Legal Technology Bytes | Tax-Shelter Fraud Defendant Seeks New Trial Over Ineffective Counsel | Digital Evidence and Discovery (DEAD) McAfee Explains The Dubious Math Behind Its 'Unscientific' $1 Trillion Data Loss Claim. Internet Wins Again! We Beat Back Cyber-Snooping Bill. Internet Wins Again! We Beat Back Cyber-Snooping Bill The Internet wins again! The advocates for the cyber-security bill failed to get enough support to proceed to a final vote on the legislation. They won't be reading your email and sharing your personal data -- anytime soon, at least. Will you add your name at right to thank the senators who stood with us? You guys were amazing throughout this fight: Demand Progress members sent 500,000 emails to the Senate and made thousands of phone calls in opposition to the bill.
Just as important was the coalition of senators working on the inside to stand up for our rights. Please add your name at right to make sure they know that we're grateful, and that we'll stand with them -- we'll have to fight this battle again sometime soon. PETITION TO PRO-PRIVACY SENATORS: We thank you for your hard work to protect our privacy and Internet freedom. Add your name at right to thank the senators who stood up for privacy and Internet freedom. Cyber war games on tap for Wright-Patt - Dayton Business Journal. iStockphoto The U.S. military’s latest batch of cyber defenders will test its talent in war games at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The U.S. military’s latest batch of cyber defenders will test its talent in war games at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. On Wednesday, more than three dozen cadets and midshipmen from Air Force, Army and Navy ROTC detachments will be split into two teams competing in a “Hackfest” exercise.
During the large-scale cyber warfare event, which runs through the end of this week, the future military officers will use defense tactics they learned this summer at the Air Force Institute of Technology. Participants in this year’s Cyber Security Boot Camp at AFIT come from 30 different schools and 22 states. AFIT touts it cyber security program as the nation’s only one for ROTC cadets that combines cyber warfare education, hands-on training, research internships with Air Force scientist and engineers, and leadership development activities. Campaign 2012 » Defense Update: Congress Drops Cybersecurity Ball. U.S. Air Force personnel monitor cybersecurity threats from the Air Force Space Command Network Operations & Security Center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado July 20, 2010 (Rick Wilking/Courtesy Reuters).
Congress left Capitol Hill for its summer vacation without passing a measure that would protect U.S. infrastructure from foreign attacks via the Internet despite concerns expressed from the presidential campaign trail. A bill that would have established security standards to prevent large-scale cyber attacks (WashPost) on the U.S. critical infrastructure failed to draw enough votes in the Senate to overcome a GOP filibuster last week, in spite of support from current and former homeland security, intelligence, and defense leaders from both sides of the aisle.
The White House is now said to be considering an executive order (TheHill) to enact some of the protections without help from Congress. Suggested Other Reading: – Gayle S. Putrich, Contributing Editor. How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking | Gadget Lab. In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely erase all of the data on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook. In many ways, this was all my fault. My accounts were daisy-chained together. Had I been regularly backing up the data on my MacBook, I wouldn’t have had to worry about losing more than a year’s worth of photos, covering the entire lifespan of my daughter, or documents and e-mails that I had stored in no other location.
Those security lapses are my fault, and I deeply, deeply regret them. But what happened to me exposes vital security flaws in several customer service systems, most notably Apple’s and Amazon’s. This isn’t just my problem. I realized something was wrong at about 5 p.m. on Friday. Lulz. “Wait. “Mr. The Security & Privacy Digest. Blogs. Posted by: Arunachalam Sam, Group IT/IS Manager, Mulitex Group Every day I see stories on the benefits the cloud brings to businesses. From improved flexibility and scalability to resource savings, the cloud’s business value is clear. Yet, all that promise is irrelevant if a cloud provider’s promises aren’t backed up with a commitment to security and privacy and an adherence to internationally recognized standards.
Fortunately for my company, Mulitex Group, we found the security and privacy commitment we needed in Microsoft Office 365 and are now reaping the benefits. We are headquartered in Hong Kong, with offices in the U.S., South America, Bangladesh, Vietnam and India. Focused on garment manufacturing, trading and real estate investment, Mulitex manages assets worth over US$700 million. With our company facing rapid growth we needed a cloud solution that could help our workers access data securely from a variety of devices in multiple locations.
Information Security News. Cities / Visakhapatnam : Full-fledged cyber police station under consideration, says CP. A Cyber Crime Investigation Cell was inaugurated by Police Commissioner J. Purnachandra Rao at the Two Town Police Station here on Saturday. Speaking to the media after the inauguration, Mr. Purnachandra Rao said that the Cyber Cell was functioning from the premises of the Central Crime Station (CCS) during the last couple of years. He, however, said that the proposal for setting up of a full-fledged Cyber Crime Police Station was still under consideration. He recalled how an Intermediate student had lost Rs.1 lakh in an online fraud conducted in the name of a ‘friendship club’ about two years ago. The boy had taken the money from his home without the knowledge of his parents and put it in the online account in phases. The operators of the club were finally traced in Delhi by the Cyber Crime police.
Threats through e-mails, threats and indecent calls on cell phones and ATM frauds were also detected. Mr. Additional Deputy Commissioners of Police Atchuta Rao (administration), Mohd. Mobile apps are new cyber crime attack vector. RSA identifies and manages malicious mobile apps that infiltrate online app stores. Mobile apps have emerged as a new cyber crime attack vector for phishing and malware, says RSA, the security division of EMC. To combat this issue, the company has introduced the RSA FraudAction Anti Rogue App Service that can identify and take action against rouge mobile apps that are out to serve up malware or phishing attacks.
The release of this application is well timed as a report from TrendMicro TrendLabs indicates that the number of malicious Android apps jumped over 20,000 in July 2012. RSA also notes an April 2012 report from Goode Intelligence that shows about 71 percent of organisations allow their employees to use their own mobile devices for company business. RSA's new managed service has been designed to monitor all major app stores for all mobile operating systems. Proactive management.