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Roland Cloutier of ADP Joins National Cyber Security Alliance Board

Roland Cloutier of ADP Joins National Cyber Security Alliance Board

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)

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Parliament Sees UK as Cybersecurity Leader for EU

Parliament Sees UK as Cybersecurity Leader for EU

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)

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Beward of Fake Email Facebook Warns

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)

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UK School Children: NextGen Hackers?

UK School Children: NextGen Hackers?

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)

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Vodaphone Spain Admits Shipping Thousands of Infected Smartphones

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)

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Featured Job- Cybersecurity Systems Engineer with QinetiQ

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

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)

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MIT Keeps System Online During Cyber Attack

MIT Keeps System Online During Cyber Attack

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)

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Lockheed Martin Opens Cyber Intelligence Center

Lockheed Martin Opens Cyber Intelligence Center

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…

If The Hat Is Black...

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)

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