NetWitness CEO Amit Yoran: ‘There is a Lack of Visibility’

During the RSA Conference, Amit Yoran, CEO of NetWitness Corp., discussed the challenges in dealing with the issue of cyber warfare, along with Scott Borg, director and CEO of the Cyber Consequences Unit.

Yoran discussed some of the challenges facing cyber defenders in the coming years, particularly the difficulty in seeing the threats…

FBI Embedding Cyber Investigators Abroad

In the growing battle against cyber crime, the FBI is seeking to broaden its reach by embedding cyber investigators in foreign countries. Currently, the FBI has embedded investigators with law enforcement agencies in the Ukraine, the Netherlands and Estonia, according to an article in PCWorld.

Earlier this week, Howard Schmidt, serving as cybersecurity coordinator at the White House,

More Information on Aurora Attacks

Earlier this year, Google announced that it, along with a number of other companies, was the target of a cyber attack. Since that time, law enforcement and private companies have been working to unravel more details about the attack.

Last month, the attack was partially traced to two schools in China and researchers believe they may have found the code developer who wrote the code used in…

Threat of Cyber Terrorism ‘Real and Expanding’ says FBI Director Mueller

The threat from terrorists using cyberspace as another attack vector is growing, according to FBI Director Robert Mueller. “The FBI, with our partners in the intelligence community, believe the cyber terrorism threat is real, and it is rapidly expanding,” he said.

Mueller stated that, while large scale cyber attacks by terrorists which destroy a network  have…

Enrique Salem says Symantec Working with Government to Track Cyber Attacks

Symantec Corporation is helping the government in its investigation of the Aurora attacks against search engine giant Google, CEO Enrique Salem said earlier this week. Symantec monitors millions of computers worldwide and has significant data on malware infections and other cyber attacks which they sometimes sell to federal agencies and companies.

During an interview with Business Week, Salem said…

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Experts at RSA Conference Call for Greater International Collaboration

During the RSA conference in California this week, international cyber experts have called for increased international cooperation of cybersecurity issues. Information sharing is one of the principle methods that can be used to combat cyber attacks, as was recently demonstrated in the dismantling of the Mariposa botnet.

“It is pure nonsense to attempt to handle cyberscecurity only at…

Authorities Smash Botnet Infecting Over Half of Fortune 1000

Earlier this year, Microsoft demonstrated one way to take out a botnet. Earlier this week, Spanish authorities provided another option, namely arresting the botnet handlers. Spanish authorities arrested 3 cyber criminals who were behind the Mariposa botnet, which was one of the largest botnets in the world and, according to investigators, infected PCs in over 40 banks and over half of the Fortune 1,000 companies.

In order to find…

Using ‘The Art of War’ to Combat Cyber Crime

IT Governance has published a book on applying some of the principles in Sun Tzu’s The Art of War to the fight against cyber criminals. The new book, Assessing Information Security: Strategies, Tactics, Logic and Framework, claims that the principles that apply in warfare can also be brought to bear in the information security context.

The authors,…

Australia Seeks to Hire Cybersecurity Professionals

Cyber experts in the United States consistently bemoan the dearth of skilled cyber professionals to fill the ranks as ‘cyber warriors.’ The Department of Homeland Security has advertised positions for cyber professionals via their website since the end of last year.

The Australian government is experiencing a similar shortage of skilled cyber professionals. The Australian Department of Defence has advertised…