Is CISPA the new SOPA? This article decodes the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, the scariest threat to Internet freedom and privacy currently before the U.S. Congress. View full post on cyber pirate – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
The FBI Tells Us How They’re Handling America’s Newest Threat — Cyber Terrorism
Terrorism, especially cyberterrorism, is not going to disappear anytime soon. That was made clear fairly early during the opening remarks by two FBI officials at the Government Security Conference earlier this week. View full post on homeland cyber – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Flashback the largest Mac malware threat yet, experts say
(Credit: Intego) Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you’ve probably heard about Flashback, a piece of malware targeting users of Apple’s Mac OS X that’s now estimated to be quietly running on more than 600,000 machines around the world. That number, which came from Russian…
The Evolution of Malware and the Threat Landscape – a Ten Year Review
Body: At the RSA Conference in San Francisco (CA, USA) this month, Microsoft released a new special edition Security Intelligence Report (SIR) called “The evolution of malware and the threat landscape – a ten year review.” This special edition of the SIR contains a look back at how the threat…
AhnLab Warns of Rising SpyEye Malicious Code Threat in US
AhnLab, Inc. (www.ahnlab.com), a leading provider of integrated security solutions, today announced that its research has identified a significant majority of the domains and hosts for the SpyEye Banking Trojan are in the US. The malicious code has gained attention as of late for the threat it poses to online…
Online hacker group Anonymous a threat to us all, Toews tells MPs
But Public Safety Minister offers no ideas on how to guard parliamentarians against such an amorphous menace View full post on anonymous hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Total Defense 2011 Threat Report: An Open Door to Malware
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Total Defense, Inc. today announced the findings of its 2011 Internet Security Threat Intelligence Report, which indicates Android’s rise in market share was only surpassed by the amount of malware targeted at Android devices. In total, over 25 times more Android Malware was identified in 2011….
‘Hacktivists’ pose biggest data breach threat, study finds
A tiny but motivated band of ‘hacktivists’ are supplanting professional criminals as the biggest single data breach threat to large enterprises, an analysis of hundreds of confirmed incident reports has found. On the face of it, the numbers in Verizon’s 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report (which covers 2011) suggest that…
Chinese cyber skills ‘pose threat to US security’
China’s strengthening cyber capabilities will complicate US efforts to defend itself against industrial espionage and possible military confrontations in places such as Taiwan, according to a new US congressional report released today. The report was written by defence contractor Northrop Grumman for the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which…
FBI Director: Cyber Attacks Could Be Bigger Threat Than Terrorism
FBI Director Robert Mueller suggested Thursday that cyber-security threats could soon be more of a threat than terrorism. View full post on cyber terrorism – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security