Who Is On The Top 10 Data Breach List?
Remember when the stolen V.A. laptop made headlines in May 2006 as the biggest breach ever? Here’s the top 10 data breaches by number of records affected. Read the full article. [Databreaches.net]
Government
Some Advice for Howard Schmidt
It’s been little more than 24 hours since President Obama named Howard Schmidt his White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, but it didn’t take nearly that long for just about everyone with any interest in security to line up on one side or the other of the “he has no chance/he’ll save the Internet” line.
Prisoner Hacks Prison Employee Info in Jail
A former Massachusetts prison inmate has been given an 18-month prison
sentence for hacking prison computers while he was incarcerated. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
At first glance, the selection of Howard A. Schmidt as the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator looks like little more than a safe and easy choice designed to quiet the critics who for seven months have been howling for action from the Obama administration. But a closer look shows that Schmidt’s appointment may in fact be a milestone in the government’s handling of information security issues.
President Obama on Tuesday appointed Howard Schmidt, the former CSO of Microsoft and Bush administration security adviser, to be the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator. In this podcast, recorded in May soon after Obama’s announcement that he would appoint a security czar, Dennis Fisher talks with Schmidt about the job, the cybercrime problem and what needs to be done to fix it.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing a computer-security
breach targeting Citigroup Inc. that resulted in a theft of tens of
millions of dollars by computer hackers who appear linked to a Russian
cyber gang, according to government officials. Read the full article. [Wall Street Journal]
Howard A. Schmidt, the former CSO of Microsoft and former security adviser to President George W. Bush, was named White House Cybersecurity Coordinator on Tuesday.
CNN reports on the U.S. Cyber Challenge, which is aimed at identifying young people with exceptional computer skills and inspiring them to join the country’s woefully understaffed ranks of cybersecurity specialists.
A Chinese court Wednesday sentenced 11 members of a malware ring for writing and distributing Trojan horse viruses meant to steal online game account passwords, according to state media. Read the full article. [IDG News Service]
Security researchers believe changes being made by the Chinese government to the DNS process could help limit the number of malicious sites using the .cn top-level domain. Read the full article. [eWEEK]
