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Self-Regulatory Initiative Includes Opt-out Website and Promotes Use of 'Advertising Option Icon' that Alerts Consumers to Online Behavioral Ads 

FBI's Most Wanted Cyber CriminalsLast week the FBI’s New York office made several arrests related to a large international cybercrime ring, and are seeking 17 others. Those arrested are charged with using hundreds of false-name bank accounts to receive more than $3 million from victimized accounts.

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) today announced that it has acquired Reston, Virginia based Technology Associates Inc., a company that provides data extraction and analysis, digital media intercept and exploitation, embedded system programming, and information assurance services to the U.S. intelligence community.

CSC today announced that it has acquired Vulnerability Research Labs (VRL), a privately held cyber threat intelligence firm based in Columbia, Maryland.

Global Law Enforcement Cooperation Key in Disruption of Cybercrime Ring Using ZeuS Malware

Federal Executives Believe Cybersecurity Measures Are Hurting Agency Productivity

The U.S. Cyber Command, scheduled to be “fully operational” by Friday, will miss that deadline. That’s what Col. Rivers J. Johnson, Cybercom spokesman told Stars and Stripes on Wednesday.

The Future of Cyber Attacks - Do Recent BGP Anomalies Shed a Light on What's to Come?

SenSage, Inc., a provider of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems, today announced it has received $6.25M in combined capital to accelerate its future growth plans and further expand its base of enterprise and government customers.

Brazilian Army Operational Agents  to Be Trained for the Fight Against Cyber terrorism, Online Crime and Strategic Preparation for Cyberwarfare

New Facility to Help Enable Development of Cybersecurity Solutions Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) today announced the grand opening of its Cyber Innovation Center (CIC) along the I-95 corridor in Columbia, Maryland.

A new report released today by IT security giant McAfee indicates that while organizations see the potential value of Web 2.0 tools, decision makers continue to debate whether to use them in the workplace.

Update - 10/12/10 9:50AM - There have been reports that this attack used "Bugat" Malware in addition to Zeus

Over the weekend, researchers from Fortinet and S21cec came across a new mobile malware piece they have named SymbOS/Zitmo.A!tr, or “Zitmo,” standing for “Zeus In The Mobile.” As two-factor authentication methods become more popular, cybercriminals are working hard to keep up and develop technologies that let them further track and capture user credentials. The Zitmo malware was designed to intercept confirmation SMS messages sent by banks to their customers.

USB Thumb Drive Designed for U.S. Government Cyber Security Missions Rapidly Probes, Identifies and Extracts Digital Computer Data, Leaving No FootprintLooking to find and extract specific data quickly from a computer system without leaving a footprint behind?

New Payment Tokenization Service Unveiled for the Akamai Cloud Akamai Technologies today unveiled an “Edge Tokenization” electronic payment security service that automates credit card tokenization within the Akamai cloud, keeping payment data off the networks of eCommerce providers.

Stuxnet - Win32/Stuxnet - Analysis and Global Infection Rates

CyberPatriot - Cyber Defense Competition Draws Over 450 Teams From Across The Nation The Air Force Association announced today that CyberPatriot, a cyber defense competition for high schools, has more than 450 teams registered to participate.

Do you remember those ’80s and ’90s movies that portrayed the same hacker over and over, just in a different setting? It was always a kid wizard sitting in his parent’s basement hammering away on the keyboard. Or a student loner who hacked into the university’s administration system to change his grades. That’s the image engrained in our brains when we hear the word “hacker.” In reality, when we talk about hackers, we are talking about a fully organized, well-oiled...

Russian software firm ElcomSoft Co. Ltd., makers of several password and encryption cracking products, today released Wireless Security Auditor, a wireless key “recovery” solution for Wi-Fi networks.Designed to be an all-in-one wireless cracking solution, the company claims that the software can automatically locate wireless networks, intercept data packets, and crack WPA/WPA2 PSK passwords.