Anonymous lures unwitting users into online campaign
The attack by hacktivist group Anonymous against law enforcement and entertainment sites caps a week that shows cyberspace is emerging as an arena for grassroots political activism.
World IPv6 Launch date set; Google, Facebook, MS on board
The Internet Society sets the date when major service providers, equipment vendors and websites will permanently enable the new protocols. Will users see the difference?
Congress backs away from SOPA, PIPA in face of public outcry
A well-orchestrated campaign against anti-piracy bills in the House and Senate has forced legislators to reconsider provisions for filtering and blocking sites on the Internet.
Is CIO confidence on FISMA compliance waning?
A majority of federal IT officials do not expect to meet OMB's September deadline for installing continuous monitoring systems, and top IT execs are most doubtful of all.
After hack, RSA amps up security, but people still the weak link
The company has revamped manufacturing and distribution and is focusing on risk-based authentication, but there is no complete defense against advanced threats that target individuals.
Can 'year of the hack' spur better threat info sharing?
Sophisticated new threats require an intelligence-based approach to cybersecurity, an industry panel says. But getting organizations to share information has always been a challenge.
Cyber threats easy to predict, so why do they still surprise us?
It didn't take a crystal ball to predict the main threat trends for last year, but seeing them coming didn't make them any easier to stop.
SOPA undercuts Internet security, experts say; lawmakers float alternative
The OPEN Act, being floated online, would treat online piracy as a foreign trade issue, but not include the DNS blocking provisions of SOPA or the Protect IP Act.
Internet set for 'most significant' domain expansion in history
Despite fears of trademark infringement, ICANN says its process for new generic Top Level Domains, which opens the evening of Jan. 12 on the East Coast, has enough intellectual property protections.
New public printer: In shift to digital, GPO must 'do everything'
Davita Vance-Cooks, the newly-appointed acting public printer and the first woman in that position, says supporting customers' move from paper to digital is "critical to our survival at GPO."
Industry needs government help to protect infrastructure, GAO study says
There is no lack of guidance for protecting the nation's critical infrastructure, but a study found that government could do a better job of providing advice and assistance to non-regulated industries.
Getting the most out of automated IT security management
SCAP automates much of the job of checking and validating security settings on IT systems, and NIST is updating recommendations for making the best use of it.
NASA: Prize money a bargain for better software
The agency's Tournament Lab provides production-ready software to NASA and academic data to Harvard at bargain prices. And coders can cash in, too.
Will competitive coding replace in-house development?
There always will be a need for internal staff members, but if the competitive outsourcing model catches on, their role could change.
A space-time cloak? Time holes? It's not science fiction anymore.
New research in creating time holes to cloak events sounds esoteric, but hackers might be able to use it to mask online intrusions into IT systems.
Non-Latin Top Level Domain names grew in 2011
The number of country code Top Level Domains using non-Latin scripts and alphabets rose with the addition of 26 to 30 names in the last year.
Stuxnet, Duqu tip of the iceberg; more attacks on tap, researchers say
Files uncovered by Kaspersky Lab indicate that Stuxnet and Duqu are likely part of a much larger family of malicious code with multiple variants and payloads yet to be discovered.
Anonymous hack of intell company Stratfor was all too easy
The breach of credit card and other data shows that too many organizations still ignore the basics, exposing themselves to serious, if low-level, threats.
Pessimism over FISMA deadline starts at the top, survey finds
A majority of federal IT officials don't expect to meet OMB's September deadline for implementing continuous security monitoring, and C-level officials are the most doubtful of all.
Cyber threats in 2012: 5 pain points
Attackers, whether criminals, industrial spies, hacktivists or nation-states, are highly motivated and will use blended threats delivered through a variety of channels.
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