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June 13, 2012, 8:40PM

Pressure Mounts For Cybersecurity Bill As Negotiations Stall

by Paul Roberts

Categories: Critical Infrastructure, Data Breaches, Government, Hacks, Malware, Privacy, Social Engineering, Vulnerabilities

A joint letter from some of Washington D.C.’s leading minds in the areas of defense and diplomacy is urging Congress to pass a cyber security bill in some form this year, saying that the U.S. is urgently in need of a new policy and ill-prepared for cyber attacks.

March 23, 2012, 4:40AM

ISPs Signal Support For Anti-Bot Code Of Conduct

by Paul Roberts

Categories: Government, Malware, Web Security

The U.S.’s leading Internet Service Providers signed on to a new Federal Communications Commission code of conduct to limit the impact of major cyber security threats including botnets, attacks on the Domain Name System (DNS) and Internet routing attacks.

February 28, 2012, 9:47PM

Debate Over Active Defense and Hacking Back Crops Up at RSA

by Dennis Fisher

Categories: Critical Infrastructure, Government, Hacks

SAN FRANCISCO–The growing stream of attacks in recent years against government agencies, critical infrastructure, utilities and other vital networks has led to an increasingly heated debate around the concept of active defense and targeting the people and groups behind those attacks. That debate has been going on behind closed doors in Washington for years, but it spilled out into the public during a forum on the ethics and legality of active defense at the RSA Conference here Tuesday.

February 06, 2012, 5:06PM

Firm Finds DNS Changer Infections Linger Inside Fortune 500

by Paul Roberts

Categories: Government, Malware

A report finds that around half of the Fortune 500 corporations and government agencies infected with the DNS Changer malware are still infected, two months after authorities moved to shut down the massive botnet.

January 24, 2012, 9:05PM

Data Breach Affects Two Million NY Customers, State Commission to Investigate

by Chris Brook

Categories: Critical Infrastructure, Data Breaches, Government

The New York State Public Service Commission announced yesterday they’ll be looking into a data breach that may have exposed the personal information of almost two million customers to unknown attackers.