Chabrow, who retired at the end of 2017, hosted and produced the semi-weekly podcast ISMG Security Report and oversaw ISMG's GovInfoSecurity and InfoRiskToday. He's a veteran multimedia journalist who has covered information technology, government and business.
"Systems compromised by this botnet provide the attackers not only user credentials and confidential information, but remote access inside the compromised networks," says Amit Yoran, CEO of NetWitness, which revealed the Kneber attacks.
Alex Cox, Research Consultant and Principal Analyst, NetWitness
Alex Cox, a research consultant and principal analyst at the IT security firm NetWitness, discovered last month the Kneber botnet, a variant of the ZueS Trojan that he says has infested 75,000 systems in 2,500 corporate and governmental organizations...
The International Biometric Performance Conference entitled Performance, Evaluation and Specification of Biometric Technologies will bring together biometric users, technology providers, integrators and evaluators.
Provisions of the bill would help develop a skilled government infosec workforce, prioritize federal cybersecurity R&D, improve the transfer of cybersecurity technologies to business and promote cybersecurity education and awareness.
An amendment approved by the House to the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act is seen as preventing recipients from using the scholarship program solely as a bridge to a higher-paying, private-sector job.
"We need government to modernize the laws, adapt them to the cloud and adopt new measures to protect privacy and promote security" Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith says.
There's hope on the horizon. Four straight months of growth in IT services firms' payrolls could be a harbinger that tech employment is set to rise again as the economic recovery takes hold.
The 10 most significant events regarding government cybersecurity in 2009 saw its genesis with the inauguration of a Blackberry-toting chief executive, the most tech-savvy president to occupy the Oval Office.
Past experience as a high-ranking information security official at the White House and at Microsoft is seen as toughing him to advance cybersecurity initiatives against internal adversaries.
The Internet Security Alliance in a new report argues that giving businesses incentives and not regulating them will better safeguard the nation's IT systems.
Los Alamos National Laboratory has spent $45 million to secure its classified computer network over seven years, according the GAO, yet significant weaknesses remain in safeguarding its classified computer network.
Melissa Hathaway, who led President Obama's 60-day cybersecurity policy review, says it would be a mistake to place the nation's top cybersecurity adviser in the Department of Homeland Security, as proposed by an influential senator, and not in the White House.
Asked, in an interview with GovInfoSecurity.com...
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