ProtectMyID: #FTC issues report on protecting consumer privacy – consumers, encourage companies to adopt best #privacy practices http://t.co/okFDLhCF View full post on Twitter / ProtectMyID View full post on National Cyber Security
Radware selected by two social networking companies for cyber attack protection
Radware announced recent agreements with two U.S.-based social networking companies to deploy Radware's Attack Mitigation System security solution to address expanding network security needs including … View full post on cyber attack – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
15-year-old arrested for hacking 259 companies
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested for hacking into 259 companies during a 90-day spree. In other words, during the last quarter he successfully attacked an average of three websites per day. View full post on cyber crime hacking – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber…
FTC, Cell Companies, Consumers Fighting More Text Spam
Once the scourge of e-mail providers and the Postal Service, spammers have infiltrated the last refuge of spam-free communication: cellphones. In the United States, consumers received roughly 4.5 billion spam texts last year, more than double the 2.2 billion received in 2009, according to Ferris Research, a market research firm…
More companies eyeing SIEM in the cloud
A cloud service can help companies get around some hurdles with SIEM systems. View full post on SearchCloudSecurity: RSS Feed View full post on National Cyber Security
Malware Advancing Faster Than Companies Can Analyze It
IT is worried: More than half of IT leaders say malware sophistication is outpacing their ability to analyze it. A new study conducted by Forrest Anderson Research and commissioned by Norman ASA found that 62 percent of IT pros have this concern, while 58 percent say their biggest worry is…
Internet Companies Prepare for Online Privacy Fight
Emboldened by their victory in quashing online piracy legislation, U.S. Internet companies are gearing up for a battle over whether consumers should be able to restrict efforts to gather personal data. Google Inc, Facebook, Apple Inc and other tech companies have lobbied against congressional and federal agency proposals that would…
FCC urges Internet companies to safeguard Web
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Internet service providers need to work harder to prevent hacks, data theft and other fraud, including contacting customers whose infected computers have been hijacked by organized crime and helping them clean out viruses, the head of the Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski…
Hialeah Police Bust Body Shops, Tow Companies For Fraud
This morning as South Florida headed to work, Hialeah Police were rounding up tow trucks drivers and body shop owners. View full post on social media scam – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
A Valentine’s Day present for SCADA companies: new exploit tools
There's good news for people who love bad news about the security of industrial control systems. At the SCADA Security Scientific Symposium (S4) in Miami Beach in January, there were a host of new security vulnerabilities unearthed in popular programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)…