Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans TalkTalk has been fined a record £400,000 for security failings over a cyber attack which allowed customer data to be accessed ‘with ease’, a watchdog announced. The Information Commissioner’s Office said the attack last October could have been prevented if The…
Executives see security of cloud data as more important than ease of use
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Cloud data security has been recognised as the most important focus area to improve business competitiveness in a recent survey of executives that also ranked internal user experience second. Conducted amongst 175 American and European executives, the Unisys/IDG research found The…
The frightening ease of voicemail hacking
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans “Hi, Dell. This is Andrew at EFF. We got disconnected. Oh, I think you might be calling me.” I was playing phone tag with Andrew Crocker, a law fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, during an ongoing conversation aboutnational security letters….
Hacker busted for cracking private, government networks did so with ease
MANCHESTER, Ky. (AP) — Cocaine dealers, bank robbers and carjackers converge at Manchester Federal Prison in rural Kentucky — and then there is Jeremy Hammond, a tousle-haired and talented hacker whose nimble fingers have clicked and tapped their way into […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
IT security and business alignment: It’s time to ease off IT security leaders
There probably isn’t a more consistent theme we write about than the alignment IT security with business goals: Understand your business first, then build your security empire to support and protect the business; lofty goals and heady stuff for sure. I’m as guilty as anyone of writing stuff centered on…
Pentagon interest in cybersecurity may ease contractors’ pain from cuts
Plans by the Pentagon to invest more in cybersecurity and space-based capabilities may ease the blow for defense contractors such as Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin that are facing cuts in other programs. Read full article >> View full post on china cyber wars – Yahoo! News Search Results View…