Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans WASHINGTON: Alejandro Mayorkas, a high-ranking Department of Homeland Security official, opened a speech over the summer in Las Vegas before hundreds of hackers with a dare. “I challenge you all to make my phone ring during my remarks,” he said, brandishing…
Lawmakers question cybersecurity after alleged CIA hack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans There are new questions surfacing about the email habits of top government officials after reports that some teenage hackers may have broken into accounts of the heads of the CIA and Homeland Security. The self-proclaimed suspect says he represents a few…
Cybersecurity firm: Chinese hacking on US companies persists
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Chinese hacking attempts on American corporate intellectual property have occurred with regularity over the past three weeks, suggesting that China almost immediately began violating its newly minted cyberagreement with the United States, according to a newly published analysis by a cybersecurity…
Ukrainian Hacker Who Allegedly Tried to Frame Cyber-Security Expert Extradited to US
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A Ukrainian man who allegedly tried to frame cyber-security expert Brian Krebs has been extradited to the United States and is due in Newark federal court today, prosecutors said. Sergey Vovnenko is accused of taking part in an international conspiracy to…
Zero Day Weekly: Uber-Lyft hack war, DHS forced into cybersecurity strategy, ICS nuclear threat
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Welcome to Zero Day’s Week In Security, ZDNet’s roundup of notable security news items for the week ending October 9, 2015. From The Hill: Senate Democrats press T-Mobile on data breach “Three Senate Democrats are seeking answers from credit agency Experian…
Ex-Spies Join Cybersecurity Fight
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans When firewalls fail to thwart cyberattacks, former Israeli spies are coming to the rescue. Their job: Befriend hackers to find out about attacks before they even happen. Bigger, better-known cybersecurity firms, like Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab ZAO and IntelCorp.’s Intel Security Group,…
Could a Smartphone Camera Pierce Your Bank’s Cybersecurity?
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Financial institutions today spend hundreds of millions of dollars and dedicate hundreds of employees to combatting cybercrime. The ultimate insult to these defenses would be to have security breached by a simple picture taken on a smartphone. The idea that this…
State Department Wants To Compile Cybersecurity Playbook
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The State Department, fresh off the heels of a highly publicized cyberintrusion, is picking industry’s brain for tactics to block and perhaps strike back at hackers, according to new contracting documents. State wants to produce a new set of how-to ”playbooks” around cybersecurity ”to clearly guide…
Microsoft Corporation Cybersecurity and Consumer Safety
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Microsoft offers an extensive array of safety and security for their users. The company is also concerned with the security of the Cyber-Centric Cloud for government agencies. Whether one is an individual, business or national consumer, Microsoft Corporation is working hard to…
Japan to train thousands on cyber-security ahead of 2020 Olympics
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans According to local newspaper Nikkei, Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has put forward a set of cyber-security proposals in relations to the Games, and intends to request around 20 billion yen (£103 million) in government funding over the four…