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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.

State of Software Security Report Evaluates Security of Web Applications

DNS Security - What Every CIO Should Do

How to Stop a Cyber Attack Before it Happens

Sponsored Spam Fighting! CAPTCHAs Emerge as The Latest Tool for Online Advertisers Each day 142 “man years” are spent solving CAPTCHAs, a test many Web sites use to help ensure responses are coming from people and not generated by a computer. That calculation is based on the fact that, on average, a user spends 14 seconds to review and enter a response, multiplied by 280 million, the number of times CAPTCHAS are used per day across the Web.

BAE Systems announced that it has received a $40 Million order to provide cybersecurity services to the FBI, the first order awarded under the Information Assurance Program Support contract vehicle, a five-year effort valued at $134 million.