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SpectorSoft recently surveyed 355 IT professionals, asking about their experience detecting and preventing insider threats – to explore how organizations are addressing this critical issue and how effective they have been. Approximately 35 percent of respondents reported they had experienced … Continue reading →

Russian hackers may have attacked the U.S. financial system in mid-August, infiltrating and stealing data from JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and at least one other bank, an incident the FBI is investigating as a possible retaliation for government-sponsored sanctions. … Continue reading →

Jay McAlllister from the SEI Innovation Center: “Cyber-intelligence is the acquisition and analysis of information that is used to identify and track – and predict – cyber-capabilities or intentions of people, and enhance decision-making using that intelligence.” IT’s ALL ABOUT … Continue reading →

An interview with Cybersecurity guru Daniel Geer… “If you give people fine-grained control over what their information is in public, people reveal more. They might say if you give me a lot of control, they’d reveal less — but it … Continue reading →

“There’s a million Snowdens of various degrees at work right now, taking data for profit.” More from the Los Angeles Times by clicking here.

A computer security firm has found evidence that a Russian cybercrime gang has stolen some 1.2 billion Internet passwords and user names. At this point, we don’t know which sites the passwords are connected to. But given the size of the … Continue reading →

The top U.S. telecom regulator on Thursday told communications companies to take the lead in fortifying their networks against cyberattacks, saying they can do more to bolster security short of new government regulations. In his first major speech devoted fully … Continue reading →

In an interview with the news agency, Stadtwerke Ettlingen’s Eberhard Oehler said that a simulated attack on the utility had revealed how easy it would be to hack into the energy company’s network through its IT grid. Felix Lindner, head of IT … Continue reading →

Malicious software used to steal millions from bank accounts has re-emerged a month after U.S. authorities broke up a major hacker network using the scheme, security researchers say. The security firm Malcovery said it identified a new trojan based on … Continue reading →

The first time the bipartisan Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board dissected a National Security Agency surveillance program, it found fundamental flaws, arguing in a January report that the NSA’s collection of domestic calling records “lacked a viable legal foundation” … Continue reading →