Articles Tagged with ''cyber security''

The nation’s critical infrastructure is coming under increased pressure to protect their vital systems and assets from outside cyber threats as the number of attacks increase and stronger regulations are imposed.

Researchers analyzing the Automatic Identification System used to track vessels have found that they are vulnerable to cyberattacks. Currently, the system is installed on around 400,000 ships.

While U.S. government officials find the current pipeline for cybersecurity talent to be lacking, 82 percent of U.S. millennials say no high school teacher or guidance counselor ever mentioned to them the idea of a career in cybersecurity.

Adobe Systems said that hackers had accessed personal data for nearly 3 million of its customers.

A former NSA contractor has designed four typefaces that would be unreadable by text-scanning software (either used by a government agency or an independent hacker).

In response to the growing cyber threat, Congress has been busy drafting legislation.

A group of German hackers claimed to have cracked the iPhone fingerprint scanner.

We’re losing the battle against state-sponsored cyber attacks and things are not going to improve any time soon, according to a new survey from Lieberman Software Corporation.  

 Fortune 1,000 firms in the health care, technology and insurance sectors top the list of industry groups most concerned about cyber threats, according to a recent report by Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings.