US DHS To Get Cyber Defence Agency
A US House of Representatives committee has voted to create a new agency under the purview of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that...
US Postal Service hit by cyber-attack; US suspects China
The United States Postal Service (USPS) stated that it has been the victim of “a cyber-security intrusion” exposing the employment records of more than 800,000 employees. The FBI is investigating...
Vehicular Cybersecurity – Also for Police Car Fleet
Researching vehicular cybersecurity and its role in future law enforcement was the focus of the first part of a project carried out as a...
iHLS TV -Turkish UAS,protect networks,security guards and smartphones
Turkey plans to become a leading UAS manufacturer
DARPA in an effort to protect networks
Needed trained security guards - a world problem
Oshkosh to develop more...
Businesses brace for more sophisticated, cyberattacks in 2015
The recent Sony Pictures hack is one more reason for industries to prepare for a series of cyberattacks which will likely occur in 2015. From massive...
Internet troll? You may be subject to 4 years in prison
A recent story in the Guardian (16.10.2014) reported that Justice Secretary Chris Grayling is promoting legislation according to which anyone indicted of internet 'trolling'...
Fostering Cyber-Defenses of Financial Institutions
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has been fostering the cyber-defenses of financial institutions. This research-and-development effort will...
iHLS TV – Going global, Amazon’s drone store, new grenade launcher,...
In this weekly report (30 September 2014):
iHLS TV is going global to over 40 million viewers through the Shalom Show
Amazon to launch drone store
New...
Backdoor-riddled Devices Sold To US Army, White House
AMX, a supplier of audio-visual and building control equipment among whose clients you’ll find the US Army and the White House, built in a...
Is Now A Cyber Watershed For ISIS?
The cyberattack on TalkTalk, a telecommunications company in Britain, could be a watershed moment in Islamic State's (Isis) cyberwar against the West, cybersecurity experts...
China Recruits Tech Companies to Battle Online Terrorism
China’s twenty-five technology companies have pledged to counter online terror activities.
Chinese search engine Baidu, Tencent investment holding company, Alibaba and JD.com - e-commerce companies,...
Growing cyberthreats lead to growing interest in cybersecurity insurance
The increasing sophistication and scope of cyberattacks on businesses – and the increasing damage such attacks are causing – have led to growing interest...
IAI to build a professional network for the cyber community in...
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) was recently awarded a contract by the Israel National Cyber Bureau in the Prime Minister's Office, to establish an innovative...
The Browser Add-On to Protect Your Devices From Malware
In the old days of the home computing, malware - viruses, computer worms, and trojan horses - ranged from the relatively harmless prank to...
World’s First Blockchain Secured Smartphone
More and more industries have been discovering the blockchain technology advantages in the field of enhanced security against hackers. Blockchain is a secure database...
Police department forced to pay ransom for hacked department’s data
Last December, cyberterrorists hacked into servers belonging to the Tewksbury Police Department, encrypted the data stored, and later asked for a $500 bitcoin ransom...
Mirai Botnet Source Code Unveiled
Security researchers have come across the source code for the Internet of Things botnet called Mirai. This botnet has been used to launch major...
IoT Devices Used for Cyber Attack on Twitter, Paypal
A major cyber-attack that used hacked smart devices such as web cameras managed to shut down high-profile websites including Twitter, Spotify and PayPal, as...
Protecting Children on the Web
The web has many advantages for everyone, in every age, around the globe. But as always there are darker sides that can cause severe...
Your New Cyber Super-Soldier
Ixia, a provider of network testing, visibility, and security solutions, announced recently that the company’s threat intelligence gateway (ThreatARMOR) will now include cloud-powered centralized...
Washington: evidence ties North Korea to Sony cyberattack
U.S. intelligence agencies said they have concluded that the North Korean government was “centrally involved” in the attacks on Sony’s computers.
This conclusion was leaked...
Hackers Made Off With Massive FBI, DHS Employee Database
A rogue hacker group managed to penetrate the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secure network and make off with a database containing the...
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