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Roland Cloutier of ADP Joins National Cyber Security Alliance Board
Written on 19 Mar, 2010 at 11:02 in Cyber Policy | viewed 125 views times | 0 Comments
Roland Cloutier, vice president and chief security officer at Automatic Data Processing, Inc., has joined the board of the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA). The NCSA is a non-profit that looks to enhance public-private partnerships in the field... (Continue reading)
Parliament Sees UK as Cybersecurity Leader for EU
Written on 19 Mar, 2010 at 10:45 in Cyber Policy | viewed 108 views times | 0 Comments
The House of Lords European Union Committee has released a report which examines the UK’s cyber capabilities and the efforts in the EU. The Committee determined that the UK is “reasonably well placed” to handle cyber issues. The report praised the... (Continue reading)
Beward of Fake Email Facebook Warns
Written on 19 Mar, 2010 at 10:16 in Cyber Incidents | viewed 185 views times | 0 Comments
Social networking giant Facebook has issued a warning to users regarding a new scam that tricks users into downloading a Trojan onto their computers. The Trojan enables the cyber criminal to steal a user’s password for the social networking site. Once... (Continue reading)
UK School Children: NextGen Hackers?
Written on 19 Mar, 2010 at 9:49 in Cyber Policy | viewed 85 views times | 0 Comments
One in four children of school age in the UK have admitted to attempting to hack into an email or Facebook account, according to a recent survey. The poll, which surveyed 1,000 students in London and 150 from Cumbria, found... (Continue reading)
Vodaphone Spain Admits Shipping Thousands of Infected Smartphones
Written on 19 Mar, 2010 at 8:34 in Cyber Incidents | viewed 50 views times | 0 Comments
Earlier this week, The New New Internet reported that Vodaphone Spain has shipped two pre-infected smartphones to security researchers at Panda Security and S21Sec. After each incident, a Vodaphone Spain spokesman claimed that the incidents were isolated. Late yesterday, however, the... (Continue reading)
Featured Job- Cybersecurity Systems Engineer with QinetiQ
Written on 19 Mar, 2010 at 7:55 in Featured Jobs | viewed 32 views times | 0 Comments
Job Description Responsibilities: Participate as a member of the Cyber Security Team with specific responsibilities in the system development life-cycle including, system architecture development, system development, system integration, interaction with technical partners, tailoring the offering for specific customer... (Continue reading)
Vodafone Spain Provides Botnet Smartphone
Written on 18 Mar, 2010 at 10:08 in Cyber Incidents | viewed 227 views times | 1 Comment
Vodafone Spain has provided a pre-infected smartphone to a researcher at S21Sec, one week after a similar incident in which the company provided an infected smartphone to a researcher at Panda Security. The smartphones are infected with the Mariposa botnet... (Continue reading)
MIT Keeps System Online During Cyber Attack
Written on 18 Mar, 2010 at 9:14 in Cyber Policy | viewed 540 views times | 2 Comments
Previously, when a system was under cyber attack, the only solution to mitigate the threat was to take the server offline. However, there may now be another option. MIT researchers have developed a system that allows servers and computers to... (Continue reading)
Lockheed Martin Opens Cyber Intelligence Center
Written on 18 Mar, 2010 at 8:55 in Cyber Policy | viewed 208 views times | 1 Comment
Lockheed Martin has opened a second Security Intelligence Center (SIC) in Denver. The new facility will be operated by Lockheed Martin Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT), who also operates a center in Gaithersburg, Md. The two facilities serve as a “focal... (Continue reading)
If The Hat Is Black…
Written on 18 Mar, 2010 at 7:16 in Cyber Policy | viewed 308 views times | 0 Comments
Much of cybersecurity is based on thinking like criminals. Security consultants, pen testers and software experts make our computers safer based on their expectations of what a hacker will do. One security expert, Robert Hansen, CEO of SecTheory, is bridging... (Continue reading)
