April 08, 2013
Several U.S. trade groups also have objected to the provision, part of a recently passed appropriations bill, which bars certain federal agencies from buying IT tech gear produced by Chinese government-related companies.
April 04, 2013
The state, no stranger to pioneering data security and privacy legislation, is at it again with a proposed measure that would force companies to be transparent about with whom they are sharing customer information.
The rule, part of a general appropriations bill signed by President Obama last week, comes following growing evidence of China's organized cyber espionage operations.
April 01, 2013
Espionage and fraud in cyber is not an armed conflict, says SystemExpert's Jonathan Gossels.
April 01, 2013
This month's news briefs includes recent news on Mandiant uncovering China's cyber espionage efforts, security firm Bit9's breach, and the Obama administrations latest efforts on combating the theft of trade secrets.
In this month's debate, two experts discuss whether or not China is the top cyber threat to the United States.
In a matter of weeks, an Arizona federal judge is expected to decide whether the FBI illegally caught an accused fraudster.
March 28, 2013
Phishing attacks were among the top 12 schemes hatched by tax season scammers.
According to the legislation, the review process will quell cyber espionage threats from China.
March 26, 2013
The bill draft, which is in a preliminary stage, included harsher penalties for Computer Fraud and Abuse Act violations.
Senators say current provisions of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act give law enforcement too many liberties when accessing the electronic communications of Americans.
March 13, 2013
Cyber Command Chief Gen. Keith Alexander is now assembling 13 teams of IT experts for this purpose.
After intense opposition from the public, the Canadian government pledged to not introduce additional legislation to monitor online activity.
The Canadian government should to make it mandatory for utility companies and others to tighten security, a former official told a security conference.
The nascent partnership between a Chinese development group and an entrepreneurial hub funded by three levels of Canadian government has raised concerns from an outspoken former security adviser to Nortel Networks.
For those of us who have been pursuing an effective public-private threat sharing mechanism, there's hope that maybe this time a program will be developed that effectively accomplishes this task.
Attackers behind the MiniDuke spy campaign have targeted government entities and other organizations around the world since at least 2011.
March 01, 2013
Industrial control systems remain troublingly vulnerable to both internal error and outside intruders, reports Danielle Walker.
This month's featured debate informs whether the FTC should have the right to penalize companies for poor data security/privacy practices.
The European Union is close to implementing an information protection law that will homogenize the responsibility of all of its 27 member states, which could have a ripple effect in the U.S.
Offering up more general guidelines to strengthen the country's critical infrastructure security - as in the president's recent executive order - is all well and good, but without any meaningful and enforceable requirements then, really, what's the point?
Microsoft's Scott Charney isn't ready to wave the white flag of surrender. In fact, he believes the security profession has done an admirable job, and there's reason to be confident that the future is bright.
The consumer protection agency said vulnerabilities and the "insecure implementation" of diagnostic software propelled action against the American division of the mobile device maker for a number of security shortfalls.
Cyber criminals are repurposing data-stealing trojans, once used primarily to steal banking information, to collect intellectual property, which can be sold for a higher price tag, according to a McAfee study.
February 20, 2013
The news comes after a detailed report emerged that U.S. firms were the target of Chinese government-backed espionage operations.
February 14, 2013
Lawmakers have begun debate on the controversial threat information-sharing bill known as CISPA, which would complement the president's cyber security executive order. But it has a host of privacy objections to clear first.
On Sunday, Anonymous said it hacked the Fed, before exposing the data of 4,000 bankers. Now, it appears the claims are true.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has unnerved privacy experts with a change to its electronic tax-filing policy: It has removed several authentication requirements for electronic filers.
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC), a department of the Government of Canada, was reeling last month after the personal data of 583,000 Canadians was lost on a portable hard drive.
Several hundred employees and contractors at the U.S. Department of Energy were compromised in the breach, though reportedly no classified information was accessed by hackers.
