EU countries have agreed on harsher punishments against hackers who launch cyber attacks similar to those seen in recent weeks against the French government, European institutions and Citigroup, Reuters reports. Under the new rules, hackers would face a sentence of at least five years if found guilty of causing serious damage to IT systems. Attackers [...]
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Spanish police today arrested three suspected members of Anonymous on charges of cyber attacking targets including Sony, governments, businesses and financial institutions, Reuters reports. The suspects had been involved in the recent denial-of-service attack on Sony’s PlayStation online gaming store, as well as other cyber attacks on Spanish banks and Italian energy group Enel, the [...]
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The FBI plans to intensify its attention on battling cyber crime as the agency wrestles with cyber attacks at companies such as Google and Sony, according to Bloomberg. “We will increasingly put emphasis on addressing cyber threats in all of their variations,” FBI Director Robert S. Mueller said today at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing [...]
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What is the biggest threat facing Austria these days? Cyber attacks. According to an Austrian magazine report, the country’s defense department is refocusing its defense efforts on protecting the country from cyber threats. The initial threat of a military attack is no longer apparent. In the 21st century, a solid IT infrastructure will help prevent [...]
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A new bill aiming at raising greater public awareness on cybersecurity has been introduced to the U.S. Senate by Sen. Jon Kyl and Sheldon Whitehouse. Cyberattacks are estimated to grow and are known to produce disastrous results when sensitive information is stolen. These attacks have a huge negative impact on the country’s economy and threaten [...]
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A recent global survey by Cyber-Ark Global Solutions found that 57 percent of global C-level executives agree external threats will become a greater security risk than insider threats in the next couple of years. But, the fifth annual “Trust, Security and Passwords” survey also found that one in five C-level execs admitted that cases of [...]
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Assistant director for the cyber division of the FBI, Gordon Snow, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on crime and terrorism this week to talk about how the bureau is responding to the ongoing threat of cyber crime terrorism. Snow discussed the overall cyber threat and said he couldn’t overstate the potential impact the [...]
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Is an eye for an eye in cyberspace a smart policy for responding to online attacks? At the Black Hat DC conference last week, cybersecurity professionals debated the finer points of whether and how organizations should respond to online sabotage with counterattacks of their own, according to a PCWorld.com report. But the practice of cyber [...]
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Although military cyber weaponry will become customary this century, it will unlikely prevent attacks by hacktivists and criminal gangs, and could easily be used for state-sponsored cyber attacks instead, according to study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The British authors of the study, which was released Monday, also warns that “lurid language” [...]
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