network intruders. The industry has experienced a rapid growth within the market, and many companies are acquiring IT solutions to join in on the growing demand.
Although the market…
Alleged Hacker Faces 35 Years in Jail for Theft of Scholarly Articles
Published on 19 Jul, 2011 at 15:08 in Cyber | Viewed 53 times | No Comments
Of all the things to steal, scholarly articles may not top many hackers’ wish lists. However, a former fellow at Harvard’s Center for Ethics is accused of doing just that: stealing millions of academic texts with the intent of sharing them online.
According to the Boston Herald, prosecutors allege Aaron Swartz, 24, used the name Gary Host or “ghost” to hack into the MIT computer network and download…
