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Israel Police pulled computers offline due to RAT infestation
Trend Micro researchers have managed to get their hands on the malware that caused the Israeli Police Department to pull all of its systems offline last Thursday, and the …
Privacy compliance laws: Why the European Commission finally got it right
The debate about privacy compliance has always been a heated one. Add to the mix new European Commission legislation and you have a recipe for not only a lively debate but …
U.S. DHS reshuffles its cyber office, adds two more divisions
Trying to keep in step with the increasing need for cybersecurity capabilities, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications …
SCAP scanning and CyberScope reporting
nCircle announced the debut of IP360 Federal, featuring a Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) 1.2 draft compliant scanner. SCAP combines a number of open standards and …
Scareware marketer ordered to pay $163M fine
At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a federal court imposed a judgment of more than $163 million on the final defendant in the FTC’s case against an …
Police raids controversial Swedish web host, Pirate Bay site is down
The Pirate Bay’s website is unreachable and has been down for over a day now, prompting speculation that Monday’s police raid of the premises of Stockholm-based …
White House Military Office breached by Chinese hackers
Following the recent confirmation by a senior intelligence officer with the U.S. Cyber Command that the Pentagon systems and networks are constantly under cyber attacks and …
Moving federal mission-critical applications to the cloud
As federal agencies are making cloud progress, the early-adopters that are moving their mission-critical applications to the cloud are realizing cost savings and improved …
Secure smart card reader for government applications
Belkin announced the first USB smart card and common access card (CAC) reader specifically designed for government applications. Offering the broadest range of smart card …
Cyber criminals actively targeting financial institutions, warns FBI
Cyber criminals have been and are actively targeting employees of financial institutions with spam and phishing e-mails, warns the FBI-backed Internet Crime Complaint Center …
Data breaches expose 94 million records in the government sector
An analysis of government breach data shows that the government sector reported 268 incidents of data breaches from January 1, 2009 to May 31, 2012, which exposed more than 94 …
Government warns businesses of cyber crime threat
The government’s spy agency, GCHQ, launched a programme that aims to help business leaders tackle the growing threat of cyber attacks. The program, dubbed Cyber Security …