WASHINGTON DC - The National Institute of Standards and Technology released its draft cybersecurity framework for private companies and infrastructure networks on Tuesday. These standards are part of an executive order that President Obama proposed in February. The aim of NIST's framework (PDF) is to create guidelines that companies can use to beef up their
KALAMAZOO ? There?s a scene in the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," where Butch gets ready for a knife fight. He asks his advisory if there are any rules. When told no, Butch kicks the man in the groin. A similar scene played out this week when the National Science Foundation awarded a
PARIS, France - The United States may be in hot water with France following reports that the NSA snooped on a large number of French citizens. A report published Monday by French paper Le Monde revealed the spying activities on the part of the National Security Agency, based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor
ZURICH, Switzerland - Taking a page from the way banks and web sites use two-factor authentication to log-in, IBM announced NFC, or near-field communications, to make mobile eCommerce more secure. NFC wireless links can be used to let people exchange contact information by bumping phones together or to pay for products by waving a phone
SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time since Akamai started data-gathering in 2008, Microsoft-DS - aka Port 445 - is not the hackers' primary path of attack, Akamai's latest "State of the Internet" report revealed Wednesday. Instead, hackers have moved to targeting Web users through HTTP Port 80 and SSL (HTTPS) port 443. That hackers
WASHINGTON DC - After eight years as the longest-serving leader of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith Alexander will be making his exit sometime in spring 2014, according to a report. Alexander, who has been in charge of the NSA since August 2005, is expected to depart the agency in March or April of next
SAN FRANCISCO - Adobe announced last week that it has been the target of a major security breach in which sensitive and personal data about millions of its customers have been put at risk. Brad Arkin, senior director of security for Adobe products and services, explained in a blog post reported by CNET News.Com that
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury has indicted 13 alleged members of the hacktivist collective Anonymous in connection with online attacks targeting financial institutions, trade groups, and government entities. The 28-page indictment, unsealed Thursday in a U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., charge the defendants with conspiracy to intentionally cause damage to a protected
WASHINGTON DC - Just because the National Security Agency hasn't cracked the anonymizing service Tor doesn't mean that people who use the service are free from surveillance. The NSA has been able to use ad networks like Google's, and The Onion Router's own entry and exit nodes on the Internet, to follow some Tor users,
LONDON, United Kingdom - Banks have been ordered by the Financial Policy Committee to devise a way of toughening up their cyber defenses in the next six months, because of the growing threat of cyber attacks. Minutes of last month's FPC meeting involving the Bank of England revealed that the Treasury is already working on