At RSA San Francisco 2012, FBI Director Robert Mueller spoke about cybersecurity threats surpassing terrorism as a risk priority in the U.S. It was only a few years ago when cybercrime was juxtaposed with illegal narcotics and the position was made that cybercrime is a more lucrative industry than selling drugs. Some people might have written-off Read more…
Tags: cyberattacks, cybersecurity, RSA, security
It’s a sobering experience to read the Security and Defense Agenda’s (SDA) just-released report, Cybersecurity: The Vexed Question of Global Rules. The report, sponsored by McAfee, culls together interviews with 80 cyber-security experts in government, business, international organizations, and academia with a survey of 250 senior security practitioners, to get a handle on the cybersecurity Read more…
Tags: cybersecurity, Global Cybersecurity, Security and Defense Agenda
DefCon found new life in 2011; a new venue, a non-electronic badge, expanded audience base, and hacker kids. As a three-year veteran of the conference, I was struck by the number of kids strolling the convention floor – some of them with mohawks. DefCon Kids was designed to introduce 8 to 16 year olds to Read more…
Tags: cybersecurity, DefCon Kids, U.S. Cyber Challenge Camps
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