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U.S. is losing the global cyber war.

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Mich.), said Sunday that recent reports about Chinese hacking show the U.S. is losing a global cyber war. “We get [hit] every single day by a whole series … of attacks, everything from criminals trying to get into your bank account or steal your [...]

Cyberthreat is real and demands immediate action, says Pentagon to U.S. Congress, creating controversy with business organizations.

Frustration has grown on Capitol Hill, in no small part due to explicit warnings about the growing cyberthreat from the nation’s top military leaders, General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency NSA, who also leads the Pentagon´s  new US Cyber Command and General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “The [...]

FBI official says U.S. unprepared for cyberattacks

The Americas Post - Shawn Henry says we're in for big trouble. Photo Credit: FBI

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 [...]

Anonymous strikes again in Mexico

The Americas Post - Anonymous doesn't like the flavor of the Mexican SOPA

  Members of the international hacker group Anonymous said on Friday they had attacked Mexican government websites  in protest of a bill seeking official controls over release of information on the internet. Beginning in the morning, disabled websites included the Ministry of Interior (www.segob.gob.mx), Senate (www.senado.gob.mx), and Chamber of Deputies (www.diputados.gob.mx).  Hours later, the sites were [...]

Joe Parry says: In Intelligence Infographics ” a good sketch is better than a long speech”.

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 [...]

EISIC, Dr. Nasrullah Memon and Computational Criminology: Early Warning Informatics System could predict Terrorist Threats

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 [...]

Athens Cyber Security Conference, Dr. Thuraisingham´s “Data Mining for Security”.

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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