Guest Post The online world can be a dangerous place for the unprepared. And it’s just going to get worse. It’s time to teach Cyber Security as integral part of the high school and college curriculum and to all corporate employees.
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protections Act passed in the House today after many privacy groups spoke out in opposition.
Virginia announced a new cyber-security accelerator that is based on the same model as Silicon Valley's Y Combinator.
Mat Honan got owned last year and it sucked, but you can still learn his lesson.
Guest Post We all know we've got a cyber security problem. But while new attack vectors like BYOD and the cloud are making things tougher, there might be a reason for optimism.
While on the phone congratulating China's new president Xi Jinping on his appointment, President Obama reportedly slipped in some conversation around cyber security and intellectual property theft.
While congress has yet to reach any sort of lasting solution regarding the nations growing cyber security problems, President Barack Obama has decidedly taken the first big step in an executive order signed earlier today.
Rumors of CISPA's demise were apparently greatly exaggerated, according to various privacy rights advocates and organizations today.
Guest Post If there is any weakness in security, you can guarantee the criminals will try to exploit it. And if a cyber criminal discovers a weakness in one community, it won’t be long before that isolated crime turns into a trend. The commercialization of malware is rapidly becoming a well-organized and highly lucrative business.
President Obama signed a new cyber security directive in mid-October, according to The Washington Post, that begins to outline the government's involvement in securing the private sector, and how it will act when on the offensive.
Digital identity protector OneID has partnered with four large e-commerce platforms so more shoppers can safely and conveniently make purchases online using just one password.
OneID provides customers with an account that can be used across multiple websites and payment …
The White House is losing its cyber security coordinator Howard Schmidt to retirement this year after a tumultuous 2011, often referred to a the year of the hack.
Schmidt served the White House in this role for two and a …
At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …
After lots of public outcry, Facebook has published a letter today explaining its support for controversial cyber-security legislation, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA (PDF).
CISPA intends to grant companies more leeway when it comes to collecting …
6Scan released a new plugin for WordPress today, aimed at giving small businesses the same level of cyber security that enterprises can afford.
“I think what SMBs [small to medium-sized businesses] want most of all is something that doesn’t take …
Citigroup on Thursday said that computer hackers broke into the bank’s network and accessed data on 200,000 North American bank card holders.
The names of customers, account numbers, and contact information, including email addresses, were viewed in the breach. Citi …
IBM says it monitors 13 billion real-time security events every day for more than 4,000 clients. That’s about 150,000 events per second, which include anything from phishing attacks to false alarms.
Those events are part of a growing problem. IBM …
Cyber security company Endgame Systems announced today that it has raised $29 million in its first round of funding from a number of firms including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
The funding announcement comes in conjunction with its launch of …
