House GOP Task Force Favors Private Incentives, Fewer Regulations for Cybersecurity

A House GOP task force called on Congress this week to adopt voluntary incentives – rather than federal requirements – to get private companies to further develop their cyber security. The GOP proposes a combination of tax credits, grants, insurance and rules set by non-regulatory agencies as a w...

NeXpose 5.0 vulnerability management solution Released by Rapid7

NeXpose 5.0 vulnerability management solution Released by Rapid7 Nexpose proactively supports the entire vulnerability management lifecycle, including discovery, detection, verification, risk classification, impact analysis, reporting and mitigation. This gives organizations immediate insight int...

Securing Education Networks: Lessons Learned

Join Paul Roberts, Threatpost editor, and our panel of experts as they discuss security regulations, concerns and challenges within the Education market. Along with Paul, Steve Mazzola of Belmont Public Schools, David Escalante of Boston College and Josh Corman of the 451 Group provide hands-on...

Microsoft BlueHat Security contest - Mega Prize $250,000

Microsoft BlueHat Security contest - Mega Prize $250,000 Microsoft today launched a $250,000 contest for researchers who develop defensive security technologies that deal with entire classes of exploits. The total cash awards for Microsoft's "BlueHat Prize" contest easily dwarfs any bug bounty...

U.S. Playing Catch Up in Security for Contactless Devices

AMHERST, MASS.– The U.S. may boast the world’s largest economy, richest technology companies and a lion’s share of its top research universities. But when it comes to the subject of security of RFID Radio Frequency ID and other contactless technologies, America is still playing catch-up. The U.S....

September, 2000: NGO Strategy Memo Leaked

Put together a list of Sony’s missteps, and one theme comes to the fore: “control.” Indeed, the company that proved so adept at anticipating the needs of consumers and producing products to match, has stumbled the worst when it tries to dictate, rather than listen. That was the case with Sony’s...

Restaurant Chain is First Fined Under Massachusetts Data Breach Law

UPDATE: A Massachusetts restaurant chain was the first company fined under the state’s toughest in the nation data breach law and will have to pay $110,000 in penalties, according to a statement by the Massachusetts Attorney General. The Briar Group LLC entered into a settlement with Massachsuett...

DHS Needs to Change Rules to Recruit Hackers into U.S. Security Agencies !

Members of the hacker community are leery of working with the government and sharing their skills, if it means navigating through outdated regulations and being viewed as potential security risks. Hackers and other computer experts willing to collaborate with the Department of Homeland Security t...

Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) Website Hacked !

The Maldives National Defence Force MNDF has confirmed that its website was hacked last night by an unknown attacker. Major Abdul Raheem today confirmed that the MNDF was made aware of an attack this morning after checking its website. "Currently our website is down, and we are trying to fix it,"...

China Introduces New Laws to Combat Cyber Hacking

China is taking decisive action against computer hacking with a new law set to govern the sentencing of hackers and other internet offenders. This initiative, announced by the Ministry of Public Security, aims to enhance cybersecurity in response to the growing threat of cybercrime. Lawmakers are...

FBI Wants to Mandate Surveillance Backdoors

Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone. Read the full article...

Malwarians at the Gate: Banks, Businesses and ACH Fraud

Banks and their customers are on opposite ends of a feud over which is responsible when online banking accounts get hacked and pillaged. But where does the fault really lie? Banks and their customers are on opposite ends of a feud over which is responsible when online banking accounts get hacked...

New Controls Needed to Improve Privacy

WASHINGTON, D.C.– As the speed of technological innovation has continued to increase in recent years, it has completely outpaced the ability of companies, consumers and regulators to keep up with the ways in which those changes affect online privacy, experts say, and in order to make real...

MDVA-2009:250 : wireless-regdb

This updates the wireless regulatory domain database to 2009-11-10 in order to follow the wireless regulations in the world. For Mandriva 2010.0: - add support for Aruba AW - update United States US rules for 5600 MHz - 5650 MHz For Mandriva 2009.1: - enable 5GHz band for Thailand TH - updates to...

Health Care Breach Notification Mandated

From SC Magazine Angela Moscaritolo Two new rules were created this week requiring health care organizations, and other entities that interact with personal health records PHRs, to issue notifications in the event of a data breach. The key rule, issued Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Health a...

Private sector relations should be job one for cyber security czar

Whoever is brave enough to fill the soon-to-be-created cybersecurity czar position will find a rather large pile of challenges waiting. Among them will be dealing with a confused and argumentative Congress, doing a full-scale assessment of the country’s critical infrastructure and reaching out to...

Privacy problems in the cloud

With the economy cratering, staffs and budgets being cut and resources scarce, cloud computing has quickly become the prettiest girl at the prom. IT managers love its convenience and power and accounting departments are quite fond of its cost efficiencies. But what of security and privacy? Where ...

SSH (SSF Derivative) Detection

According to its banner, the remote SSH server is the SSF derivative. SSF had been written to be compliant with restrictive laws on cryptography in some European countries, France especially. These regulations have been softened and OpenSSH received a formal authorisation from the French...