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Nextgov: “Malicious code Russians reportedly used to jimmy open a White House network and malware Chinese hackers reportedly used to rupture insurer Anthem’s network were similar — and free, according to new research…The Anthem hackers compromised the Social Security numbers and other personal information of about 80 million customers. The White House hackers infiltrated an …
Via Digital Guardian – “The research firm Binaryedge says it found more than a petabyte of data stored in high performance databases like MongoDB is exposed to the public Internet.”
NYT and ProPublica investigative reports: “The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T. While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, newly …
August 14, 2015 Federal Register Notice: “The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Jeh Johnson, tasked his Homeland Security Advisory Council to establish a subcommittee entitled Cybersecurity Subcommittee on August 6, 2015. The Cybersecurity Subcommittee will provide findings and recommendations to the Homeland Security Advisory Council on best practices sourced from industry, state …
“In this bleak, relentlessly morbid talk, James Mickens will describe why making computers secure is an intrinsically impossible task. He will explain why no programming language makes it easy to write secure code. He will then discuss why cloud computing is a black hole for privacy, and only useful for people who want to fill …
Via Atlantic Council – New Twists in Russia’s Cyber Campaign Against NATO and Its Members By Sam Jones, Financial Times: “Russia’s aggressive actions in cyber space are all carefully designed to fall short of warranting any kind of serious military or aggressive response. One of Moscow’s new favoured tactics is to arm crime syndicates with …
ComputerWorld 29th Annual Report It Salary Survey: “After years of tight budgets, employers are boosting pay to attract and retain hot IT talent. Our survey of more than 4,800 tech workers reveals who’s getting the cash — and how you can too..Topics include: Cash Is Back!; IT Pay All the Numbers; Job Seekers Call the …
TrendMicro Report, Kyle Wilhoit and Stephen Hilt Forward-Looking Threat Research (FTR) Team: “…In places like the United States (US) and others worldwide, gas stations are primarily privately owned. Some business owners can be described as independent, tech-savvy, and modern. Gas retailers are aware of the risks tied to their business and so heavily invest in …
Behind the Cyberlocker Door: A Report on How Shadowy Cyberlocker Businesses Use Credit Card Companies to Make Millions A NetNames Report for Digital Citizens Alliance “As a society, we can no longer shrug off content theft as the isolated activity of high school and college students who want to watch a movie or listen to …
Akana Report (reg reqd) – “The front lines of information security risk management evolve in parallel with the dominant technologies in common use. The emergence of the Web brought Web-based threats and resulting countermeasures. The rise of SQL databases brought SQL injection and its mitigations. Now, we have the increasing usage and business importance of …
Cybersecurity Sprint Results July 2015 – Executive Office of the President.
FCW.com -“At long last, vendors can size up the official requirements for protecting the identities of 21.5 million affected by the Office of Personnel Management background check breach. The full load could be more like 28 million, and whoever wins will have to let the feds inside their own databases. Quotations are due Aug. 14 …
