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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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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