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Join the Cybersecurity and Incident Response Group on LinkedInWashington turns attention to cybersecurity, safety issues – WaterWorld
Cyber-attacks on water systems and other critical infrastructure are gaining increased attention in Washington. The American Water Works Association (AWWA) recently released a guidance to give water utility managers a concise set of best practices and standards for reducing their cyber vulnerabilities. It outlines a transparent and repeatable process for evaluating a utility’s process control […]
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Former FBI Director returns to private practice, where his focus will include cybersecurity issues.
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A third of businesses have no incident response plan, study shows — Acumin
The numbers that caused the most concern were that, in spite of 77% of businesses admitting to being a victim of lost data within the last two years, 38% of them still lacked plans to respond to incidents. Even more surprisingly, a mere 17% of international businesses that took part in the research felt that […]
Germany Investigating Data Breach Affecting 18m — TechWeek Europe
German government officials have said they are investigating an identity theft affecting as many as 18 million people, making it one of the country’s biggest ever reported data breaches. The Federal Office for Security in Information Technology said on Friday it was working with email providers to inform as many as 3 million users in […]
Congress Won’t Approve Cybersecurity Law Until Attack Compels It to Act, Bayh Says — Bloomberg BNA
Congress is unlikely to approve legislation to safeguard U.S. entities from cyberthreats until an attack debilitates a corporate or government computer system, former Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) said April 3 at the American Bar Association Section of International Law 2014 Spring Meeting in New York. via Congress Won’t Approve Cybersecurity Law Until Attack Compels It […]
School for spies: UK creates ‘university degrees’ in cyber security — RT News
GCHQ, Britain’s intelligence agency for information assurance, will approve UK postgraduate courses in cyber security – effectively endorsing a Masters in spying, recent reports claim. This might come in useful for the agency’s own employees…. In order to gain certification a master’s degree must offer a “general, broad foundation in cyber security” and must also […]
Incident Response Now Shaping Security Operations — InformationWeek
Now that organizations and the security industry for the most part have accepted the ugly truth that breaches are inevitable and the bad guys are going to find a way to get inside, the new focus is on how you respond to an attack or attack attempt and minimize the damage. Mega-retailer Target’s missteps in […]
Anti-media cybercrime spree continues: Al Arabiya hacked by NullCrew — ZDNet
Today two strong hacker crews teamed up and hacked into Al Arabiya servers and published a list of the company’s mail servers and a link to the root file with the vulnerability it used to penetrate the system on Pastebin. Al Arabiya is the second largest media company in the Middle East, a rival of […]
Businesses face rising political pressure from data breaches – InfoWorld
The data breaches like the one at Target and more recently a unit of credit bureau Experian are fueling consumer protection efforts that could have an impact on business. Last week, the Federal Trade Commission urged Congress to pass national breach notification legislation, while in California, a bill introduced recently in the state Legislature would […]
Maria Miller row: Department’s Twitter feed hacked — BBC News
Rogue tweets poking fun at under-fire Culture Secretary Maria Miller were posted on an official government Twitter feed on Saturday evening, after the account was hacked. Three tweets appeared on the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s feed and were quickly deleted, but not before they were shared on social media. via Maria Miller row: […]
Neiman Marcus Data Breach Said Work of Russians Who Eluded U.S. – Businessweek
Hackers who raided the credit-card payment system of Neiman Marcus Group Ltd. belong to a sophisticated Russian syndicate that has stolen more than 160 million credit-card numbers from retailers over seven years, according to people with knowledge of the matter. via Neiman Marcus Data Breach Said Work of Russians Who Eluded U.S. – Businessweek