"We very much hope that the Chinese government respects our decision, though we are well aware that it could at any time block access to our services," says Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond.
Alex Cox, Research Consultant and Principal Analyst, NetWitness
Alex Cox, a research consultant and principal analyst at the IT security firm NetWitness, discovered last month the Kneber botnet, a variant of the ZueS Trojan that he says has infested 75,000 systems in 2,500 corporate and governmental organizations...
Malicious criminal attacks have doubled, and the average cost of a data breach has increased to $204 per compromised record.
These are the headlines from the 5th annual "Cost of a Data Breach" study by the Ponemon Institute.
How prepared is the financial services industry in the event of a cyber attack?
The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), a national industry forum, will conduct Cyber Attack Against Payment Processes (CAPP), an exercise to measure the ability of financial institutions, payment...
The breach is the latest of many cyber assaults that have plagued the space agency, which experienced 1,200 security incidents in 2007 and 2008, resulting in the installation of malicious code and unauthorized access to sensitive information.
Public and private sector organizations alike are charged with protecting critical data and responding to incidents that put information security at risk. In this session, David Matthews, deputy CISO for the City of Seattle, reveals:
Data protection challenges;
Tools to meet those challenges;
How to respond to...
Organizations understand the need for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in the face of natural, man-made and pandemic disasters. But what about Business Resiliency, which brings together multiple disciplines to ensure minimal disruption in the wake of a disaster?
Register for this webinar to learn:
How...
This past Independence Day weekend, hackers targeted government and business websites in the United States and South Korea, causing confusion for network managers to differentiate between legitimate and illegitimate web traffic.
Security related incidents such as these have become not only more numerous and...
The Heartland data breach and July's denial of service (DDoS) attacks against government agencies are among the biggest information security incidents of the year. And they've pushed incident response into the spotlight.
Peter Allor is on the Steering Committee of the Forum for Incident Response and Security Teams...
Contractor is said to blame weak password protection, but one congressman - Rep. Spencer Bachus, R. Ala - suggests attacks may have been more sophisticated.
The Heartland data breach and July's denial of service (DDoS) attacks against government agencies are among the biggest information security incidents of the year. And they've pushed incident response into the spotlight.
Peter Allor is on the Steering Committee of the Forum for Incident Response and Security Teams...
A veteran cybersecurity pro, Shane Sims shares his insights on trends he's seeing as cybercrime continues to hit all companies, including financial institutions. Sims is currently a Director in the Forensic Services practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he provides investigative, forensic technology, security...
Defending against attacks on federal IT systems along with making them more efficient are behind the increased spending for fiscal 2010, which begins Oct. 1.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson says computers in his office have been hacked at least three times one of them the Florida Democrat characterized as "serious" over the past two months, and he believes the breach came from China.
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