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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A federal legislation introduced this week in the Senate would require businesses to report data breaches that threaten consumer privacy, and those who conceal them could face harsh penalties. Introduced by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act calls for national standards for data breach notification. Under the act, companies that [...]
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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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A 26-year-old U.K. man was arrested last week after being accused of trying to hack into Facebook, IDG News reports. Few details are known about the alleged incident, but Facebook said last Friday no user information had been stolen and it is working with the FBI and Scotland Yard in an investigation. A spokesman for [...]
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Although cybersecurity has increased in the United States over the past 12 months, a new survey shows that IT security professionals believe the government is not doing an adequate job of keeping its private information secure. The 2011 Information Security and Legislation Study by nCircle, a provider of automated security and compliance auditing solutions, polled [...]
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The Commerce Department today released a report that proposes voluntary codes of conduct to bolster the cybersecurity of companies that increasingly rely on the Internet to do business, but are not part of the critical infrastructure sector. The report, Cybersecurity, Innovation and the Internet Economy, focuses on the “Internet and Information Innovation Sector” (I3S), which [...]
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Salient Federal Solutions, a provider of federal IT and engineering solutions, today took part in World IPv6 Day to call attention to the need to transition government networks to Internet Protocol version 6. During the event, Salient released free web-training videos to highlight the security issues and risks associated with the switch from IPv4. “At [...]
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Wired magazine calls it the “nerdiest holiday ever” and the “biggest geek party since Pi Day,” but around the world, some are taking World IPv6 Day very seriously. “Granted it isn’t up there with the World Cup final, or the opening ceremony of the Olympics, but today many of the key players, including Google, Facebook, [...]
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Report: Inconsistency in Creating Cybersecurity Strategies Common among EU Nations
June 8, 2011 1 CommentA new report on network and information security finds that European nations are highly varied in how prepared they are for dealing with cyber crime, network attacks and network resilience, according to the European Network and Information Security Agency. ENISA’s “Country Reports” features an overview and detailed reports on 30 European nations, with information that [...]
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A Russian self-proclaimed “freelance researcher” claims to have reverse-engineered part of Skype’s code to make the program an open source and then released the code online, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The hacker, Efim Bushmanov, said in addition to making Skype open source, he wants to find “friends who can spend many hours” to finish [...]
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