Cybersecurity: Progress Made but Challenges Remain in Defining and Coordinating the Comprehensive National Initiative, GAO-10-338, March 05, 2010 Recovery Act: California’s Use of Funds and Efforts to Ensure Accountability, GAO-10-467T, March 05, 2010 Food Safety: FDA Should Strengthen Its Oversight of Food Ingredients Determined to Be Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS), GAO-10-246, February 03, 2010 Continue Reading
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NetWitness Discovers Massive ZeuS Compromise
News release: “NetWitness, the world leader in advanced persistent threat detection and real-time network forensics, announced today that its analysts have discovered a dangerous new ZeuS botnet affecting 75,000 systems in 2,500 organizations around the world. The newly-discovered infestation, dubbed the “Kneber botnet” after the username linking the infected systems worldwide, gathers login credentials to… Continue Reading
Security Labs Report Jul 2009-Dec 2009 Recap
Security Labs Report Jul 2009-Dec 2009 Recap – “This report has been prepared by the M86 Security Labs team. It covers key trends and developments in Internet security over the last six months, as observed by the security analysts at M86 Security Labs. M86 Security Labs is a group of security analysts specializing in Email… Continue Reading
Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, Director of National Intelligence, February 2, 2010 “The national security of the United States, our economic prosperity, and the daily functioning of our government are dependent on a dynamic public and private information infrastructure, which includes telecommunications,… Continue Reading
Phishing Activity Trends Report, 3rd Quarter / 2009
The quarterly APWG (AntiPhishing Working Group) Phishing Activity Trends Report analyzes phishing attacks reported to the APWG by its member companies, its Global Research Partners, through the organizations website and by email submissions. APWG also measures the evolution, proliferation and propagation of crimeware drawing from the research of our member companies. In the last half… Continue Reading
Navy Establishes U.S. Fleet Cyber Command at Fort Meade, MD
OPNAV NOTICE 5400, January 11, 2010: “Action will establish U. S. Fleet Cyber Command as an echelon II command to serve as the Navy Component Commander to United States Cyber Command upon its establishment. Interim reporting will be to United States Strategic Command. Command will provide for operational employment of the Navy’s cyber, network operations,… Continue Reading
NIST: Draft Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules
DRAFT Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules (Revised Draft): “The Revised Draft FIPS 140-3 is the second public draft of NISTs proposed revision of FIPS 140-2. The Revised Draft was developed using the comments received on the first public draft, which was posted for public review and comment on July 13, 2007, and the FIPS 140-3… Continue Reading
Cybersafety Booklet for Parents and Kids Now Available
News release: “A new booklet released today by the Federal Trade Commission and other government agencies helps parents and teachers steer kids safely through the online and mobile phone worlds. Net Cetera: Chatting with Kids About Being Online was unveiled…by FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and Federal Communications Commission Chairman… Continue Reading
Report – Lost Laptops: More Expensive Than You Think
“New research quantifies the primary factors driving the cost of a lost or stolen laptop. Learn from Intel ITs best practices.” “To better understand the range of potential outcomes, the Ponemon Institute compiled data on 138 instances of laptop loss or theft within a 12-month period by the employees, temporary employees, and subcontractors of a… Continue Reading
DHS OIG: More Effective Web Security Management Needed
OIG-09-101 – Vulnerabilities Highlight the Need for More Effective Web Security Management (Redacted), September 2009 (PDF, 21 pages) “The Department of Homeland Securitys (DHS) public-facing websites present a highly accessible point of entry and attack to its information resources. These websites are useful in providing DHS and the public with access to information and services,… Continue Reading
Study Says Employers Increasingly Monitoring Outbound Emails
National Law Journal: “The economy has employers extra jittery about company secrets getting out, so nervous that they’re hiring staff just to monitor outbound e-mails. That’s the conclusion of a recent study by Proofpoint, an Internet security and data loss prevention company, which found that 38 percent of large U.S. employers are monitoring outbound e-mail… Continue Reading
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: “October marks the sixth annual National Cybersecurity Awareness Month sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security. The theme for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2009 is Our Shared Responsibility to reinforce the message that all computer users, not just industry and government, have a responsibility to practice good cyber hygiene and to… Continue Reading
