Tag Archives : cyber security

President Barack Obama has finally made his decision on the dangling appointment of the nation’s cyber security coordinator naming Howard A. Schmidt as the United States national cyber security coordinator. Mr. Schmidt has been a renowned computer security executive and had also served under the Bush administration. The announcement for the latest [...]

The CEO of Russia’s Kaspersky Lab, Eugene Kaspersky, says, “I’d like to change the design of the Internet by introducing regulation—Internet passports, Internet police, and international agreement—about following Internet standards.” One of the big names in Internet security believes that the Internet has a huge problem: anonymity. [...]

Research and Development Corporation or RAND in its recent report on cyber terrorism, has stated that the United States’ best option as of now to avoid a cyber attack on its infrastructure is to keep it cyber anti-terrorism efforts on the defensive, instead of searching for offensive opportunities. The U.S has already designated a special military [...]

Hackers from Russia and China have the reputation of being the chief cybercriminals around, while the biggest victims are said to be Europe and the US. In fact, the US Defense Department has forked over upwards of $100 million in six months for the purpose of strengthening the country’s cyber security. Internet expert Ivan Zasursky notes that Russia [...]

The Obama administration is finalizing the creation within the Pentagon of a new unit called Cyber Command, dedicated to ensuring the security of computer networks of the United States military that have been, of late, threatened by the intrusion of hackers linked especially to countries such as China and Russia. Most likely to be at the helm of the [...]