Disaster Recovery

Planned legislation to protect power grid

Angela Moscaritolo April 29, 2009

Just weeks after reports surfaced that foreign spies have penetrated the U.S. power grid lawmakers are now set to introduce a bill Thursday aimed at creating standards to protect the nation's critical electric infrastructure.

"Online 911" created to diagnose and deal with cybercrime

Angela Moscaritolo April 28, 2009

McAfee has launched a free Cybercriminal Response Unit (CRU), meant to be an "online 911" where cybercrime is diagnosed and treated.

Cyberattack repairs cost Pentagon $100 million in six months

Angela Moscaritolo April 08, 2009

The Pentagon has spent more than $100 million in the past six months repairing damage to its networks caused by cyberattacks, according to military officials.

Cyberspace: An environment of inevitability for federal agencies

Gary McAlum, senior manager, Deloitte & Touche April 01, 2009

Success in today's cybersecurity environment of inevitability will require a multidisciplinary approach and the critical success factor is leadership.

VeriSign switches to new hash function to secure SSL certs

Angela Moscaritolo January 05, 2009

The news comes after a serious weakness was revealed last week in the MD5 cryptographic hash function.

MD5 insecurity affects all internet users

Angela Moscaritolo December 31, 2008

Certification Authorities that have not moved to a more secure cryptographic hash function than MD5 have come under fire in the security world.

Hackers find hole to create rogue digital certificates

Angela Moscaritolo December 30, 2008

Research presented at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin demonstrated how an attacker could impersonate any website, including those secured by the HTTPS protocol.