Don’t get raided by a SWAT team; secure your wireless hub

There are risks to setting up an unsecured wireless hub, apparently including police attacking your home.

Microsoft names 2 alleged leaders of Zeus botnet rings

The company's Digital Crimes Unit, which disabled the botnets after raids in March, will turn over its case to the FBI.

McCain’s retooled Secure IT act still a privacy threat, critics say

The controversial bill has been amended to protect civil liberties, but fails to win over critics who see it as an expansion of military authority and a threat to personal privacy.

Hundreds of thousands at risk as DNSChanger deadline looms

More than 300,000 IP addresses, nearly 70,000 of them in the U.S., are being directed to servers that will go offline July 9. Computers at two federal agencies are still infected.

New twist on Zeus/SpyEye used in massive global fraud scheme

A phishing-spread campaign targets banks and the wealthy, and has attempted to steal anywhere from $78 million to $2 billion this year, security researchers say.

Following the 'kill chain' to fend off cyberattacks

Lockheed Martin's approach is to identify the steps a hacker would need to take to gain access and then prepare for each of them.

Stuxnet shut down by its own kill switch

Code inside the cyber weapon turned off its replication routines June 24, apparently as its creators intended.

Sandia's cyber 'coffee shop' promotes security collaboration

The Cybersecurity Technologies Research Laboratory provide a more open but still secure environment for sharing ideas among government, industry and academia.

Breakthrough? Cyber bills could reach Senate floor in July.

A bipartisan effort to move cybersecurity legislation in the Senate could bring pending bills to the floor in July, though partisan differences still have to be ironed out.

Lockheed's Gooden: Federal IT efforts doing well despite tight budgets

A focus on streamlining systems and delivering constituent services can help agency initiatives succeed in rocky times, a company executive says.

IT industry calls for consistent global cybersecurity policies

An international group of IT industry associations offers a set of principles it says can enable cybersecurity while protecting innovation.

State-sponsored attacks targeting Microsoft zero-day?

Researchers have found new attacks on an unpatched flaw that affects all supported versions of Windows, and that prompted Google's recent warning about state-sponsored attacks.

Topic Resources

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