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US probing cyber attacks on gas pipelines
A campaign of cyber attacks has been targeting US natural gas pipeline operators, officials acknowledged, raising security concerns about vulnerabilities in key infrastructure. The Department of Homeland Security “has been working since March 2012 with critical infrastructure owners and operators in the oil and natural gas sector to address a series of cyber intrusions targeting [...]
Cyberwarfare Market Worth $15.9 Billion
Analysis indicates that the cyberwarfare market will reach a value of $15.9bn in 2012, as governments around the world continue to invest in a range of cyberwarfare systems and solutions designed to offer protection against a wide range of cyber threats including protecting information and infrastructure from hostile states, as well as non-state actors both [...]
Raytheon Acquires Cybersecurity Firm Pikewerks
Raytheon Company has acquired Pikewerks Corporation, a privately held company, to further extend Raytheon’s capabilities to defend against sophisticated cybersecurity threats facing customers in the intelligence community, Department of Defense and commercial organizations. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction will not materially impact Raytheon’s total company sales or earnings per share for [...]
Senator calls for special cybersecurity panel
Veteran US Senator John McCain on Wednesday urged the creation of a special Senate committee on cybersecurity and electronic intelligence leaks to cut through legislative delays to crafting a US response. McCain requested the move in a letter to Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell citing a need [...]
Active self-defense strategy best deterrent against cyberattacks
With the threats of cybercrime, cyberterrorism and cyberwarfare looming over our hyper-connected world, the best defense for the U.S. might be a good offense, says new research by a University of Illinois expert in technology and legal issues. Law professor Jay P. Kesan warns that an active self-defense regime, which he terms “mitigative counterstriking,” is [...]
LulzSec hacker group says Internet rampage over
Lulz Security hacker group said Saturday that it has ended an Internet rampage that included cyberattacks on videogame companies, police and even the CIA’s website. “For the past 50 days, we’ve been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could,” the group said [...]
Germany’s Cyber Defense Center Goes Fully Online
Germany’s new Cyber Defense Center was officially opened by Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich at a ceremony in Bonn on Thursday. The Center, which has actually been operating with a small staff since April, is tasked with spotting and evaluating cyber-attacks and with developing counter-strategies. Most importantly, Friedrich said at the ceremony on Thursday, that means [...]
Lynn outlines new cybersecurity effort
Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III outlined a pilot program here June 16 in which the government helps the defense industry in safeguarding the information their computer systems hold. In a keynote address at the Center for Strategic Decision Research’s 28th International Workshop on Global Security, Mr. Lynn described Defense Industrial Base Cyber Pilot [...]
South Korea to step up security against cyber attacks
South Korea said Tuesday it will step up IT security within the government to fend off cyber attacks from North Korea, which it has accused of mounting a series of strikes in recent years. Under a presidential decree, 45 officials at 23 government agencies will be appointed to take charge of computer security and emergency [...]
