Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The new adviser to the department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on cyber security matters, Alastair MacGibbon, has criticised the government’s strategy, saying that elements of it will fail. The former children’s e-safety commissioner said one of his main tasks will…
EU could demand that Web firms decrypt emails: adviser
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans (Reuters) – The European Union should consider forcing Internet firms to help security services tap into coded emails and calls as part of a new strategy to combat militant attacks, the EU counter-terrorism coordinator says. The controversial proposal appears in a…
Morgan Stanley fires financial adviser after data theft
Morgan Stanley fired a New York financial adviser accused of stealing account information from 350,000 clients, a person familiar with the matter said. Galen Marsh, a financial adviser who worked at a New York branch of Morgan Stanley’s wealth management […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
Twitter account of Turkish PM’s top adviser hacked, messages left against Berkin Elvan’s death
A group of Turkish hackers have hacked the official Twitter account of Mustafa Varank, who is a top political advisers of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Hackers defaced the Twitter account, posting messages and images in solidarity with the protests in memory of Berkin Elvan, a 15-year-old teenager who died…
FTC Names Privacy Advocate and Law Professor Paul Ohm Senior Adviser (May 21, 2012)
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has named Paul Ohm as a senior policy adviser for consumer protection and competition issues affecting the Internet and mobile services……. View full post on SANS NewsBites View full post on National Cyber Security
Don’t trust SSL certificates, says US cybersecurity adviser
Former White House cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke views hacktivist group Anonymous “more positively than most people”, and insists that digital SSL certificates cannot be trusted. The 60-year-old, who served for 19 years in the Pentagon, intelligence community and State Department, was a special adviser to President George W Bush on…