ZDNetGovWeek: Obama proposes a sort-of end to NSA phone records, AWS gets DoD...
It’s an odd week when government tech news mentions both President Obama and ripped-from-the-seventies President Carter. But that’s life in these United States. We also have a wide range of less silly...
View ArticleCity reports website down after “cyber attack” [Albuquerque Journal, N.M. :: ]
Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) March 30–The Albuquerque Police Department website is down and remains dark as of 10:50 a.m. Sunday morning, police said, due to what they called a cyber attack.
View ArticleAPD website hacked in cyber-attack
ISSUE. REPORTING IN DOWNTOWN, KOAT ACTION 7NEWS. PEOPLE ARE CYBER PROTESTING AGAINST THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
View ArticleFireEye Report Analyzes Zero-day Attacks of 2013
FireEye, a provider of solutions that help companies block advanced cyber attacks, has released a new report put together after analyzing 11 zero-day vulnerabilities discovered in 2013 by the security...
View ArticleExclusive: NSA infiltrated RSA security more deeply than thought – study
Security industry pioneer RSA adopted not just one but two encryption tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, greatly increasing the spy agency’s ability to eavesdrop on some Internet...
View ArticleUzbekistan Tightens Internet Cafe Scrutiny: Reports
MOSCOW – Uzbekistan has brought in new regulations to increase surveillance of Internet cafes in the latest tightening of the country’s strict rules governing access to the web, local media reported....
View Article‘njRAT’ Malware Gains Popularity Among Middle East Attack Groups
Attackers in the Middle East are increasingly adding a new tool into their toolbox, according to Symantec. Researchers at the security firm say that a remote access tool known as njRAT is gaining...
View ArticleIntel Bets Big on Cloud, With Stake in Cloudera
SAN FRANCISCO – In a sign of the growing importance of the Internet “cloud,” software group Cloudera said Monday it raised a whopping $900 million to expand its big data corporate services. US chip...
View ArticleBank Drops Out of Target Data Breach Lawsuit
It’s not clear why Trustmark dropped out of the suit, but Trustwave says it was incorrectly identified as Target’s security services provider.
View ArticleLost USB Drive Exposes Sensitive Data from Wolf and Company
Names and Social Security numbers may have been exposed when the unencrypted drive was lost in the mail.
View ArticleResearcher Warns of Tesla Model S Security Flaws
A relatively vulnerable six-character password can be leveraged to unlock the car and view its location.
View ArticleBusiness counts cost of cyber attackers’ secret weapon
Businesses around the world are counting the cost of failing to defend against advanced evasion techniques , a report reveals.
View ArticleTesla Model S Cars Can be Unlocked With Stolen Passwords: Researcher
A recent presentation at the Black Hat Asia conference last week placed the spotlight on securing the Internet of Things, this time in the form of an electric car. According to researcher Nitesh...
View ArticleChina’s unsupported XP machines hold the potential to become a massive botnet...
Unsupported Windows XP machines in China could pose a threat to the Internet in general if bot-herders round up significant numbers of them to use as launch pads for malicious exploits, according to a...
View ArticleCoalition Wants US to End Bulk Data Sweep
WASHINGTON – More than 40 activist organizations and companies called Tuesday for an overhaul of US government surveillance authority that goes beyond President Barack Obama’s proposal. The coalition...
View ArticleMalware Exposes Rosenthal Wine Shop Customer Data
Customers’ names, addresses, payment card account numbers, expiration dates and security codes may have been exposed.
View ArticleBitdefender Warns Users of Fake Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2015
Scammers have published videos on YouTube and links on Facebook apparently advertising Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2015. The security company warns users to beware of such schemes. The 2015 suite is...
View ArticleSurvey Finds Most Companies Aren’t Ready for a Data Breach
71 percent of IT decision makers say they’re either ‘not confident’ in their security or ‘not at all prepared’ to manage a security breach.
View ArticleSubcontractor Error Exposes 3,100 Alabama Patients’ Medical Data
A billing vendor’s IT subcontractor mistakenly stored files on an unsecured server.
View ArticleCyberTab: Free Tool That Helps Organizations Calculate Cost of Cyberattacks
If your company has become the target of a cybercriminal operation, or if you fear that it might soon be targeted in a certain type of attack, it could be very useful to understand and evaluate the...
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