LONDON, United Kingdom - Banks have been ordered by the Financial Policy Committee to devise a way of toughening up their cyber defenses in the next six months, because of the growing threat of cyber attacks. Minutes of last month's FPC meeting involving the Bank of England revealed that the Treasury is already working on
SAN FRANCISCO - Attack code that exploits an unpatched vulnerability found in all supported versions of Internet Explorer has been released into the wild. This means that cyberattacks could now surge and affect Internet Explorer users. Known as CVE-2013-3893, the exploit was integrated Monday into Rapid7's open-source Metasploit penetration testing tool. By putting the exploit
DEARBORN ? Attack paths and mitigations before dinner and Data Breach Investigations Report during are on tap Oct. 16 for the ISACA Detroit Chapter Meeting. J. Wolfgang Goerlich will address attack paths and mitigations, while Michael Betts will explain the results of the Verizon 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report. WHEN October 16 4:30 PM-7:45 PM
SAN FRANCISCO - John McAfee has unveiled plans for a new product, called the D-Central, that he promises will keep users safe from the prying eyes of government. The D-Central will be a hardware product that will cost less than $100, McAfee said in an interview with CNET News.Com at the San Jose McEnery Convention
LONDON - The UK government is planning to recruit hundreds of computer specialists to defend core infrastructure against cyberthreats, Conservative Defence Secretary Philip Hammond announced. Speaking at the annual Conservative party conference, Hammond said the United Kingdom was dedicating additional resources and funds to building a strong cyber intelligence and surveillance network, according to Reuters.
SAN FRANCISCO - Teenagers in California worried that their online posts might jeopardize their future opportunities have gained a measure of recourse in the form of an online "eraser button." Legislation signed Monday by Gov. Jerry Brown will require Web sites, apps, and online services geared toward minors to offer, by 2015, the option of
SAN FRANCISCO - An illegal service that sells personal data on any U.S. resident, which can then be used for identity theft, hacked into servers at several major data aggregators including LexisNexis and Dun & Bradstreet, according to a report. The service's customers have, the report said, "spent hundreds of thousands of dollars looking up
WASHINGON DC - Several US senators are trying to clamp down on the activities of the National Security Agency through a new bill that would curb the NSA?s data gathering, which has angered privacy rights groups in the United States and foreign governments everywhere. Unveiled in Congress on Wednesday, the Intelligence Oversight and Surveillance Reform
SAN FRANCISCO - Security company Intego has found a new malware package for OS X, called OSX/Leverage.A, which appears to be yet another targeted command-and-control Trojan horse, this time with apparent associations with the Syrian Electronic Army; however, Apple has blocked its ability to run with an XProtect update only days after its discovery. The
BRUSSELS, Belgium ? The European Union Commissioner for Justice said Europe needs new cross-national data protection laws to countermand the ongoing backlash against business following the NSA PRISM spying scandal that rocked the world earlier this year. Vivian Reding claimed the region's economy will suffer unless new uniform data protection laws are created. "Trust has