Cybersecurity Leaders Release Findings on Advanced Persistent Threats

RSA and TechAmerica release findings after Washington, D.C. summit on Advanced Persistent Threats from top cybersecurity leadership in government, defense industrial base, financial services, critical infrastructure and technology.

The findings are derived from a forum of more than 100 of the world’s top cybersecurity leaders from government and the private sector. Participants in the APT Summit shared…

Researchers Unearth File that Triggered RSA SecurID Breach

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 hacker could not successfully break into the desired databases without access to the RSA…

DHS Test Shows Humans are Weakest Link in Cybersecurity

In a test to evaluate how easy it would be for hackers to social-engineer employees and gain access to computer systems, the Department of Homeland Security found the human factor to be the weakest link in cybersecurity, Bloomberg reports.

DHS staff secretly dropped computer discs and USB…

McAfee CSO Predicts New Cold War in Cyber Domain, ‘Hackers for Hire’

Although the Cold War between the United States and Russia ended two decades ago, a former counterintelligence specialist says a new conflict between the United States and China together with North Korea has emerged in cyberspace.

McAfee Chief Security Officer Brett Wahlin, an ex-NATO counterintelligence agent, told Computerworld Australia the

Lockheed Martin Battles ‘Tenacious’ Cyber Attack

One of the nation’s largest defense contractors, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) this weekend announced its information systems network had been struck by a “significant and tenacious attack,” something experts say is just the tip of the iceberg of security issues in the web domain affecting both government and industry.

The Bethesda, Md.-headquartered firm said…

EMC Acquires NetWitness

IT company EMC today announced its acquisition of NetWitness, a security analysis corporation based in Reston, Va.

NetWitness will become part of RSA, a security division of EMC. Combining the two enterprises will give security teams a deeper insight into the security outline of their organizations.

NetWitness provides security teams the resources…

Cyber Commander Sees DoD Cloud Shift

While U.S. Cyber Command’s Keith Alexander testified before Congress and advocated the Defense Department’s move to cloud computing, three companies announced a strategic alliance to address the security concerns that have impeded the progress of the commander’s proposal, C4ISR Journal reported.

Alexander, who also heads the National Security Agency, told a House…

Lynn Talks Pentagon’s Cyber Plan at RSA Conference

Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III is meeting with industry leaders today in San Francisco to discuss best practices in cybersecurity and to deliver a keynote on Pentagon’s cyber strategy at the RSA Conference.

Lynn will describe defense implications of cyber threats and the Defense Department’s strategy to…

Staying Anonymous in a Time of Surveillance

From Googling to emailing to social networking, every day millions of Americans unknowingly leave behind digital breadcrumbs while surfing the web, sometimes at the risk of compromising their anonymity. But while there is technology available to stay anonymous in a time of surveillance, experts say policies and legislation won’t protect web users from privacy invasion or from being attacked in cyberspace.

As…

RSA Conference Yields Expert Advice

Last week, RSA held its annual conference out in San Francisco, CA. The conference brought together cyber experts from around the world, along with notable speakers like DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, FBI Director Robert Mueller and Howard Schmidt, the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator.

The topics discussed range from cloud computing to…