The world’s richest countries agree that hacking industrial targets for profit isn’t right

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The world’s richest nations have agreed for the first time to abstain, in principle, from hacking for commercial gain. At the G20 conference attended by countries including the US, China, Russia, France, and Germany, world leaders agreed that “no country should conduct or support [computer]-enabled theft of […]

The NSA and EFF Agree on One Thing: How the NSA’s Internet Spying Works

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Much has changed in the nearly ten years since we launched our first lawsuit challenging the NSA’s illegal surveillance of millions of Americans’ Internet communications. Over time, the defendants in the cases have changed; the legal “authority” the government has invoked to justify the program has […]

T-Mobile and AT&T agree to swap spectrum

AT&T and T-Mobile have never had a friendly relationship really. But, after AT&T tried (and failed) to buy T-Mobile, the companies have had a history of swapping spectrum to create more contiguous spectrum blocks and to fill in gaps in T-Mobile’s coverage. Well, the two companies are at it again with a new agreement to […]

US ISPs Agree to FCC-Recommended Security Measures (March 22, 2012)

Eight US Internet service providers (ISPs) in the US, including the four largest in the country, have committed to implementing cyber security measures recommended by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) advisory board……. View full post on SANS NewsBites View full post on National Cyber Security

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Smartphone app stores should agree on security, EU Agency says

Smartphone platforms and the app stores that serve them should conform to an agreed, industry-wide set of security principles in order to safeguard their users, a new report from EU cybersecurity agency ENISA has argued. Most of the ENISA’s (European Network and Information Security Agency) ‘five lines of defence’ in its paper Appstore Security will […]