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The 2010 Stuxnet virus attack on a uranium processing plant in Iran has provoked the country into building up its cyber capabilities, the U.S. Air Force‘s head of cyber operations said Thursday. Reuters reports Gen. William Shelton, who also leads Air Force Space Command, told reporters Iran will become a force in the cyber realm [...]
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AT&T, CenturyLink and Lockheed Martin have signed up for a program run by the departments of Defense and Homeland Security aimed at sharing information on cyber threats, Bloomberg reports. The Defense Industrial Base Enhanced Cybersecurity Services program was created to facilitate exchange of information between the government, defense contractors and Internet service providers, according to [...]
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A Symantec cryptographic messaging system has received approval from the U.S. and Canadian governments for use at national agencies in both countries. The company said the National Insitute of Standards and Technology and the Communications Security Establishment Canada developed FIPS 140-2 to certify cryptographic modules for protecting sensitive information. Symantec Messaging Gateway’s control center cryptographic [...]
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DLT Solutions is alerting all Internet users to a type of online threat that uses Java, Flash and PDF content to infect computers with a Trojan Horse. Blackhole exploit kits represent 28 percent of all Web threats, the company said, and the U.S. hosts close to a third of all blackhole kits worldwide. DLT calls blackhole [...]
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Facebook helped the FBI bring down an international criminal enterprise that infected nearly 11 million computers with malicious software, accounting for more than $850 million in losses. Reuters reports the social networking site helped identify the responsible parties and provide security systems for detecting infected accounts. Facebook also provided tools for removing the threats, Edwin [...]
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Booz Allen Hamilton released a report today about the cyber risks the financial services industry could encounter in 2013. Mike McConnell, Booz Allen vice chairman and former director of National Intelligence, said chief information security officers must perform “self-evaluations and industry-wide conversations” for a successful cyber defense. “There are many cyber trends – including the [...]
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A team of computer scientists led by Rockwell Collins and also featuring Boeing will develop cyber attack protection software for unmanned vehicles for the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency. NICTA, a Sydney-based information and communications technology research center backed by the Australian government, is also a member of the team, according to a Thursday release. [...]
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The country’s electrical grid is more vulnerable to damages from cyber terrorists than natural disasters like hurricanes, the National Research Council says in a new report. According to Reuters, the non-partisan research group said large parts of the country can experience blackouts for weeks or months from cyber attacks. The report was originally completed in [...]
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Lockheed Martin is soliciting support from suppliers to improve the company’s cybersecurity protection system in the wake of growth of advanced persistent threats in both Lockheed’s and suppliers’ networks, Reuters reports. Chandra McMahon, vice president and chief information security officer, told Reuters said 20 percent of attacks against the company’s cyber networks fall in the [...]
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Dell SecureWorks has launched a new set of threat intelligence services for organizations to identify cyber threats and defend infrastructure and data against those threats, the company announced Thursday. The Targeted Threat Intelligence Services portfolio is also designed to address attacks against executives, according to the release. “In Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)/Targeted attacks, hackers create [...]
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