300 Military and Government Accounts leaked by P0keu

300 Military and Government Accounts leaked by P0keu In a tweet , P0keu posted a link to PasteBin which appears to be e-mail accounts and passwords of 300 military and government accounts used the same password as their actual e-mails, then the contents of their e-mail account will also be expose...

CNAIPIC - Italian government hacked by #Antisec , Various Confidential documents leaked

CNAIPIC - Italian government hacked by Antisec , Various Confidential documents leaked CNAIPIC - Centro Nazionale Anticrimine Informatico per la Protezione delle Infrastrutture Critiche /National Anti-Crime Computer Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection hacked by Anonymous Hackers for...

President Obama release National Strategy for Counter terrorism

President Obama release National Strategy for Counter terrorism Today President Obama's release National Strategy for Counterterrorism, which was presented by John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism in a speech at SAIS named "Ensuring al-Qa'ida's Demise...

DHS Unveils Effort to Focus on Software Security

The long string of attacks against popular Web sites, high-profile companies such as Sony, and government networks has brought the problem of common and easily exploitable vulnerabilities into the public eye, and the Department of Homeland Security today is unveiling a new effort to help address...

DHS Cybersecurity Chief Reitinger Stepping Down

Philip Reitinger, the top information security official at the Department of Homeland Security, is going to step down from his post at the beginning of June, just a couple of weeks after the Obama administration laid out the details of its latest strategy to improve the country’s online defenses...

U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites By Mistake !

The US Government has yet again shuttered several domain names this week. The Department of Justice and Homeland Security's ICE office proudly announced that they had seized domains related to counterfeit goods and child pornography. What they failed to mention, however, is that one of the target...

Cyber crime trail leads to Winona State students !

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigation dubbed "Operation eMule" has led federal agents to a pair of 22-year-old foreign-exchange students in Winona who are suspected to be part of a sophisticated cyber crime ring based in Vietnam that has been misusing the identities of countless...

Week in Security: More Wikileaks Fallout, Cybersecurity Buzz and Browser Updates

The words “cyber war” were in the headlines this week, as controversy and debate about the leak of confidential diplomatic cables by Wikileaks reached a fever pitch. As speculation turned to the fallout from the ongoing publication of documents, the U.S. government laid the groundwork to prevent...

DHS, NIST, Financial Services Group Form Security Research Partnership

As the finger-pointing and name-calling surrounding the WikiLeaks issue continue in Washington, the White House this week facilitated a cooperative agreement among several key public and private organizations designed to spur joint information security research projects. On Tuesday, the Obama...

WikiLeaks.org Down After EveryDNS.net Termination Due to DDOS Attacks

WikiLeaks' main website became inaccessible on Friday via its WikiLeaks.org domain after EveryDNS.net, a subsidiary of Dynamic Network Services, terminated its domain name service. EveryDNS.net terminated the WikiLeaks.org domain due to repeated Distributed Denial of Service DDOS attacks. These...

New Bill Would Give DHS New Power Over Private Networks

The latest in what has become a long line of legislation introduced in the House and the Senate in 2010 that attempts to address the country’s computer security shortcomings is a new measure brought forward by Rep. Bennie Thompson that would, among other things, allow the to force certain private...

New Rules Enable Military Assistance During Domestic Cyber-Attacks

The Obama administration has revised federal policy, enabling the military to assist during a domestic cyber-attack, reported the New York Times on Oct. 21. Typically, the military cannot deploy units within the country's borders, except for natural disasters, and even then, a presidential order ...

Inspector General Finds Vulns at US-CERT

A scan of IT systems at US-CERT, the Homeland Security Department’s primary operational cybersecurity agency, found hundreds of vulnerabilities that could allow someone to compromise data, according to a recent inspector general’s report. Read the full article. Government Computer News...

Active Directory Install at DHS Questioned

An audit of the Department of Homeland Security’s Microsoft Windows Active Directory at its headquarters revealed that its implementation failed to fully comply with the department’s security guidelines, and no mechanism was in place to ensure its level of security, DHS’s inspector general said i...

Audit Shows Flaws in Coast Guard System

Flaws in the configuration and security of the U.S. Coast Guard IT system caused a material weakness in the Department of Homeland Security financial system, according to a recent audit. Read the full article. Dark Reading...

Biometrics' Researchers Say Follow Your Nose

Forget iris and fingerprint scans — scanning noses could be a quicker and easier way to verify a person’s identity, according to scientists at the University of Bath. With worries about illegal immigration and identity theft, authorities are increasingly looking to using an individual’s physical...

Top Guns of U.S. Security To Speak at RSA

The Obama administration gets a chance to demonstrate its cybersecurity leadership as three top guns from the executive branch – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt and FBI Director Robert Mueller – address the RSA conference in San...

Senator Joe Lieberman Wants Head of Cyber Security to Reside in White House

Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Conneticut is set to propose a bill that would make the lead security post for the U.S. government a Presidential nominee approved by the Senate and accountable to Congress. This is in sharp contrast to the proposed hierarchy laid out by the ranking Republican...

DHS Set to Announce Cyber Merger

In what could mark a major improvement to the nation’s ability to defend itself against cyber threats, the Department of Homeland Security will announce Friday that the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team will merge with the National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications. The two groups — n...

NSA to Run $1.5B Security Data Center

The National Security Agency is going to run a planned $1.5 billion data center in Utah that will serve as a support center for the government’s information security programs. The exact mission and function of the data center is a bit unclear, however. The NSA’s core mission is to collect and...