Last week, the story broke that a water pump at a Springfield, Ill. utility had failed and hackers were to blame. Now, the Department of Homeland Security is saying that no such thing happened. The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team released a report outlining the steps taken in assessing the situation. The group [...]
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A water pump at a Springfield, Ill. utility failed Nov. 8. Usually this would be considered a technical difficulty, but this failure has raised eyebrows of the federal government. Joe Weiss, a cybersecurity expert, disclosed the incident on his blog Thursday and pointed the finger at foreign cyber attackers. Now the U.S. Department of Homeland [...]
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Federal employees who bring their own iPhones and Android devices to work may also bring a growing risk of hackers creating chaos, according to a forecast from M86 Security Labs. The network security firm is expected to release its annual prediction of the top security threats to both businesses and government, according to a report [...]
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Sony Appoints Former US DHS Official Philip Reitinger to Head Cybersecurity
September 6, 2011 No CommentSony named Philip Reitinger, a former top U.S. Department of Homeland Security official, to lead its cybersecurity efforts months after a massive hacking attack. Reitinger has previously held security roles with U.S. National Cyber Security Center, Departments of Defense and Justice, and Microsoft. He has been appointed Sony’s chief information officer and senior vice president acting [...]
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Security researchers have located an infected email suspected to be the culprit of the RSA SecurID hack in March. In March, unknown attackers tricked EMC staff with a legitimate-looking hiring message that contained a “backdoor,” allowing the culprits to invisibly lurk inside the company’s computer systems until they found the SecureID network login information. Allegedly the [...]
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McAfee Q2 2011 Threats Report Shows Significant Growth for Malware on Mobile Platforms
August 25, 2011 1 CommentMcAfee released the McAfee “Threats Report: Second Quarter 2011” showing a 76 percent jump of malware directed toward Android devices making it the most attacked mobile operating system. With the vast amounts of personal and business data now found on user’s mobile phones, mobile malware is steadily increasing, often mimicking the same code as PC-based [...]
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Verizon is to hold a webinar this Thursday (Aug. 25) entitled “Strengthen Your Security Infrastructure with Universal Identify Services,” discussing the continued need for strong second-factor authentication and available options. According to the Verizon “2011 Data Breach Investigation Report,” authentication and credential exploits are responsible for almost half of data breaches involving hacking. With an [...]
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