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Cybersecurity: A view from the front lines

The changes in the digital world today represent a dramatically sped-up version of the changes the world underwent in a century of industrialization. It is a paradigm transformation of our world: Notions of a nation’s size, wealth, power, military might, … Continue reading

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Manual Applies Laws of War to Cyber Attacks

LONDON (AP) — Even cyberwar has rules, and one group of experts is putting out a manual to prove it. Their handbook, due to be published later this week, applies the practice of international law to the world of electronic … Continue reading

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Protecting the Nation’s Electric Grid from Cyber Threats

Protecting the electric system from cyber threats and ensuring its resilience are vital to our national security and economic well-being. This is exactly why cybersecurity is one of four key themes in the White House’s Policy Framework for a 21st … Continue reading

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Bradley Manning and the next Security Paradigm: Insider Threats

Bradley Manning Had Secrets from Animate Projects on Vimeo. Bradley Manning is an Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables to Wikileaks. Depending on your perspective, he’s become a symbol for high tech whistleblowing, or dangerous … Continue reading

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US Chamber of Commerce hackers went undetected for one year

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the largest business lobbying group in the world, was hacked and all of the information stored on its computer systems was accessible to the hackers, who are suspected to have operated out of China. This, … Continue reading

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As expected: Police start to employ Predator drone spy planes in US

Armed with a search warrant, Nelson County Sheriff Kelly Janke went looking for six missing cows on the Brossart family farm in the early evening of June 23. Three men brandishing rifles chased him off, he said. Janke knew the … Continue reading

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Watch the software that may be watching you

Though the software is installed on most modern Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones, Carrier IQ was virtually unknown until 25-year-old Trevor Eckhart of Connecticut analyzed its workings, revealing that the software secretly chronicles a user’s phone experience — ostensibly so … Continue reading

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Hackers Leak Facebook Law Enforcement Data Access Guidelines

A group of hackers claiming to represent Anonymous’s Antisec movement hijacked two Gmail accounts belonging to a retired California Department of Justice cybercrimes investigator, now a private investigator, and on November 18 published 38,000 private emails and identifying contact information … Continue reading

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Researcher uncovers cyber attack on Illinois water system

Federal investigators are looking into a report that hackers managed to remotely shut down a utility’s water pump in central Illinois last week, in what could be the first known foreign cyber attack on a U.S. industrial system. The Nov. … Continue reading

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4 Cyberattacks Cost DoE At Least $2 Million: Number of Identified Weaknesses Up by 60% in Year

The Department of Energy’s non-classified IT systems have recently come under successful cyberattacks at least four times, costing the department more than $2 million, the DoE inspector general said in an audit made public Monday. The report, part of the … Continue reading

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