The Chaos Computer Club and the International League for Human Rights filed a criminal complaint with Germany’s Federal Prosecutor General’s Office, the Europe’s largest association of hackers said on February 3. “We accuse US, British and German secret agents, their supervisors, the German Minister of the Interior as well as the German Chancellor of illegal and…
FIS, a large banking and payments technology provider, will collaborate with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as a cybersecurity research partner, the company said on February 3rd. Under the partnership, FIS representatives will work with DHS’s National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center to address and respond to cyber-threats against the global financial industry and critical…
The healthcare market has been generating much attention lately. Everyone from individuals to corporate executives is focused on the changes and provisions as they relate to health insurance. Well, almost everyone. The information security professionals in the healthcare industry are still focused on data security and how to best protect sensitive patient records from exposure…
The first time I was exposed to the IT security concerns of the Olympics was in 2003 when a delegation from China visited the US to garner advice on protecting the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Their concern was primarily with protecting the results data from each event as it was recorded onsite and transmitted…
As various pundits have reeled off their security advice for 2014 many have listed the growing threat of denial of service (DoS) attacks as something to look out for. They are probably right to do so; two recent publications, the Arbor Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report (WISR) and the Prolexic Global DDoS Attack Report, both show…