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.
Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who blew the lid off of the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance programs, has released the U.S. intelligence community’s classified “black budget” for fiscal year 2013.
In her farewell speech, outgoing Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano says that the U.S. will soon face a major cyber attack with serious impacts on the economy and society as a whole.
The Washington Post acknowledged that a sophisticated phishing attack against its newsroom reporters led to the hacking of its Web site, which was seeded with code that redirected readers to the Web site of the Syrian Electronic Army hacker group.
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced in late July a number of milestones in its continued efforts to spearhead global transparency for cloud services.
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is encouraging chief security officers to help address two information technology challenges faced by the energy sector.
While attention was on potential physical attacks on utilities and other critical infrastructure sites, a growing number of troubling incidents involving computer networks and attackers acting alone and through friendly and not-so-friendly nations has shifted attention to cybersecurity issues.