Google to Team with NSA

Search engine giant Google and the largest electronic surveillance intelligence agency in the world, the National Security Agency, are teaming up to increase cybersecurity.

Google is looking to finalize an agreement with NSA, which would allow the agency to analyze the Aurora attacks that took place in December, according to The Washington Post.

Once NSA analyzes the attacks, it will…

Be Wary of Web Surfing, Infection is All Around You

The use of infected websites is becoming increasingly popular, according to security researchers.

A post on the Kaspersky Lab’s ‘Threat Post’ claims that one out of every 150 legitimate websites is infected with malware.

Researchers with the Kaspersky Lab have been monitoring around 300,000 legitimate websites over the past few years. Back in 2006, the websites analyzed saw one infected website for every 20,000. However, in 2009, the ratio is…

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Melissa Hathaway to Serve as Security Adviser to Cisco

The New New Internet has learned Melissa Hathaway, president of Hathaway Global Strategies and the former acting senior director for cyberspace within the National Security Council, will join Cisco as a senior adviser to the security team.

Hathaway previously led the 60-Day Cyberspace Policy review for the Obama administration.

On Thursday, February 4 at 2 p.m. PST, Cisco will…

Dennis Blair: Critical Infrastructure is Severely Threatened

Yesterday, in testimony on the Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, DNI Dennis Blair discussed the issue of threats from cyberspace in the beginning of his testimony.

Blair said neither the public or private sector can protect U.S. critical infrastructure alone.

“I am here today to stress that, acting independently, neither the…

The Chinese Are Coming: Cyber Espionage Targets Government Contractors

U.S. government networks are consistently probed for vulnerabilities by hackers and foreign intelligence agencies. The difficulty of attribution combined with the ease of access and decreased physical risk makes cyber espionage a favorite tool of more advanced intelligence services.

Foreign governments seek information for U.S.-based networks for a variety of reasons, including intelligence gathering and economic espionage, enabling domestic industries to copy U.S. products. This pursuit of intellectual property alongside…

iPhone Vulnerable to Exploitation

The advent of smartphones has helped to propel Internet use across the globe. In countries in the developing world, most users access the Internet exclusively via cellphones. However, these smartphones bring forth a host of new opportunities for cyber criminals to exploit.

The iPhone, Apple’s smartphone, has a number of vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely. Of particular concern is the way it handles digital certificates (which verify user legitimacy),…

How to Fail at Online Banking

The majority of consumers who use Internet banking reuse the same login credentials on other websites, according to The Register.

A survey conducted by Trusteer, an online security firm, found 73 percent of consumers reuse their banking login passwords on at least one other website that is less sensitive. Almost half reuse their password and username as login credentials for another website.

This reuse of login credentials makes cyber crime easy….

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My Computer is More Secure than Yours, or Not- the PC vs. Mac Security Debate

With cyber exploits filling the news recently and more and more organizations experiencing cyber attacks, we are often left with the question of which computer platform provides better security? A survey conducted by ESET and released in November found the majority of computer users believe Macs are more secure than PCs.

However, the survey found…