A high-ranking official retiring from the Federal Bureau of Investigation has grim words about public and private attempts to block cyberattacks on corporate targets: “We’re not winning.” Shawn Henry, the FBI’s executive assistant director for cybersecurity, told the Wall Street Journal that the government and private companies are incapable of protecting sensitive data from hackers. He described current tactics as “unsustainable,” saying that [...]
To defend the U.S. military’s information assets, Pentagon leaders say defense computers must be tied to the cloud — meaning an online environment that can be centrally locked down. Yet it’s difficult to police parts of that environment manufactured or even housed in countries that stand accused of cyberespionage, experts say. The shift of military [...]
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One of the biggest security firms in the world was embarrassed this week when hackers stole the source code for Symantec’s industry-leading anti-virus program. The code theft from the security company will probably not affect the average computer user or compromise his computer, analysts say, but is a serious image problem for the Fortune 500 [...]
Next Monday is Cyber Monday! And as online shoppers take to the Web this Cyber Monday hunting for bargains and holiday deals, the U.S. Homeland Security reminds everybody about the campaign Stop.Think.Connect.™ This Campaign reminds online shoppers to be prepared and fully aware of the cybersecurity risks of theft, fraud and abuse. While many businesses [...]
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How should we communicate the results of our analysis to decision-makers? How to visualize key information for decision makers? The talk of Joe Parry argued that visualisations and infographics play a very important role, not only for analytical processes of data analysts, but also for explaining the analytical results to decision-makers at the highest of [...]
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On the occasion of the EISIC (September 12-14,2011) held in Athens, we interviewed the Program Chair of the event Dr. Nasrullah Memon, professor at the University of Southern Denmark and member of the Steering Committee of the European Intelligence & Security Informatics Conference EISIC on Counterterrorism and Criminology. The event was organized jointly with The [...]
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This week the Mexican Zetas drug cartel sent a clear message to websites that report on the drug war, in a note with two mutilated corpses hung from an overpass near the U.S. border. Officials at the state prosecutor’s office said a sign warning bloggers to stay quiet was found next to the disemboweled bodies [...]
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Several Mexican government websites were crashed on Thursday, including the Ministries of Defense and Public Security. Hacker group Anonymous has claimed responsibility. A Mexican Defense Ministry spokesman said only that the website was experiencing technical difficulties. A statement from Anonymous, a relatively disorganized group that has attacked financial and government websites around the world, referred [...]
This document was published by the criminology scientists Charalampos Doulaverakis, Nikolaos Konstantinou, Thomas Knape, Ioannis Kompatsiaris and John Soldatos. Doulaverakis was the keynote speaker at the EISIC 2011 SecuAll scientists are related to three institutions: a) Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas in Thessaloniki, Greece b) the Autonomic and Grid Computing [...]
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On September 12th, and during the first day of the conference EISIC 2011 “European Intelligence & Security Informatics Conference, on Counterterrorism and Criminology,” the first keynote speech was given by the expert Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham Cyber Security (BT) (*). The title of his presentation was “Data Mining for Malicious Code Detection and Security Applications”. Among [...]
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