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DHS chief says feds need help to defend Internet against cyberattacks

2008-04-09 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Michael Chertoff, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said at an IT security conference that protecting against cyberattacks is a shared responsibility of government and the private sector
 
Tags: michael chertoff, cyberattacks, homeland security, security conference, government, department, sector, responsibility, secretary
 
 
 
 
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Cyberattack! Manipulation and Subversion of Financial Markets!

2008-01-08 11:55:09 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...cyberattacks are upon us Notice how a direct competitor to E*Trade Bank , Citigroup , used the power of cyberspace, rumors and (mis)information to manipulate the market price of E*Trade ( ETFC ). This might have not been such an eyebrow raising event if the rumor (cyberattack) was by a disinterested third party. The attack wasby a direct...
 
Tags: etrade, etrade financial, etrade bank, etrade financialis, etrade stocks, cyberattack, etrade bankruptcy risk, market, free market
 
 
 
 
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Summarizing August's Threatscape

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2008-09-10 06:57:32 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...cyberattacks indicates "selective retention", talking about FAPSI indicates better understanding of the subject In times when cybercrime is getting ever easier to outsource, anyone following the news could basically orchestrate a large scale DDoS attack against a particular country in order to forward the responsibility to any country that...
 
Tags: malware, facebook malware campaigns, usefulness pinch malware, banker malware kits, malware campaigns, botnet, diy botnet kit, distribute malware, banker malware
 
 
 
 
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Hacking Power Networks

2008-01-22 14:24:55 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...cyberattacks crippling multicity regions appears to have prompted the government to make this information public. The issue "went from 'we should be concerned about to this' to 'this is something we should fix now,' " said Paller. "That's why, I think, the government decided to disclose this More rumor : An attendee of the meeting said that...
 
Tags: power, power companies, companies, cia actively, power outages, cia, cia rumor, disrupt power equipment, attacks
 
 
 
 
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Healthcare organizations feeling cyberattacks growing

2008-02-27 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Healthcare organizations feel under increasing attack from the Internet, while security incidents involving insiders and disappearing laptops with sensitive data are piling up. On top of that, there's now the prospect of a surprise audit from the federal government agency in charge of overseeing the HIPAA security and privacy rules
 
Tags: healthcare organizations, federal government agency, sensitive data, security incidents, privacy rules, surprise audit, hipaa security, prospect, laptops
 
 
 
 
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Q&A: Olympics cyberattack not a major threat, says Interpol official

2008-05-01 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Interpol's executive director for police services says his organization's greatest concern with the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing is terrorism rather than cyberattacks
 
Tags: interpol, police services, executive director, olympic games, cyberattacks, terrorism, concern, organization
 
 
 
 
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Belgium accuses China of cyberattacks

2008-05-08 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472ecc in Network World on Security
 
It's not just the U.S. and U.K. who are crying foul over China's behavior in cyberspace - now the government of tiny Belgium has accused hackers from the country of targeting its systems
 
Tags: tiny belgium, china, country, government, cyberspace, foul, behavior, systems, hackers
 
 
 
 
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Weak evidence links congressmen's cyberattacks to China, experts say

2008-06-13 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Security experts say that claims Chinese hackers accessed the computers of U.S. congressmen are not well substantiated
 
Tags: claims chinese hackers, security experts, computers
 
 
 
 
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Most corporate networks vulnerable to cyberattacks

2008-06-23 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473a2c in Network World on Security
 
Eighty-one percent of corporate end points failed basic security checks in a wide ranging global survey by security solutions and services provider Sophos
 
Tags: services provider sophos, basic security checks, security solutions, global survey, eighty-one percent, wide