Melissa Hathaway tackles cybersecurity Mission Impossible
April 25, 2009
There was no way Melissa Hathaway was going to steal Pres. Obama’s thunder at the RSA Conference on security in San Francisco last week. Expectations ran high that Hathaway would divulge details from the exhaustive 60-day review of cybersecurity policy she just recently delivered to senior White House officials.
But her report remains under review by Obama. Hathaway, nonetheless, gamely took to the stage Wednesday afternoon, April 22, in …More
Melissa Hathaway’s RSA Conference 2009 keynote address
April 24, 2009
Remarks by Melissa E. Hathaway
Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace
for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils
As Prepared for Delivery
At the RSA Conference 2009
San Francisco, California
April 22, 2009
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Good afternoon. Thank You. It is my honor and privilege to be here today…
Theme from Mission Impossible plays over PA. Disembodied voice: Good afternoon Melissa Hathaway. The digital infrastructure shown here supports critical public services and is vital to the …More
Cybergangs use cheap labor to break codes on social sites
April 24, 2009
By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY
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SEATTLE – It’s become the new front in cybercrime: scams and identity-theft programs that attack e-mail accounts and users of social-networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.
To carry out many of these automated attacks, cybercriminals first must overcome “captchas,” the distorted letters and characters that users of an e-mail or social-networking account are required to type to complete certain online …More
How CAPTCHA solvers aid worm spreaders
April 23, 2009
April 23, 2009
By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY
See original version of story here.
SEATTLE – It’s become the new front in cybercrime: scams and identity-theft programs that attack e-mail accounts and users of social-networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.
To carry out many of these automated attacks, cybercriminals first must overcome “captchas,” the distorted letters and characters that users of an e-mail or social-networking account are required to type to complete certain …More
Pressure mounts for naming of a White House cybersecurity adviser with clout
April 15, 2009
Word is that Melissa Hathaway’s 60-day review of U.S. cybersecurity policy will hit President Obama’s desk this Friday, April 17. Precisely when the White House makes it public will be an indicator of how high a priority this is with Obama, who certainly has his plate full with a few other weighty matters.
A leak of the executive summary of Hathaway’s review sometime in the next 48 hours — in …More
Conficker spreads anew, covers tracks and begins pitching fake AntiVirus
April 10, 2009
Trend Micro virus hunter Ivan Macalintal appears to be the first researcher to identify specific, updated instructions being passed along, node-to-node, among PCs infected with Conficker Variant C.
On April 8, Macalintal isolated an infected PC in Korea that was passing the update across Conficker’s customized P2P network. The PC in Korea received the update from another node on Conficker’s P2P net. Macalintal told LastWatchdog that he also has identified …More
Q&A on U.S. electrical grid infiltrated by Chinese, Russian cyberspies
April 9, 2009
The Wall Street Journal’s scoop that Chinese and Russian cyberspies have established deep footholds inside the networks that control the U.S. electrical grid ties directly into the 60-day review of U.S. cybersecurity policy due to be delivered any day to the White House.
Proving investigative journalism is still viable, WSJ reporter Siobahn Gorman cajoled unnamed U.S. intelligence officials to describe …More