Markey: GRID Act Passage Long Overdue

Representative Ed Markey D-MA is urging the Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Fred Upton R-MI, to take immediate action toward passing the Grid Reliability and Infrastructure Defense GRID Act, which Markey calls a bipartisan bill aimed at hardening the nation’s electrical gr...

Capitol Hill Rhetoric Takes Aim at Wrong Cybersecurity Targets

Defense secretary Leon Panetta couldn’t resist, could he? He couldn’t fight the urge to dig deep into the information security cliché handbook and yank out that old chestnut about a Cyber Pearl Harbor. Seriously, is there a more cringe-inducing, FUD-filled phrase than Cyber Pearl Harbor? Never mi...

Did The September 11th Attacks Blind Us To A Digital Pearl Harbor?

It was December 8, 2000 – the waning days of the Clinton Administration. Richard Clarke, a member of President Clinton’s National Security Council, was addressing attendees at SafeNet 2000, a conference sponsored by Microsoft Corp. that brought together computer security experts from around the...

Gene Simmons v. Anonymous : FBI raids Gig Harbor home in search of hacker who targeted Kiss frontman

Gene Simmons v. Anonymous : FBI raids Gig Harbor home in search of hacker who targeted Kiss frontman The FBI has raided the Gig Harbor home of an alleged hacker suspected in a cyber attack against Kiss bassist Gene Simmons. The October attack purportedly conducted by Anonymous – the same hacker...

Report: U.S. Is Hyping Threat Of Cyber War

A new report suggests that lawmakers, policy wonks and corporations are sensationalizing the risk of cyber attacks far beyond the actual threat. The inflation of cyber security threat, like the inflation of the threat of Communism during the Cold War, or terrorist acts in the wake of the 9/11...

Google Attack Was Tip of the Iceberg

The recent disclosure by Google, Adobe and other companies that their networks had been thoroughly compromised by attackers who may have been after their source code has prompted a tremendous amount of discourse both in the security community and in the general public about the political and...

Will there be a digital Pearl Harbor?

Will there be one major catastrophe, or just smaller disasters? Panelists discuss what security issues we should be watching out for, where the threat might come from, and the difficulties in predicting the unpredictable. Via ZDNet...