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We cover the top cyber security news as it hits the wire and as people start discussing it in social media and security forums & communities. If you’re looking to get a quick dose of cyber security news you should be able to find most of the top issues here. If you have something to add or think we missed something let us know at our contact form.
- New Cyber Security Bill CISPA could be worse than SOPA
- Breached Websites That Were Attacked By Hackers Lacked Basic Defenses Says Verizon
- Screencast Tutorial: How to use GHDB to indentify security holes, Googledorks
- New Quantum Encryption Method Foil Hackers
- Infographic of the Top 10 Scams in 2011
- Cyber Security Liability For Data Breaches, E-Vandalism, Loss of Hardware Gets A New Player
- Last 3 Months of 2011 See Cyber Security Hiring Growing 2%
- Cyber Security Plan from the Senate is Getting A Lot of Criticism
- Could slowing down cyber crime be as simple as better passwords?
- Cybercrime is increasing in India and raises alarm and interest, need for Cyber Security? #cybersecurity
- DDOS Attacks May Be Even More Dangerous When Not Done Widescale & Smaller #infosec
- Symantec offers up $50k to keep PCAnywhere Source Code under wraps, fails, posts to pastebin
- Tax Season is creating spam that is for IRS / Quicken calls to action to exploit kits & malware
- NightJack Blog Author outed by The Times Employee Hacking Into Richard Horton’s Email Account
- US Congress is working on drafting cyber crime measures to strengthen US Cyber Security
- India is urged to start a full-fledged military cyber command to bolster their cyber security
- Cyber Attacks Are Being Done with Government Domain Names & Collecting Financial Data
- Illinois State staff is joining forces with a task force to put an end to Cyber Attacks & Cyber Espionage
- Servers in Germany were found hosting Malicious Mobile Apps Targeting Android & Symbian
- Botnet Controllers Transferring Zeus Toolkit Servers into Former Soviet Union TLD “.su” #infosec
- Android HTC Devices Revealed To Have 802.1X Password Exploit
- Really, Google is evil now? Let’s Get Real. How About Apple?
- What Should You Do When Your Website Gets Hacked?
- White Hat Hackers Grouping Up Together in Washington DC at ShmooCon
- Embedded Devices Are Getting Attacked More, Time For Embedded Firewalls?
- As Seen On TV Viruses and Malware and How It’s All BS
- A vote on Cyber Security Bill by Congress is getting closer #infosec #news
- Dangerous Malware Attacking Government Data Can Be Protected by Bit9 Parity Suite
- Infrastructure Consolidation Is Happening Through The Consumer Cloud API
- Corporate BYOD Policies Equal Privacy Loss, Data Loss & Seizure of Your Devices
- Tips To Protect Your Privacy Shared By Trend Micro
- What Users Are Really Paying To Use Google, Twitter and Facebook
- Valentine’s Day Facebook Theme Awakens A Malware Variant Beast
- Getting A Used Car Like A Hacker
- FBI Director Says Cyberthreat Will Surpass Threat From Terrorists
- Robert Mueller predicts cybersecurity eventually will become the number one threat against the U.S.
- Cybersecurity Analyst Aaron Barr Loses Another Job After Anonymous Destroys His Credibility In Occupy Wall Street Incident
- Anonymous Attacks on CBS & Universal Leave Security Experts Questioning, Who’s Next?
- Israeli Hacking is confirmed by Saudi Credit-Card Holders
- Pirate Bay is blocked by Finnish ISP Elisa, then attacked by Anonymous with DDOS
- Active Phising Sites Tracked Each Month in January to June 2011 by type of target [pic] #infographic
- Real Time Hosted Threat Intelligence Feed Being Designed by Microsoft #infosec
- Hacktivism in 2012 is going to grow even larger according to McAfee
- Xbox Live Security Breach is Denied By Microsoft #infosec
- Currency Rounding Attacks A New Concern for Online Banks, Should You Be Worried?
- Businesses being targeted from FDIC Malware attacks that are spreading #infosec
- German Police Network breached after policeman caught spying on his daughter’s computer activities #infosec
- Congress Hearing on SOPA will see Reddit Founder & DNS Hacker w/ other critics
- Critical Security Fixes released by Microsoft & Adobe
- During the transition to IPv6 what can we expect in 2012?
- Hacking getting a good name again due to Facebook? #infosec
- Links to QR Codes are showing up in spam emails #security #trend
- A report tried to make the case for forcing companies & organizations to reveal data breaches #infosec
- A list of threats users can expect to face in 2012 according to AVG #infosec
- Android App Malware Report: One-Click Billing Scheme is making fraud a growing problem
- SOPA Hearings will see Rackspace CEO testify about his opposition
- The threat from Autorun & Conficker is not gone, still lurking out there #infosec
- US is looking into U.S. – China Commission Email Hack Attack #infosec
- Stratfor has managed to go back online after repeated attacks #infosec
- Public transport vehicles getting CCTV cameras installed in Hong Kong
- Credit Card Information leaked on thousands of Israelis by Saudi Hackers
- How to detect metamorphic malware & visualization-based malware ideas
- Bank Malware hiding footprints & transactions from victims, called SpyEye Trojan
- Researchers predicting more sophisticated attacks after Stuxnet & Duqu
- Web Browser Keylogging Becomes New Security Threat Without Javascript
- DNS Blackholes As A Routing Solution
- Police impersonations fueled by malware that is custom made for countries
- Android Malware Could Be A Cyber Security Nightmare for 2012
- Cyber Security is one of the priorities of Texas Lawmakers in 2012
- Digital Satellite TVs and their security vulnerabilities in set top boxes & sniffing traffic
- Ruby Hacking, Speed, Effeciency & Security – don’t create strings longer than 23 characters
- Iran clamps down on Internet use with more surveillance & regulations
- Cross-Site Scripting in Chart Generator Bug Detected #infosec
- A UK Retailer, Comet, has been sued for selling 94k counterfeit Windows CDs
- Energy Department & DHS are working with private companies & utilities to prevent cyber attacks
- Cyber Security Trends in 2011
- Cyber Security Job Outlook
- China denies being villian in newly reported Global Cyber Attacks
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