INFORMATION
Daily Headline : Maritime Security
05/09/2012 - “This is much more likely an example of how security trade magazines will evolve online,” John Honovich says.
Daily Headline : Investigations
05/04/2012 - Congress wants to know how many times cell phone companies have provided data to law enforcement. A new hacker group calling itself the Unknowns says it wants to show NASA and the Air Force how it breached their networks. An anti-abortion group says it leaked patient medical records from a Kansas City abortion clinic. And more.
Daily Headline : IT Security
04/27/2012 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday aimed at helping the government and private sector share information about cyber threats.
Daily Headline : Cybercrime
04/25/2012 - Facebook and the data protection company Sophos are teaming up to make it easier for users to protect themselves from malicious links on the social networking site.
Daily Headline : Cybercrime
04/25/2012 - A case of mad cow disease is discovered in California, but officials say people aren’t at risk. A new report says NATO press releases are intentionally deceptive about troops involved. The number of incidents reported by federal agencies to the federal information security incident center has increased by 680 percent. Nissan announces it was hacked. And more.
Daily Headline : International Security
04/20/2012 - Security is heightened in Bahrain ahead of planned protests. A fake Instagram app contains malware. The Coast Guard intercepts its 30th drug sub. And more.
Daily Headline : Surveillance
04/09/2012 - Associate Editor John Wagley reviews an inexpensive surveillance app with a breadth of features and controls.
Daily Headline : Crime
04/09/2012 - A Tulsa task force makes two arrests for the Friday shootings that left three dead and two injured. Foreign countries are infiltrating America’s colleges with questionable motives, the FBI says. Medicaid breach larger than originally thought. And more.
Daily Headline : Privacy
04/02/2012 - The controversial app, Girls Around Me, has been pulled from the Apple Store amid protests by privacy advocates and the geomapping social networking site Foursquare. Critics, however, say the problem isn’t Girls Around Me, but the amount of information social media sites share about its users by default.
Daily Headline : Cybercrime
03/29/2012 - A new study out of London finds that most cybercrime is committed by organized crime rings.
Daily Headline : Crime
03/26/2012 - Microsoft employees teamed up with federal law enforcement to target botnet equipment.
Legal Report: Legal Issues
03/23/2012 - A bill (S. 1469) introduced by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) would require that the federal government provide an annual report to Congress on cybercrime directed at the United States by foreign countries.
Beyond Print: Surveillance
03/23/2012 - An inexpensive surveillance application reviewed this month has a wide range of security features and controls. Its functions include motion detection, e-mail alerts, and automatic video recording and playback. Go online to see how it works.