Hacker attacks drive a boom in cybersecurity

A devastating data breach 10 months ago exposed the details of an estimated 40m customers of the American retailer Target. Heads soon rolled: chief information officer Beth Jacob and chief executive Gregg Steinhafel both left in the months after the […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…

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Crime Ring Revelation Reveals Cybersecurity Conflict of Interest

A small cybersecurity firm claimed this summer to have uncovered a scam by Russian Internet thieves to amass a mountain of stolen information from 420,000 Web and FTP sites. The hacker network, dubbed “CyberVor,” possessed 1.2 billion unique credentials—a user […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…

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Inside Canadian cyber-security agency

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans When Canadian intelligence officials speak about today’s spying, they can reveal great ambition. Sometimes they speak of wanting to “master the Internet” or even “target the world” before switching to less evocative terms, such as “computer network operations” or CNO. […]…

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Benchmark cybersecurity analytics service delivers new vulnerability management insights

Top Priority Sector:  cyber_security Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology, in partnership with Tripwire, a provider of risk-based security and compliance management solutions, has announced that the top 25 percent of vulnerability management contributors scanned their networks nearly continuously and had an average aggregate host risk score of…

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Symantec launches initiative to boost cybersecurity workforce

Top Priority Sector:  cyber_security Mountain View, CA-based Symantec has announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind program, the Symantec Cyber Career Connection (SC3), to address the global workforce gap in cybersecurity and provide new career opportunities for young adults who may not be college-bound. Read More…. For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www….

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Hackers Abridge Them With New Cybersecurity Skills

At the University of Massachusetts, Boston hackers sharpened their cyber security skills by participating in a competition hosted by a Maryland-based nonprofit that offers such courses and abridges students to fit in the rapidly expanding cyber space. The contestants also heard from the FBI as a part of a digital…

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