DHS Provides Internet Safety Tips for Parents

As part of the Stop. Think. Connect. campaign, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security outlined yesterday several tips parents can use to protect their children from Internet predators. 

“Cyber predators are real,” DHS wrote in a blog post. “They use the anonymity of the Internet to target victims, especially today’s youth, with unwanted solicitations, harassment, and fraud. It’s…

Hackers Access Norway Shooter’s Email Accounts

A Norwegian hacking collective claims to have accessed two email accounts belonging to mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, the man who killed more than 70 people in attacks that shocked the world last month.

The hacktivists, who go by the name Noria, reportedly accessed the emails after breaking into Breivik’s Twitter account. They then turned the materials over to freelance journalist Kjetil Stormark and asked him to pass them on…

Intel’s David Hoffman Joins NCSA Board of Directors

The National Cyber Security Alliance announced today David Hoffman, director of security policy and global privacy officer at Intel Corporation, has been named to the organization’s board of directors. NCSA is a nonprofit public-private partnership focused on cybersecurity awareness and education.

Hoffman is an expert in cybersecurity issues and will support the organization’s mission to create a culture of…

White Oak Technologies Appoints Michael Fox as CSO, SVP

White Oak Technologies announced yesterday the appointment of Michael Fox as the new chief strategy officer and senior vice president of the company’s corporate business development. Fox joins WOTI from Attain LLC, where he held a similar position.

According to WOTI, a technology solutions provider for the intelligence community, Fox will use…

Facebook Enhances Mobile Security

Facebook announced yesterday that it is currently working on strengthening its mobile security by introducing two new features that are currently only available online — social reporting and the ability to reset passwords.

According to a new note on the Facebook Security page, engineers have been testing social reporting on Facebook’s mobile site and expect it to be added to…

EC-Council Gears Up for Cybersecurity Summit

The International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants is gearing up for its first-ever CAST Summit, an advanced cybersecurity seminar held this month in Washington, D.C.

The conference was created by the EC-Council to provide advanced security training opportunities for information security professionals and will touch on topics such as penetration testing, cryptography, application security and mobile forensics.

The summit will also include a network…

IBM’s ‘Smart City’ Helps Municipal Planners See the Future

As part of its effort to build a “smarter city,” IBM announced today the release of its interactive computer simulation model that aims to help city officials understand the relationships that exist among the city’s core systems and predict the outcomes and effects of different policy decisions.

The System Dynamics for Smarter Cities model was…

New Email Hoax Targets FBI Officials

The Internet Crime Complaint Center announced today that officials and high ranking members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation are being targeted by a new spam attack that uses specific names of members and divisions within the agency to trick recipients into opening emails.

According to IC3, the email alerts the recipient that two “trunk boxes” containing large sums of money were intercepted at an international airport…

DHS Kicks Off GFIRST Cybersecurity Conference

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security kicked off its seventh annual cybersecurity conference this week in Nashville.

The Government Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams conference is hosted by the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team and brings together the top information security professionals and government officials to discuss the latest in cybersecurity news, trends and technologies.

According to…

DHS Launches Intellectual Property Rights Website

To strengthen efforts against intellectual property theft crimes, the Department of Homeland Security launched recently the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center website.

The new website is hosted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a branch of DHS, and includes information, news releases, media, published reports and an electronic form with vital information for reporting property rights violations.

“It’s not…