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Hacker charged with selling access to Energy, other networks

Justice says a 23-year-old tried to sell an FBI undercover agent access to an DOE supercomputer for $50,000.

  • Jun 18, 2012

ICANN, again, exposes domain applicants' info

Information that was supposed to be kept private on applicants for new generic top-level domains was inadvertently posted as part of ICANN's Reveal Day.

  • Jun 15, 2012

Bosses and CISOs: What we've got here is failure to communicate

A recent survey suggests CEOs and CISOs don't speak the same language. Maybe it's time for government to set some generally accepted standards for information security.

  • Jun 15, 2012

Tenn. school system hack exposes student, employee data

The hack by a previously unknown group could have exposed some personal data on as many as 110,000 current and former employees and students.

  • Jun 15, 2012

Bills would require warrants for domestic drone surveillance

Companion bills in the House and Senate want Fourth Amendment protections applied to UAV use.

  • Jun 14, 2012

Microsoft issues Flame-resistant certificate updater

The automated updater will flag digital certificates considered untrustworthy to counter the spyware's spoofing tricks.

  • Jun 14, 2012

UMD, Northrop to help train next generation of cybersecurity pros

The University of Maryland and Northrop Grumman are working together to develop a college-level course to train and accredit tomorrow's cybersecurity professionals.

  • Jun 13, 2012

Microsoft warns of zero-day attack

The vulnerability in XML Core Service, being actively exploited, affects all supported versions of Windows and Office 2003 and 2007.

  • Jun 13, 2012

NIST issues guide to fixing the holes in Bluetooth

The updated special publication offers guidance on countering threats to devices using Bluetooth, some versions of which provide only limited security.

  • Jun 13, 2012

IBM development package can boost mobile app security

The new portfolio lets organizations test and manage security for mobile apps across the software development life cycle.

  • Jun 12, 2012

Researchers find 'proof' of Flame-Stuxnet link

Kaspersky Lab says an early Stuxnet version used code from Flame; separate research reveals "world-class" crypto behind Flame's attack.

  • Jun 11, 2012

FedRAMP aims to authorize 3 cloud providers by year's end

The three CSPs applied for accreditation on the day the program officially launched.

  • Jun 07, 2012

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