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TSA chief likely to face lawmakers' questions on pat-downs, body scans

"The head of the Transportation Security Administration will likely get a pat-down on air-travel security measures as he testifies before Congress on Wednesday morning. The appearance by John Pistole was scheduled before controversy broke out over the past week about the agency's full body scans and pat-downs. But protest movements about the searches make such questioning likely when Pistole testifies about his agency's security efforts before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation." (Source: TSA chief likely to face lawmakers' questions on pat-downs, body scans - CNN.com) ›
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U.S. sees huge cyber threat in the future

"The United States faces a major threat in the future from cyber technologies that will require civil-military coordination to shield networks from attack, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday. 'I think there is a huge future threat. And there is a considerable current threat,' Gates told The Wall Street Journal CEO Council. 'And that's just the r ›
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Murdoch Warns Of China Economic Prowess

"The US faces an immense economic challenge from China's explosive economic growth, free trade has gotten a bad rap, and President Barack Obama will have trouble getting reelected, News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch told FOX Business Tuesday in a wide-ranging interview. Speaking with Fox Business' Liz Claman, Murdoch also explained that the US is still in the midd ›
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Website Publishes 100 Pictures Of Federal Security Body Scans

"The website Gizmodo has published 100 pictures of body scans taken at an Orlando Federal Courthouse. The scans are not from the 'naked scan' machines that the Department of Homeland Security announced were going into 28 airports in the country, earlier this year. Instead, they are much more pixelated and less embarrassing." (Source: Website Publishes 100 ›
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DOD builds infrastructure to support cyber forces

"he Defense Department is putting in place the infrastructure and tools necessary to achieve its cyber protection goals and objectives. Here’s what is on the horizon. Information Assurance Range and National Cyber Range for testing advanced capabilities. The Defense Information Systems Agency and Marine Corps have been collaborating on an Information Ass ›
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Detroit Hospital Security Breach

"Henry Ford Health Systems has notified patients of a possible security breach after a laptop was stolen out of an unlocked medical urology office September 24th. Representatives with the hospital said although the password was protected there is a possibility some personal patient information could be at risk. The hospital began notifying affected patients in a letter ma ›
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Pentagon Criticized For Not Doing More to Protect Homeland From Cyberattacks

"The Defense Department declaring that it will only be responsible for protecting its own computer networks and that the private sector must fend for itself would be like telling U.S. Steel in Pittsburgh that an air assault is coming and it must go out and buy its own fighter jets and antiaircraft guns. So said R ›
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Simulated cyberattack tests Europe's defences

"The test exercise — dubbed Cyber Europe 2010 — was confined to public bodies, and ran on Thursday. The exercise was the first of its kind in Europe and was designed to mimic gradual loss of internet interconnectivity between countries. Cyber Europe 2010 was organised by European cybersecurity agency Enisa. 'Member states will simulate progressive diffi ›
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Microsoft warns of new IE zero-day attacks

"Microsoft has raised an alarm for a new round of targeted malware attacks against a zero-day vulnerability in its dominant Internet Explorer browser. The vulnerability affects all supported versions of Internet Explorer and can be exploited to launch remote code execution (drive by download) attacks, Microsoft said in an advisory." (Source: Microsoft war ›
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Thousands of laptops stolen during nine-hour heist

"Thousands of laptops have been stolen from the Florida office of a private contractor for the U.S. military's Special Operations Command. Surveillance cameras caught up to seven people loading the computers into two trucks for nine hours. U.S. Special Operations Command coordinates the activities of elite units from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. ›
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Bill would put DHS in charge of all civilian networks

"New legislation expected to be introduced today would give the Homeland Security Department broad new authorities and powers over federal civilian networks. The bill, however, does not include a 'kill switch' for private sector networks, as widely reported previously. The legislation, Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010, sponsored by Sen ›
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DHS official stresses cybersecurity is industry's responsibility

"Contractors that fail to live up to security requirements in federal technology contracts should be held accountable, even if the vulnerabilities originated in products or capabilities provided by suppliers, a top Homeland Security Department official said on Tuesday. In most business situations, 'if we have a c ›
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Cybersecurity legislation creates position with budgetary authority

"The Executive Cyberspace Authorities Act of 2010, introduced by Reps. Jim Langevin, (D-R.I.) and Michael McCaul, (R-Texas), creates a National Cyberspace Office led by a White House appointed cyberspace director that would be confirmed by the Senate and have a seat on the National Security Council. The bill would ›