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Statement for the Record – Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, March 12, 2013 “This year, in both content and organization, this statement illustrates how quickly and radically the worldand our threat environmentare changing. This environment is demanding reevaluations of the …
“The Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare, written at the invitation of the Centre by an independent International Group of Experts, is the result of a three-year effort to examine how extant international law norms apply to this new form of warfare. The Tallinn Manual pays particular attention to the jus …
Videos and articles for hacked site recovery – Posted by Maile Ohye, Developer Programs Tech Lead: “We created a new Help for hacked sites informational series to help all levels of site owners understand how they can recover their hacked site. The series includes over a dozen articles and 80+ minutes of informational videos – …
Cybersecurity – A Better Defined and Implemented National Strategy Is Needed to Address Persistent Challenges, GAO-13-462T, Mar 7, 2013 Defense Technology Development – Technology Transition Programs Support Military Users, but Opportunities Exist to Improve Measurement of Outcomes, GAO-13-286, Mar 7, 2012 National Defense – Department of Defense’s Waiver of Competitive Prototyping Requirement for Combat Rescue …
CRS – The 2013 Cybersecurity Executive Order: Overview and Considerations for Congress, March 1, 2013 “The federal role in cybersecurity has been a topic of discussion and debate for over a decade. Despite significant legislative efforts in the 112th Congress, no major legislation on this topic has been enacted since the Federal Information Security Management …
Identity Theft Tops List for 13th Consecutive Year in Report of National Consumer Complaints “Identity theft is once more the top complaint received by the Federal Trade Commission, which has released its 2012 annual report of complaints. 2012 marks the first year in which the FTC received more than 2 million complaints overall, and 369,132, …
News release: “The Mandiant® Intelligence Center released a detailed report exposing a multi-year espionage campaign by one of the largest Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups. The report, APT1: Exposing One of Chinas Cyber Espionage Units, provides evidence linking one group, designated by Mandiant as APT1, to Chinas 2nd Bureau of the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) …
By Dan Mcwhorter on February 18, 2013 -“Today, The Mandiant® Intelligence Center™ released an unprecedented report exposing APT1′s multi-year, enterprise-scale computer espionage campaign. APT1 is one of dozens of threat groups Mandiant tracks around the world and we consider it to be one of the most prolific in terms of the sheer quantity of information it has stolen. Highlights …
Security Engineering by Ross Anderson The Book: “All chapters from the second edition now available free online.”
News release: “More than one in four (28 percent) of respondents surveyed report their organizations were the victims of at least one cyberattack in the past year; nine percent report multiple breaches and an alarming 17 percent were not confident that their organizations could even detect an attack, according to a Deloitte Tech Trends poll …
Executive Order – Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, February 12, 2013. “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. Repeated cyber intrusions into critical infrastructure demonstrate the need for improved cybersecurity. The cyber threat to …
Description of Civil Liberties and Privacy Protections in the updated NCTC Guidelines, January 2013, Office of the Director of National Intelligence. “In March, 2012, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the Attorney General, and the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) approved the updated Guidelines for Access, Retention, Use, and Dissemination by the National …
