For Data breaches, US federal judge took a very positive step and affirmed the Federal Trade Commission’s authority to file lawsuits against companies for failing to take “reasonable and appropriate” data security measures, rejecting a claim that the agency lacks that power. District Judge Esther Salas of the US District…
Spy scandal weighs on U.S. tech firms in China, Cisco takes hit
U.S. technology companies including Cisco Systems Inc, International Business Machines Corp and Microsoft Corp may face new challenges selling their goods and services in China as fallout from the U.S. spying scandal starts to take a toll. Cisco shares tumbled 11 percent on Thursday, a day after it warned…
TSA wants to identify highly-capable firms to offered ‘specialized security training’
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Some Dutch phone firms break law on internet traffic info storage
A quarter of Dutch telecoms firms are using phone and email details they are required to store by law for marketing purposes, Nos television reports on Monday. Nor are some of them destroying the information a year after it was collected, as they are supposed to do, Nos said….
Chinese telecom firms present security threat, says Congressional report
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection Image Caption: Huawei Chinese telecommunications gear makers Huawei and ZTE pose a threat to U.S. national security and those doing business with the companies should find another vendor, said a report from a House intelligence committee investigating the companies. The sharply critical report from…
ASIS 2012: Dr Bob Banerjee, Senior Director, Consultants and A&E Firms, Security Group, Nice
perimeter_protection Dr. Banerjee points out that the typical command and control center of an airport, seaport, mass transit hub, utility or city center is a place with input from a number of different silos. The silos must be joined together, he says, so that management can first achieve situational awareness,…
US firms over-reliant on firewalls to defend against DDoS attacks
More than half of US businesses still rely on conventional firewalls or intrusion prevention systems to shield them from the scourge of DDoS attacks, a survey by services firm Neustar has found. View full post on Techworld.com security View full post on National Cyber Security » Computer Hacking
Firms Crackdown On Facebook Use
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ESET Tops Worldwide Growth List for Consumer Security in Leading Industry Analyst Firm’s Security Software Market …
SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– ESET today announced that for the second straight year, Gartner has ranked the company as the security software vendor with the largest worldwide growth in consumer security. According to Gartner’s “Market Share: Security Software, Worldwide, 2011” report, which was released in late March 2012, ESET grew by…
US recruits Silicon Valley tech firms to counter cyberattacks
Warning that the U.S. is threatened by potentially devastating cyberattacks, the nation’s national security community is recruiting the San Francisco Bay Area’s private sector to counter the assaults. View full post on cyber security alerts – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security