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http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2210383/lack-jobs-driving-professionalsBy Tom YoungComputing25 Feb 2008The growing number of cyber criminals in areas of Asia and Eastern-Europe is the result of a lack of IT jobs for qualified professionals, according to a report from vendor Mcafee.And the growing trade in malware means that authors can sell their code to other criminals without actually releasing their viruses.Writing malware is a hard option to ignore, according to Joe Telafici, vice president o read more »
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http://www.fcw.com/online/news/151957-1.htmlBy Wade-Hahn ChanFCW.comMarch 19, 2008Visitors to Energy Department Web sites should not be redirected to pornography, the departments Inspector Generals Office said in a report.But that has happened, the oversight office found. DOE sites suffered 60 security incidents on public servers in the past three years, with some 22 incidents occurring in the past year, the report states.More than half of those attacks resulted in defaced home pages, including the changin read more »
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Sixty-nine percent of the respondents to a King Research study said they are unsure whether they are in full compliance with the terms of their software licenses, and 44 percent reported that unlicensed software is in use in their environments. read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:24:50 -0500 (CDT)http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=40700By Jill R. Aitoro Govexec.com August 11, 2008 To understand what it's like to be a federal chief information security officer, consider Larry Ruffin. As CISO at the Interior Department, his job could be described as having little to do with being a chief and not much more about security.Although he regards Interior's current information security as "far from in read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 02:17:34 -0500 (CDT)http://www.arabtimesonline.com/kuwaitnews/pagesdetails.asp?nid=21784&ccid=9By Francis A. Clifford CardozoArab Times StaffSeptember 04, 2008 KUWAIT CITY - Internet-related crimes are on the rise in Kuwait and the lack of Cyber laws makes it impossible to tackle such fraudulent practices, says a Kuwaiti lawyer. Speaking to the Arab Times on Wednesday, Labeed Abdal added that hackers are increasingly targeting Kuwait and read more »
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Enterprise Strategy Group conducted a survey of IT decision makers and discovered that more than half of respondents reported their organization had experienced a data breach in the last 12 months. The most commonly cited barrier to database security was a lack of budget – a troubling indicator with current economic conditions. - A survey of IT decision makers by the Enterprise StrategyGroup is enough to make those concerned about database security trembleslightly. While 58 percent of the 179 respondent read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:32:16 -0600 (CST)http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9130519By Jaikumar VijayanMarch 25, 2009 ComputerworldThe Senate Homeland Security Committee's senior-most Republican is asking DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano to explain why the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), set up within the department last year, has seemingly been marginalized by the agency.In a Marc read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 00:18:52 -0600 (CST)http://fcw.com/articles/2010/03/03/cybersecurity-policy.aspxBy William JacksonFCW.comMarch 03, 2010SAN FRANCISCO -- The lack of trust between the public and private sectors continues to inhibit the sharing of information needed for the nation to effectively defend against rapidly evolving cyberthreats, a panel of industry experts and former government officials said Tuesday."We need to have more transparency in the p read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 02:45:49 -0600 (CST)Forwarded from: Richard Forno <rforno (at) infowarrior.org>Talk about a blast from the past!This article could be ripped from FCW's archives with only the dates and names changed .... I mean, didn't we hear industry and gov folks say the same thing in 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009 about critical infrastructure protection, Y2K, homeland security, etc? Heck, the Nation even has a "National Strategy for I read more »
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