First-Ever Cybersecurity Workforce Strategy to Boost Recruitment of Best Cyber Talent For Government
The White House announced today that the Obama administration is directing a series of actions to “identify, recruit, develop, retain, and expand the pipeline...
Aftermath of Cyber Breaches: Swift Hires Cybersecurity Firms
Following the cyber heists which affected several banks on its network, SWIFT has engaged expert cyber security firms BAE Systems and Fox-IT to improve...
Hacker Takes Credit For Amazon Breach: Hawks Data on About 84,000 Kindle Users
A hacker calling himself 0x2Taylor claims to have breached an Amazon server, which contains more than 80,000 usernames and passwords of Kindle users.
The hacker...
Department of Defense to Host Hacking Competition Next Month in Las Vegas
The Defense Department says it is hosting a huge hacking competition next month in Las Vegas to “automate the cyber defense process.” The competition...
Homeland Security Warns of Severe Security Issues With Symantec Antivirus
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) on Tuesday issued a security alert over a vulnerability in Symantec Corp’s antivirus...
Noodles & Company Suffers Data Breach: More Than 40 Stores Affected
Restaurant chain Noodles & Company said June 28 that a recent data security incident may have compromised the security of payment information of some...
67 Percent of Used Drives on Craigslist and eBay Contain Personal Information – Study
Ecommerce sites are reselling used electronics without permanently erasing data from them, according to The Leftovers: A Data Recovery Study released yesterday by Blancco...
As A Precautionary Measure Against Cybercriminals, IRS Retires PIN
The Internal Revenue Service announced June 23 that the electronic filing PIN tool will no longer be available on IRS.gov or by toll-free phone....
Tor’s Selfrando Project To Prevent De-anonymizing Exploits
In a bid to prevent spying by the FBI and others, Tor is collaborating with security researchers to improve its browser security, and specifically...
DHS Awards Funding To Fatcom To ‘Advance’ Security For IoT Devices
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced on June 17 that it awarded $199,000 to Factom Inc. based in...