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2013 Global Information Security Workforce Study Finds Hactivism, Cyber Terrorism, and State-Sponsored Acts among List of Top Security Concerns, Yet Two-Thirds of CISOs Feel Short-Staffed, Resulting in Frequent and Costly Data Breaches San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 25, 2013 (ISC)2® (“ISC-squared”), the world’s largest not-for-profit information security professional body and administrators of the CISSP®, today released the results of its sixth Global Information...

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...

LAS VEGAS, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MetaPower International, Inc. (OTCPINK: MTPR) (the "Company") announces that Edwin G. Gibson, Jr. has been elected as the President of MetaPower International, Inc. effective Monday, February 11, 2013. Mr. Gibson was also elected President of the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, MetaPower, Inc. In turn, MetaPower, Inc., as the sole shareholder of its' Canadian subsidiary, MetaPower Canada, Ltd., elected Mr. Gibson to the Board of Directors...

VAN BUREN, Ark., Feb. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- USA Truck, Inc. (NASDAQ: USAK) announced today that John Simone has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer and has joined the Company's Board of Directors. Former CEO Cliff Beckham has returned to his previous role as the Company's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, which he previously held from 2002 to 2007. Both changes are effective immediately. (Logo:...

KAUAI, Hawaii, Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) second-generation Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system achieved its first intercept using tracking information from the space tracking and surveillance system demonstration satellites during a Missile Defense Agency (MDA) test. The system successfully launched and guided a Standard Missile-3 Block IA guided missile to engage a medium range unitary ballistic missile target using remote tracking...

HONOLULU, Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Riki Ellison, Chairman and Founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA), www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org, comments on the North Korea's nuclear test this morning. Ellison is one of the top lay experts on missile defense in the world. Kim Jong-un has followed the success and international notoriety from his long-range ballistic missile firing on December 17th and vow against the United Nations and the United States to...

FARMINGTON, Conn., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Software, networking, cyber security and hardware are critical IT components that make or break military performance. Government leaders should ask what they can learn from the IT models employed by vendors and providers themselves and consider the implications for their nation's military IT function. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130212/CG58257) The global military IT, data and computing market is estimated to...

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and former Cybersecurity Czar Howard Schmidt will be joined by moderator Scott Hartz of anti-malware company TaaSERA to discuss the growing sophistication of cyber attacks over the last decade, and how industry and government can work together to secure a very complex and dynamic cyber frontier. The discussion, marking the 10-year anniversary of both the Department of Homeland Security and the...

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...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is awarding a $10,000 grant to Still Serving Veterans (SSV) to aid in transitioning veterans to meaningful careers. Lockheed Martin, a member of the Huntsville community for 50 years, is partnering with SSV to support veterans' advocacy initiatives, long-term development and job placement. The grant will enhance the SSV's Workforce Community Blueprint Transition program, which provides resources for...