New York state is proposing regulations aimed at protecting your money from criminal hackers, and the initiative is already drawing criticism from Wall Street. Critics say the proposal is unlikely to improve security at Wall Street giants. They say big firms are already forced to comply with any number of federal cybersecurity laws and largely adhere to…
Yahoo has confirmed that it is the victim of a cyber security breach affecting at least 500m accounts, perhaps the largest in history. Data breaches of email and social media accounts, retail stores, health insurance companies and even governments are now routine. The lesson to be learnt from the Yahoo breach may be that, when…
Sept. 21 — The Federal Communications Commission’s “specious” broadband privacy proposal would increase costs for broadband internet service providers and would harm consumer choice in sharing their data, FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly said Sept. 21. The FCC’s proposal would establish rules for broadband providers, such as AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc., that would require…
The sparsely populated Spratly Islands, a collection of hundreds of islands and reefs spread over roughly 165,000 square miles in the South China Sea, are very quickly becoming the center of one of the most contentious international disputes between world powers since the fall of the Soviet Union. Alarmingly, the use of cyber attacks in…
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AFNS) — Lt. Gen. J. Kevin McLaughlin, the U.S. Cyber Command deputy commander, discussed the missions, capacity and capabilities of USCYBERCOM during a cyber warfare session at the Air Force Association Air, Space and Cyber Conference here Sept. 20. McLaughlin detailed the journey toward building cyber mission forces and how the command plans…