Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans PETAH TIKVA, Israel (CNN) – The legal fight between Apple and the FBI over a terrorist’s smartphone has put another company, an Israeli tech firm, into the spotlight. Four months after the San Bernardino terrorist attack, the iPhone 5c of one…
Cyber security firm owner creates Hacker Academy
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Steve Barone, the owner and CEO of CBI, got his start in business selling Atari and Commodore home computers in an East Detroit shop in the 1980s. The native Detroiter dropped out of Wayne State University, but found a job he enjoyed and paid…
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…
UPDATE 1-U.S. SEC fines advisory firm for shoddy controls after cyber attack traced to China
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A St. Louis-based investment advisory firm will pay $75,000 to settle civil charges alleging it failed “entirely” to protect its clients from a July 2013 cyber attack that was later traced to China, U.S. regulators said on Tuesday. The Securities and…
BlackBerry spends $425 million to acquire mobile security firm Good Technology
BlackBerry, already the leader in smartphone security, has purchased mobile security firm Good Technologies for $425 million. The acquisition will allow BlackBerry to improve upon its mobile device management capabilities, good news for CIOs and IT departments in charge of managing a fleet of handsets that include iOS, Android and…
FBI Cyber Cop Joins Security-Software Firm
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Leo Taddeo, a top cyber cop at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is leaving after more than two decades in government to become the chief security officer at security-software company Cryptzone. Mr. Taddeo, 49, is stepping down as the head of…
How to find the best cyber security insurance for your firm
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A robust cyber security insurance policy can be tricky to procure, even for the most meticulous wealth management firms. Interest in cyber insurance has surged over the past year following a number of high-profile hackings, including one announced earlier this month involving…
Told U.S. is hacker, firm probes
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Powered by Max Banner Ads BERLIN — Gemalto, the largest maker of mobile-phone cards, said it’s investigating a report that U.S. and U.K. spies allegedly hacked into its computer network to steal the keys used to encrypt conversations, messages and data traffic….
Minority office report: Warning over software now being used by bosses that predicts if you’re going to steal from the firm, have a nervous breakdown and even have an office affair
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Powered by Max Banner Ads It sounds like something straight from a science-fiction film – but technology firms in Japan are using software to predict whether a rogue employee could steal from the company or even have an office affair. Fulfilling the…
Spotsylvania tech firm works on Memex project featured on ’60 Minutes’
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Powered by Max Banner Ads IST Research’s 24 employees have fairly typical backgrounds for the Fredericksburg region. They’re government contractors, retired military personnel and recent college graduates. But their work creating technology for the developing world and mining the Internet for data…