Category Archives: Cybersecurity Memo – Insiders Edition

WASHINGTON — Online scams including identity theft schemes, “advance fee” and “romance fraud” cost Americans some $485 million in 2011, a report prepared for the FBI said Thursday. The Internet Crime Complaint Center annual report said the number of complaints … Continue reading →

The adage “never discuss politics” has never applied much to the Web. But on Friday, political discussion surrounding a new cybersecurity bill turned into an all out messaging war between the bill’s critics and its backers. The bill, the Cyber … Continue reading →

SOPA did not generate much support amongst the masses. CISPA is different. Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Intel, AT&T, Verizon have already sent letters to congress voicing support for CISPA. And that should come as no surprise. Whereas SOPA and PIPA … Continue reading →

CISPA is about companies and the government sharing information. CISPA places no explicit limits on the type of information that may be shared with the government, or between private companies, as long as it is somehow related to cyber threats. … Continue reading →

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s top cyber cop offered a grim appraisal of the nation’s efforts to keep computer hackers from plundering corporate data networks: “We’re not winning,” he said. Shawn Henry, who is preparing to leave the FBI after … Continue reading →

A new feature story in this month’s Wired blows the lid off plans for a massive new National Security Agency data center in Utah that represents the resurrection of a program that Congress killed in 2003, known as “Total Information … Continue reading →

In a new warning, the Federal Bureau of Investigation warns account holders of a new spam email scheme that involves a type of malware called “Gameover.” The scheme involves fake emails from the National Automated Clearing House Association, the Federal … Continue reading →

This very important strategic plan establishes four cybersecurity R&D themes to unify and focus the cybersecurity research community on a common set of problems. The intent of each theme is to delineate the scope of a compelling hard problem in … Continue reading →

A bill currently being considered by the House Select Committee on Intelligence would intertwine the National Security Agency (NSA) with corporate America, exposing vast amounts of private civilian data to unprecedented levels of monitoring, all in the name of “cybersecurity.” … Continue reading →

IBM’s research team in Zurich, Switzerland have been working on solving a huge security issue: Secure, remote, corporate desktop PC environments, delivered within seconds by simply plugging in a USB stick into your existing personal PC. The new technology, called … Continue reading →