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Cybersecurity Executive Order Is a Mistake Every Way You Look at It
Photo credit: Newscom President Obama plans to issue his cybersecurity executive order on Wednesday, following his State of the Union address, according to The Hill. Based on drafts circulating several...
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Sequestration Cuts the DHS Off at the Knees
Photo credit: Zhang Yan/ZUMA Press/Newscom Last week, Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee released a report outlining what they believe the consequences of sequestration will be if it goes...
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Chinese Cyber Attacks: Take Off the Kid Gloves
Chinafotopress/ZUMApress/Newscom Last week, Mandiant, a private company, released a report that identified a specific bureau of China’s military as responsible for hacking massive amounts of data over...
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Cloakroom: Battle of the Budgets, Round 1
House Cloakroom: March 11 – March 15 Analysis: This week House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) will release his 2014 budget resolution for markup in committee. The Ryan budget is expected offer a...
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From Chemical Security to Cyber: Regulation Still Not the Answer
Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call/Newscom The House Committee on Energy and Commerce will hold a hearing on Thursday on the progress made in the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program...
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North Korea Ups the Ante with Cyber Attack
Korean Central News Agency via Korean News Service On Tuesday, several South Korean banks and television broadcasters were taken offline due to a “pretty massive” cyber attack. For the most part these...
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Internet Hit by Largest Cyber Attack Yet
Newscom This week, the largest cyber attack to date hit the Internet. Spamhaus, an anti-spam company, placed Cyberbunker on their black-list of spam generating companies. Cyberbunker quickly retaliated...
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One Step on Cyber Espionage: Reform the Foreign Investment Process
Newscom Japanese telecommunications company Softbank wants to buy Sprint Nextel for about $20 billion. One barrier to the deal is unusual: Softbank and Sprint are being pushed to spurn equipment made...
View ArticleMorning Bell: Keeping Americans Safe Online
Everything we do is online. If you’ve been the victim of identity theft or an email phishing scam, you know how quickly your personal data can be stolen or threatened. It’s important to know the...
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7 Steps to Solve Congressional Cyber Stalemate
Chinafotopress/ZUMApress/Newscom Congress is back in session and “ready” to tackle cybersecurity. Regrettably, some in Congress are again proposing 19th century–style legislative solutions to this...
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Cybersecurity: Harnessing the Power of the Private Sector
Newscom Last week, a hacker turned cybersecurity expert, Marc Maiffret, published an enlightening op-ed in The New York Times, arguing the private sector can and should do more to improve the nation’s...
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Top-Down Cybersecurity Regulations: An Outdated Solution
Newscom Cybersecurity is a hot issue, and with the House of Representatives’s approval of the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) this week it is likely to get hotter....
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The U.S. Faces Dangers from Around the World
John Albright/Icon SMI/Newscom James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, recently told the Senate Armed Services Committee, “In my almost fifty years in intelligence, I do not recall a period...
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Tensions Grow Between China and India
Newscom Even as tensions remain high around the disputed Senkaku islands, China appears to be asserting its sovereignty elsewhere along its periphery. Indian officials have accused China of a deep...
View ArticleU.S. Should Stand Up to China on Cyber Attacks
The highest-ranking American military officer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Martin Dempsey, continued this Administration’s naïve attempts to cooperate with China when it comes to cybersecurity...
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Confronting China’s Cyber Offensive
Chinafotopress/ZUMApress/Newscom The U.S. Government has issued its annual report on the state of China’s military activities. Most notably, for the first time, the government has directly accused the...
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Cybersecurity: Government Regulations Can’t Keep Up
Newscom For the first time since 2005, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has revised the federal cybersecurity standards. Since the last update, flash memory, Wi-Fi,...
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China Hacks U.S. Defense Department
Chinafotopress/ZUMApress/Newscom The Defense Science Board (DSB) just released a report indicating that Chinese hackers have compromised the designs of perhaps two dozen of America’s top defense...
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Chinese Hackers Compromise U.S. Weapons Systems
Newscom The Washington Post is reporting that the designs for many of the U.S.’s “most sensitive advanced weapons systems have been compromised by Chinese hackers.” While the U.S. has started to...
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Cybersecurity: Homeland Security Follies
Newscom The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) just found out that it had a cybersecurity vulnerability for the past four years that could have led to personally identifiable information being...
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