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Cyber Experts Give Gloomy Diagnosis
Published on 4 Aug, 2010 at 10:37 in Cyber | Viewed 97 times | No Comments
Today’s cyber threats are not preventable and there is currently no way to defend any large-scale environment, said Amit Yoran, CEO of NetWitness Corporation at yesterday’s cyber conference in New York.
Agence France-Presse reported how this bleak forecast comes from the FBI-sponsored conference at Fordham University in a time when the Internet and society are…
Botnet Malware Writer Arrested in Slovenia
Published on 28 Jul, 2010 at 9:10 in Cloud | Viewed 98 times | No Comments
A man believed to a malware author has been arrested in Slovenia. The 23-year-old virus writer, known as Iserdo, is said to be the author of the Mariposa virus, which infected more than 12.7 million computers and was dismantled earlier this year.
Since its discovery, law enforcement organizations in the United States and Europe have been working to close down the operators. Police in Spain arrested three individuals suspected of…
FBI Embedding Cyber Investigators Abroad
Published on 5 Mar, 2010 at 12:39 in Cyber | Viewed 392 times | No Comments
In the growing battle against cyber crime, the FBI is seeking to broaden its reach by embedding cyber investigators in foreign countries. Currently, the FBI has embedded investigators with law enforcement agencies in the Ukraine, the Netherlands and Estonia, according to an article in PCWorld.
Earlier this week, Howard Schmidt, serving as cybersecurity coordinator at the White House,
