NSA to Senate: '3 Steps Should Thwart 80% of Attacks'

Computer systems with proper security and network controls should be able to withstand about 80 percent of known cyberattacks, according to a senior National Security Agency official. Richard Schaeffer Jr., the NSA’s information assurance director, told the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Terrorism...

Security Pros Are Focused on the Wrong Threats

From The New York Times Riva Richmond Corporate information technology departments are prioritizing the wrong threats to their computer systems, focusing on old problems and leaving their companies open to a raft of new cyberattacks targeting sensitive customer and corporate information. That is...

DDoS Attacks Cripple U.S. and Korean Sites

From The New York Times Choe Sang-Hun Cyberattacks that have crippled the Web sites of several major American and South Korean government agencies since the July 4th holiday weekend appear to have been launched by a hostile group or government, South Korea’s main government spy agency said on...

Defense Industrial Base information-sharing program a good start

The recent flood of stories on attacks against the electrical grid, various government agencies and other portions of the critical infrastructure has renewed the calls for improvements in federal cybersecurity and, especially, information sharing between the government and the private sector on...