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Hacking exposes holes in officers Web security

"A cyber-attack on the email accounts of Texas police chiefs revealed the vulnerability even of the state's top cops and appears to have prompted a new investigation into a notorious hacking group. The stealthy group known as Anonymous claimed responsibility for "Texas Takedown Thursday." The email accounts of 25 members of the Texas Police Chiefs Association were compromised and their contents posted online." Source: Hacking exposes holes in officers Web security - Houston Chronicle ›
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DHS warns of planned Anonymous attacks

"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today issued a somewhat unusual bulletin warning the security community about the planned activities of hacking collective Anonymous over the next few months. The bulletin, issued by the DHS National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), warns financial services companies especially to be on the lookout for ›
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Coordinated ATM Heist Nets Thieves $13M

"An international cybercrime gang stole $13 million from a Florida-based financial institution earlier this year, by executing a highly-coordinated heist in which thieves used ATMs around the globe to cash out stolen prepaid debit cards, KrebsOnSecurity has learned." Source: Coordinated ATM Heist Nets Thieves $13M — Krebs on Security ›
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Top 35 Cyber Security Mitigation Strategies

"At least 85% of the targeted cyber intrusions that the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) responded to in 2010 could have been prevented by following the first four mitigation strategies listed in our Top 35 Mitigation Strategies: Patch applications such as PDF readers, Microsoft Office, Java, Flash Player and web browsers. Patch operating system v ›
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Army takes on technology and acquisition with new strategy

"The Defense Department is in the midst of a major transformation of all its business operations, driven by new budget and battlefield realities. The Army has its own part to play in that transformation, which is why it recently launched a major initiative to revolutionize the way it uses technology to support soldiers on the battlefield. As director of th ›
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New data spill shows risk of online health records

"Until recently, medical files belonging to nearly 300,000 Californians sat unsecured on the Internet for the entire world to see. There were insurance forms, Social Security numbers and doctors' notes. Among the files were summaries that spelled out, in painstaking detail, a trucker's crushed fingers, a maintenance worker's broken ribs and one man's bout ›
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Hackers take aim at prison locks and other real-world targets

"Security professionals need to step back from the technology and look at how these real-world systems -- from prisons to power plants -- are designed, said Tom Parker, vice president of security services at FusionX, a computer security company. "We're making the same mistakes over and over again," he said, adding that these at-risk networking components a ›
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Researchers warn of SCADA equipment discoverable via Google

" "You can do a Google search with your Web browser and start operating [circuit] breakers, potentially," Parker, chief technology officer at security consultancy FusionX, told CNET in a break during the workshop on "Building, Attacking And Defending SCADA Systems in the Age of Stuxnet."" Source: Researchers warn of SCADA equipment discoverable via Google ›
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Cloud security fears exaggerated, says federal CIO

"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is not afraid of the public cloud. Indeed, this agency is vetting cloud providers to host the public websites of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, as well as the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to its CIO, Richard Spires. And the department's use of the public cloud providers is lik ›
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Cyber Threat Will Force Pentagon to Buy Computers Faster and Change Culture

"There is no doubt that the Pentagon is gearing up for a cyber war and they're planning to purchase new computers with the speed and efficiency that would make Google proud. Last week, the Department of Defense disclosed a cyber attack in March that exposed a record 24,000 department files. While officials calle ›
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Security Recommendations to Prevent Cyber Intrusions

"US-CERT is providing this Technical Security Alert in response to recent, well-publicized intrusions into several government and private sector computer networks. Network administrators and technical managers should not only follow the recommended security controls information systems outlined in NIST 800-53 but also consider the following measures. These ›
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Canadian intelligence warns of growing cyber-threat

"The Canadian intelligence service has singled out cyber attacks as one of the biggest threats facing Canada in its latest annual report. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), which is responsible for investigating threats to national security, said that politically motivated threats, or attacks against critical information infrastructure, are ›
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MoD Creates Command Unit To Counter Cyber Threats

"Liam Fox has created a new joint force command at the MoD to oversee cyber warfare and military intelligence Reforms at the Ministry of Defence week will also include the creation of a new joint force command unit, that will integrate the MoD’s cyber warfare and military intelligence units. The reforms were announced by defence secretary Liam Fox in Pa ›