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Get caught up with the Cybersecurity Docket News Wire for August 30, 2014.
Get caught up with the Cybersecurity Docket News Wire for August 29, 2014.
JPMorgan reported to shareholders that it will have spent $250 million on cybersecurity by the end of 2014. It employs more than 1,000 people for these efforts, according to the annual shareholder letter from Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon. That makes this defeat particularly bitter. via Why $250M didn’t protect JPMorgan from hackers – CBS […]
Get caught up with the Cybersecurity Docket News Wire for August 28, 2014.
The FBI confirmed last night that it is working with the U.S. Secret Service “to determine the scope of recently reported cyber attacks against several American financial institutions.” According to the WSJ, federal investigators are primarily focused on a possible “significant breach of corporate computer security” at J.P. Morgan and up to four other banks. J.P […]
Congressional staffers from both sides of the aisle came to Stanford last week for a cybersecurity boot camp. They heard from Google’s Eric Schmidt that security problems are serious, but can be reduced with better encryption of communications. via Google’s Eric Schmidt tells Stanford gathering that the key to cybersecurity is better encryption — Phys.org
Get caught up with the Cybersecurity Docket News Wire for August 27, 2014.
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Get caught up with the Cybersecurity Docket News Wire for August 25, 2014.
A cyber attack at a firm that performs background checks for U.S. government employees compromised data of at least 25,000 workers, including some undercover investigators, and that number could rise, agency officials said on Friday. The breach at Falls Church, Virginia-based US Investigations Services (USIS) exposed highly personal information of workers at the Department of […]
Get caught up with the Cybersecurity Docket News Wire for August 24, 2014.
Get caught up with the Cybersecurity Docket News Wire for August 23, 2014.
A cyber attack at a firm that performs background checks for U.S. government employees compromised data of at least 25,000 workers, including some undercover investigators, and that number could rise, agency officials said on Friday. The breach at Falls Church, Virginia-based US Investigations Services (USIS) exposed highly personal information of workers at the Department of […]
Get caught up with the Cybersecurity Docket News Wire for August 22, 2014.
UK government security agency GCHQ wants the public to help protect a (fictitious) aerospace technology company threatened by imminent attack from cyber terrorists. The scenario is the latest competition run by Cyber Security Challenge UK, which aims to attract new talent into the IT security industry. The year-long series of games ends in a live […]