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Startup Spotlight: Cycosmos.com
News Cycosmos is a chat forum that allows you to let your cyber imagination run away with you, creating whatever character you want and even allowing you to change your sex.techTrader was given a guided tour of Cycosmos.com at the BBC Tomorrow's World...
[July 11, 2000, 7:19]
Cyberattacks target UK's national infrastructure
News Sustained cyber-espionage attacks are being waged on companies that play a key role in the Britain's national infrastructure, a UK cyber-defence chief has warned. The use of cyber-techniques is relatively easy, cheap and low risk in terms of being...
[October 30, 2008, 6:30]
Assessing Power Substation Network Security and Survivability: A Work in Progress Report
White Papers This paper reports the experiences with identifying cyber-based threats to the survivability of power substation control networks. The paper also discusses the state of the power industry cyber security, which appears to lag behind the state-of-the...
[September 20, 2008, 0:00]
Global group to provide cyberattack early warnings
News Twenty-six countries have united to form a global cyber-security group: the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber-Terrorism (Impact). Announcing its launch at the World Cyber Security Summit in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, Impact said...
[May 21, 2008, 13:35]
Universities win funding to model cyberterrorism
News The National Science Foundation, working with the Department of Homeland Security, has granted $5.46m (£3.27m) to two Californian universities to develop a cyber-war test bed aimed at bettering Internet security, the universities announced on...
[October 16, 2003, 12:00]
Surfing in the UK is cool -- official
News The online Internet survey looked at the surfing habits of over 2,000 parents and children and the message is -- families are embracing the cyber age. For 80 percent of cyber-teens, the average time online -- up to an hour -- is not enough and 23...
[July 9, 1999, 9:57]
Implementing Information Security Governance (ISG) - A Case Study: Entrust
White Papers Given its leadership role and the increasing emphasis on cyber security, Entrust was directed to review and improve internal information security practices. Cyber security is best viewed, not solely as a technology challenge, but as a corporate...
[December 1, 2004, 23:00]
Do we all have a role in the UK’s Cybersecurity Strategy?
Blog Not in the least because the UK Cyber Security Strategy requires a lot to be defined. It’s a starting point, albeit a good one, but it doesn’t offer much insight into how the eight work streams assigned to the new UK Office of Cyber Security are...
[August 7, 2009, 10:50]
Hollywood ensures cyberterror myth will Die Hard
Talkback I do not believe that cyber terrorism represents a clear and present danger. I do not believe that cyber terrorists will have access to techniques and skills to which hackers don't already have access.
[August 4, 2006, 7:48]
FBI to prioritise cybercrime fight
News Protecting the United States against "cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes" is one of the FBI's top 10 priorities, Director Robert Mueller said at a news conference detailing a major reorganisation of the agency.
[May 30, 2002, 14:18]
Protecting the Web: Phishing, Malware, and Other Security Threats
White Papers Spam leads users to online scams and phishing Web pages, which cyber-criminals use to steal users' financial data and passwords. Other criminals use Web sites to spread malware, which can steal personal data or take over users' computers into a...
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Cyberwarfare 'a reality in 12 months'
News Although an actual act of cyber-warfare or cyber-terrorism has never been recorded, the potential exists and is being facilitated by an increasingly connected world, according to a report released on Wednesday by market-research firm Gartner.
[January 15, 2004, 11:50]
Digital rights group to fight data retention
News ORG will serve as a hub for other cyber-rights groups campaigning on similar digital rights issues and follows in the footsteps of the US group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). ORG hopes to serve as a coordinator for other cyber-rights groups...
[September 12, 2005, 17:35]
US official: We are under cyberattack all the time
News US defence secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday that the US is "under cyberattack virtually all the time, every day", and that the Defense Department plans to more than quadruple the number of cyber experts it employs to ward off such attacks.
[April 22, 2009, 9:51]
Hack attack on capitalism... not likely
News Speculation that anti-capitalist activists will organise Internet demonstrations and cyber attacks on British companies were dismissed as unlikely although some disruption is expected. Security consultant Ian Johnston-Bryden of Oceanus Security...
[November 29, 1999, 16:25]
US Dept of Defense lists top 20 security controls
News Called Twenty Most Important Controls and Metrics for Effective Cyber Defense and Continuous FISMA Compliance, the list was published on Monday by a conglomerate of US government agencies, including the NSA, US-Cert, various US Department of...
[February 23, 2009, 14:20]
Management group warns CEOs of data-breach risks
News In a report entitled Cyber Attack: A Risk Management Primer for CEOs and Directors, launched on Wednesday, the British-North American Committee (BNAC) said that chief executives underestimate the scale of data-security problems and fail to...
[May 8, 2008, 14:22]
Cybercrime treaty may conflict with UN declaration
News Yaman Akdeniz, director of Cyber Rights & Cyber Liberties is expected to warn that developing techniques to combat high-tech crime could lead to unjustified Internet surveillance. New media historically face suspicion and are liable to excessive...
[December 12, 2000, 13:30]
Clinton to propose Net security centre
News The Cyber National Information Center, to be known as Cyber NIC, will be a place where companies "can work together to address cyber security problems and crises," according to a planning document. A statement to be issued by the group calls for...
[February 15, 2000, 14:25]
How CIOs can help fight cyberterror
News However, a successful cyberterrorist attack that combines both physical and cyber elements on a regional scale is certainly within the capabilities of terrorist organisations today. This book, Black Ice: The Invisible Threat of Cyber-Terrorism...
[July 24, 2003, 14:44]
