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Most of the time organizations like to stay as hush-hush as possible when it comes to being the victim of a cyber attack, but sometimes, the victim has the weaponry to send a salvo of their own in retaliation, as is the case with The New York Times and their global megaphone. To Global Digital Forensics founder, Joe Caruso, “This type of high profile exposé should be a lesson that every US organization with a digital presence should not only take to heart, but take action on as...
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PhishMe Inc., the leader in spear-phishing awareness training, today announced that its CEO and co-founder, Rohyt Belani, will present at both Security B-Sides and RSA 2013 in San Francisco next week. Co-presenting with Brandon Dunlap of non-profit EnergySec, Rohyt will explain why spear-phishing attacks are a major threat to U.S. critical infrastructure - namely, our Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. As the U.S....
NEW YORK, Feb. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Group-IB, Russia's leading computer security company, has announced Bot-Trek(TM), a comprehensive tool that gathers compromised data and intelligence from botnets and makes it available to the original Intellectual Property owners via a SaaS solution. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130218/NY61751LOGO) Botnets is an exploding problem. They are used to steal private data, send spam, provide anonymous services for crimes, and...
The Automation Federation and its member organizations are honored to assist the Obama administration in establishing effective cybersecurity safeguards for America’s industrial automation and control systems. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA (PRWEB) February 16, 2013 Working with the Obama administration, the Automation Federation is helping to forge national security standards, guidelines and compliance testing for safeguarding America’s critical infrastructure from...
ANNAPOLIS, Md., Feb. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ: TSYS), a world leader in highly reliable and secure mobile communication technology, today announced the American Council on Education College Credit Recommendation Service (ACE CREDIT(®)) has evaluated and recommended college credit for eight of TCS' cybersecurity courses: Bootcamp Edition 2.0 - Nine-day course; 40+ labs; basic tactics of penetration testing and exploitation Developers...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Most cybercrime is carried out by a loose confederation of independent contractors who work together when necessary through online forums and "partnerkas" that allow them to pool their resources, but these online criminal networks can be foiled, according to a new report released today by the Digital Citizens Alliance. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130214/DC60386LOGO ) The Digital Citizens report sheds light on how global...
Digital assets take many forms; and while corporate secrets, intellectual property and electronic currency are tantalizing targets for hackers, it’s often information about people they are after, as the slew of recent high-profile hacks demonstrate. The founder of Global Digital Forensics sheds a little light on why this information is so valuable to hackers and some of the fundamentals crucial to every business or organization in today’s digital age to protect it. New York, NY (PRWEB)...
Victims of cyberstalking take more self-protective measures, pay higher out-of-pocket costs to combat the problem and experience greater fear over time than traditional stalking victims, said Matt Nobles of Sam Houston State University. Nobles, along with Bradford Reyns of Weber State University, Kathleen Fox of Arizona State University and Bonnie Fisher of the University of Cincinnati, recently published "Protection Against Pursuit: A Conceptual and Empirical Comparison of Cyberstalking...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online China is conducting a sustained cyber-espionage campaign against US businesses and institutions in an effort to find information that would give Chinese firms an economic advantage, according to a new US intelligence assessment. The classified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which represents the consensus view of the US intelligence community, is one of the most secretive national security documents in the federal...
Andreas Baumhof, CTO of ThreatMetrix, to Provide Insight and Advice on Growing Financial Threat Landscape San Jose, CA (PRWEB) February 11, 2013 ThreatMetrix™, the fastest-growing provider of integrated cybercrime prevention solutions, today announced that Andreas Baumhof, chief technology officer, ThreatMetrix, has been named to the BankInfoSecurity Board of Advisers to contribute his expert opinion on the growing cybersecurity threats to the financial industry. Published by...
