Once more unto the breach – The Economist (blog)
Moneycontrol.com Once more unto the breachThe Economist (blog)VERISIGN is the Rolls-Royce of internet-security, a byword for integrity and assurance. Alongside its corporate domain-registry business, the internet-services firm offers protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, in which zombie …VeriSign repeatedly hacked since 2010ZDNet AsiaVerisign Must Reveal More about BreachesGovInfoSecurity.comVeriSign, at Web's core, is hacked: [...]
Internet security: Attacks could become more sophisticated – Hindu Business Line
Hindu Business Line Internet security: Attacks could become more sophisticatedHindu Business LineKaspersky, the Russian Internet security firm, warns of still more difficult cyber attacks in 2012. It predicts that hacktivist (hackers with activist zeal) will only increase their attacks on State agencies and businesses in the coming year. … “internet security” – Google News
More connected? We’re more vulnerable, too – Washington Post
More connected? We're more vulnerable, tooWashington PostNear the end of a report on Chinese hackers infiltrating the US Chamber of Commerce, the Wall Street Journal dropped the details that a thermostat at a Chamber-owned property was found communicating with an e-mail address in China and a printer in one …and more »
RSA Shuts Down More Than 500,000 Cyber Attacks Across 185 Countries
Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ – Now in its seventh year operating one of the world’s foremost commercial online anti-fraud services, RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC – News), today announced that its RSA FraudAction(SM) anti- …
More EXOdesk details surface: 10-point touch, custom HTML5 apps (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:More EXOdesk details surface: 10-point touch, custom HTML5 apps — After teasing the EXOdesk themselves in a YouTube video, the company has passed along some details on the “interactive desk” to The Long Climb. In addition to the (perhaps optimistic) rendering you see above …
Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More (Ernesto/TorrentFreak)
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More — Since January 2011, Google has been filtering “piracy-related” terms from its ‘Autocomplete’ and ‘Instant’ services. — Google users searching for terms like “torrent”, “BitTorrent” and “RapidShare” will notice that no suggestions …
Google’s Ron Gorodetzky: Making YouTube more social (Nathan Olivarez-Giles/L.A. Times Tech Blog)
Nathan Olivarez-Giles / L.A. Times Tech Blog:Google’s Ron Gorodetzky: Making YouTube more social — Ron Gorodetzky didn’t aspire to work at Google, or any other tech giant for that matter. — Gorodetzky was a start-up man — having worked at the news-sharing site Digg in its early days before going on to be a co-founder [...]
9/11, A Decade Later — Securing our homeland: Much progress in 10 years, but more to do
Peter King Top Priority Sector: federal_agencies_legislative Image Caption: Rep. Peter King (R-NY) As expected, the media and others are paying closer attention to this anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 than they have in recent years. For whatever reason, 10-year, 25-year, or similarly numbered anniversaries of tragedies garner increased interest and coverage. Homepage position: [...]
More than 26,000 new citizen registrations for Nixle alerts in times of crisis
Top Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response Nixle, LLC, a free provider of informational communication services between government agencies and the communities they serve, received 26,000 new citizen subscribers during two recent natural disasters — Hurricane Irene and the massive Texas wildfires, Nixle said in a Sept. 15 news release. In areas affected by these catastrophes, agencies using [...]
Interested in finding out more about the role of Security Administrator for computer networks?
Yahoo! jobs made brief mention of this role in an article on top jobs, and I’m curious what all is involved in the Security Administrator role. I’ll be doing some google searches for this, but I’m just curious to hear from anyone who might already be in the role about what all is involved in [...]
