Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The U.S. Air Force is learning a tough lesson when it comes to hardening its systems against cyberintrusions, primarily that the cybersecurity threat landscape changes faster than the military’s budgeting process. The Air Force’s Operational Control Segment (OCX) program, which oversees…
Maryland State Agencies Threatened by Cyberattacks
According to incident reports from the Department of Information Technology, Maryland government entities have suffered at least six cyber attacks since the beginning of 2013. The reports, obtained by Capital News Service through a Maryland Public Information Act request, reveal that data-hungry hackers and scammers are targeting state agencies which…
Dry ice ‘bombs’ threatened Los Angeles International Airport
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Fraud Story On Internet Dating When I threatened to expose him/Her
Online Chatting – internet fraud laws on dating web sights ——————————————————————————– Expert: Vena McGrath – 4/27/2009 Question I went out with a man for about one year. His profile said he was a widow. He referred to her as his dead wife. Read More…. View full post on
Man who threatened Amtrak’s DC facilities sentenced
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection Image Caption: New York Ave. bridge The man who phoned in bomb threats to Amtrak’s communications center last November and January was sentenced to 20 months in prison by a federal judge. Michael Jerome Dennis, 27, received the sentence after pleading guilty in August…
Man who threatened Amtrak D.C. facilities sentenced
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection Image Caption: New York Ave. bridge The man who phoned in bomb threats to Amtrak’s communications center last November and January was sentenced to 20 months in prison by a federal judge. Michael Jerome Dennis, 27, received the sentence after pleading guilty in August…
Readers Guide: World computer systems are threatened by a virus in ‘Worm‘
Mark Bowden, the author of “Black Hawk Down,” delves into an entirely different kind of war in his latest book. It’s a war probably very few people knew was being fought. The Conficker malware surfaced in late 2008, rapidly infecting as many as 12 million computers in 200 countries. Even…
Enterprise security threatened by mobile and virtualisation
Increased use of mobile devices, especially smartphones, in addition to the transition to virtualisation, are key factors weighing on enterprises trying to sort out security strategy and budgets, according to a survey of 688 information and security managers. According to the authoritative Ponemon Institute in the “State of the Endpoint”…
