Cyber Defense

Walsh IAC Director Poulios To Deliver Washington DC Security Talk

TROY - Walsh College Information Assurance Center Director Nan Poulios, CISSP, CISM, will speak on Phishing, Phaxing, Pharming, and Training at CSI 2007 on November 3-9 in Washington, D.C. In a presentation on why information security training often fails to produce the expected effects, Poulios will discuss how users? online actions often directly conflict with

By |2007-07-26T00:00:00-04:00July 26th, 2007|Archive, Cyber Defense|

IP3, DePaul University Host IT-IA Security Seminar

CHICAGO - On July 30th and 31st, DePaul University will be hosting IP3 which will present a comprehensive IT-IA Security seminar for corporate IT security leaders called From Strategy to Reality: The Bigger Picture. Ken Kousky, President and CEO of IP3, will conduct and showcase the world-class seminar, which will earn 14 CEU credits. Kousky

By |2007-07-25T00:00:00-04:00July 25th, 2007|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Will Security Firms Detect Police Spyware?

WASHINGTON DC - A recent federal court decision raises the question of whether antivirus companies may intentionally overlook spyware that is secretly placed on computers by police. In the case decided earlier this month by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, federal agents used spyware with a keystroke logger--call it fedware--to record the typing

By |2007-07-25T00:00:00-04:00July 25th, 2007|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Senators Renew Quest For Net Neutrality Rules

WASHINGTON DC - The Net neutrality skirmish that swallowed up so much of Congress' technopolitical agenda last year may be gearing up for a comeback. A pair of senators who led the divisive push for the new regulations want everyone to know they haven't forgotten the cause. Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)

By |2007-07-25T00:00:00-04:00July 25th, 2007|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Feds Scramble To Meet Data Breach Deadline

WASHINGTON DC -With only two months left before government agencies must figure out how to deal with data breaches and data theft, federal bureaucrats are scrambling to meet the looming deadline. The deadline was created by a White House directive published this spring that gave all federal agencies until September 22 to figure out the

By |2007-07-25T00:00:00-04:00July 25th, 2007|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Congress: P2P Networks Harm National Security

WASHINGTON DC - Politicians charged this month that peer-to-peer networks can pose a "national security threat" because they enable federal employees to share sensitive or classified documents accidentally from their computers. At a hearing on the topic, Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) said, without offering details, that he is considering new laws aimed

By |2007-07-25T00:00:00-04:00July 25th, 2007|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Phone Flaw Lets Hackers Take Over, Security Firm Says

CUPERTINO, Ca. - A team of computer security consultants say they have found a flaw in Apple's iPhone that allows hackers to take control of the all in one technology device. The researchers, working for Independent Security Evaluators, a company that tests its clients' computer security by hacking it, said that they could take control

By |2007-07-24T00:00:00-04:00July 24th, 2007|Archive, Cyber Defense|