Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies
April 8, 2009
Senate bill mandates strong federal role to make Internet safer
April 3, 2009
Sen. John Rockefeller and Sen. Olympia Snowe this week introduced proposed cybersecurity legislation that would create a cabinet-level cybersecurity advisor reporting directly to President Obama — and also create extraordinary powers to enable the federal government to take over leadership in making the Internet safer.
This comes with word expected any day now from Melissa Hathaway, the management consultant tasked by President Obama to conduct a 60-day review of U.S. cybersecurity …More
Cybercrime thriller wins award, sequel coming to LastWatchdog.com
April 2, 2009
Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity has just been awarded the prestigious Excellence in Financial Journalism Award for general audience books from the New York State Society of Certified Public Accounts.
Z DT is a digital true-crime thriller that chronicles the tumultuous transition from hacking for bragging rights to the current world of cybercrime for pure profit.…More
Conficker stops spreading as bad guys tighten grip on already-infected PCs
April 2, 2009
The Microsoft-supplied diagram (shown below)Â depicting how Conficker spreads is accurate, but dated, and therefore somewhat misleading.
The lastest version of Conficker, Variant C, is not looking for unpatched Windows PCs to infect, according to SRI International and IBM ISS.
The bad guys appear to have infected more PCs than they can productively manage, perhaps well over 10 million, according to OpenDNS founder David Ulevitch.
Conficker C first appeared on March 5. It’ s …More
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