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NSA Chief Says Today’s Cyber Attacks Amount to ‘Greatest Transfer of Wealth in History’

The general in charge of the National Security Agency on Monday said the lack of national cybersecurity leglislation is costing us big and amounting to what he believes is “the greatest transfer of wealth in history.”

U.S. Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander urged politicians to stop stalling on approving a much-needed cybersecurity law – of which various versions currently are circulating in Congress. At the same time, he implored private companies to better cooperate with government agencies, many of whom remain mum because of privacy concerns.  

Most of What You’ve Read About DNSChanger Is Wrong. Here’s How.

If you’ve been scanning the headlines or watching the evening news, you may have heard that tens of thousands of Internet users in the U.S. – hundreds of thousands around the world – will be cut off from the Internet on Monday, July 9, after servers set up at the bequest of the U.S. government go dark. That’s bad, right? Well, maybe not.

Wikileaks to Publish Almost 2.5 Million ‘Syria Files’

Whistle blower website Wikileaks announced Thursday that it would publish nearly 2.5 million e-mails from 680 agencies in Syria over the next two months. In a press release on the organization’s site, Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange claimed “the material is embarrassing to Syria,” and “Syria’s opponents.”

An Unhappy Birthday For Uncle Sam On Cyber Security

by Paul Roberts
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Here’s the good news on America’s birthday: the last year has seen the U.S. emerge as an undisputed global leader in the use of offensive cyber operations. Averting another “Sputnik” moment, the nation’s longest running and most successful democracy blazed new trails in non-kinetic warfare, effectively ending speculation that the world’s lone superpower was asleep at the wheel as nations like China and Russia dashed ahead in the cyber realm. Now for the bad news: we’re screwed.

Senator Seeks to Strengthen SEC-Required Cybercrime Reporting

by Anne Saita
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U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller wants to strengthen SEC legislation that requires publicly traded companies disclose significant digital security breaches, mainly because most aren’t.

The chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee last week added a provision to cybersecurity legislation that would direct the SEC to clarify when companies must disclose data breaches. 

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