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“Anonymous” claims hit on Booz Allen

“Anonymous” claims hit on Booz Allen

Hacker group Anonymous on Monday released a trove of military email addresses and passwords it claimed to have plundered from the network of US defense consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. Anonymous made available a...

West Point team wins Cyber Defense title

West Point team wins Cyber Defense title

West Point cadets tested their cyber defense skills against veteran hackers from the National Security Agency and emerged victorious. The three-day 2011 Cyber Defense Exercise concluded April 22, 2011, giving the U.S. Military Academy...

EU seeks unified cybersecurity regime

EU seeks unified cybersecurity regime

The European Security Round Table ESRT held, in conjunction with the Estonian Ministry of Defence (1), the European Cyber Security Conference, titled “Shared Threats – Shared Solutions: Towards a European Cyber Policy,” that discussed...

Germany Arms Itself for Cyber War

Germany Arms Itself for Cyber War

see also: Germany Plans a New Cyber Defense Agency – The German government is responding to an increase in Internet threats with a new Cyber Defense Center in Bonn, which opens Thursday. Interior Minister...

IMF hit by ‘very major’ cyber security attack

IMF hit by ‘very major’ cyber security attack

Related Stories US: Cyber-attack is ‘act of war’ Cyber war exaggerated says expert Cyber-sabotage tops security  fear The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it has been targeted by a sophisticated cyber attack. Officials at the...

LM Announces BlackCloud Solution

LM Announces BlackCloud Solution

Lockheed Martin announced BlackCloudTM, a secure turnkey private cloud solution for government agencies designed to minimize risk while addressing compliance and mission requirements. BlackCloud integrates Lockheed Martin’s architecture with solutions from Cyber Security Alliance...

Boeing says under ‘continuous’ cyber attack

Boeing says under ‘continuous’ cyber attack

Boeing is under “continuous” cyber attack but there has been no breach of its databases, a senior executive said Friday. The admission by Dennis Muilenburg, the chief executive of Boeing Defense, Space and Security,...

Alenia Aermacchi new Chairman

Alenia Aermacchi new Chairman

Alenia Aeronautica’s Board of Directors has appointed Amedeo Caporaletti as company’s Chairman, succeeding the resigning Giorgio Brazzelli, who held this position since 2009 and who has taken over another prestigious role within the Finmeccanica...

Cyber Security: Challenges and Policies

  Dr. Csaba Hende On May 2 the Ministry of Defence organized an EU Presidency conference on cyberspace security in Stefánia Palace, Budapest, where participants discussed how the international community can respond to the cyberspace...

How China and Others Are Altering Web Traffic

How China and Others Are Altering Web Traffic

Google leveled new charges against China this week, claiming that the country has interfered with some citizens’ access to the Internet giant’s Gmail service, disguising the interference as technical glitches. Security experts say that...

Extremely sophisticated cyber attack against RSA

The network of one the world’s largest and trusted security firms has been breached, and an unknown amount of information about its popular multifactor authentication technology has been stolen. Customers are worried about what...

Six Moroccan Islamists wanted to punish Pope Benedict XVI

Six Moroccan Islamists wanted to punish Pope Benedict XVI

Six Islamic fundamentalists were detained Friday in a probe into anti-Christian incitement including an alleged threat to “punish” Pope Benedict XVI for baptising a noted Egyptian-Italian journalist and member of the European Parliament who...

Finmeccanica restructuring : Telespazio, Vega, Elsag Datamat

Finmeccanica restructuring : Telespazio, Vega, Elsag Datamat

Telespazio has acquired the space activities of Finmeccanica subsidiaries Vega and Elsag Datamat. Telespazio said the acquisition is more of a restructuring of Finmeccanica’s space services and applications business and aims to broadening the...