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  • FBI in the market for app to monitor social networks

    27.01.2012

    The US FBI is looking into the possibility of using an "Open Source and social media alert, mapping, and analysis application" for increasing its situational awareness, and to that effect has issued a request for information to determine if there are companies that could provide them with it.

  • A peek into the Sykipot campaigns

    27.01.2012

    The group(s) behind the massive and consistent campaigns targeting US defense contractors with the Sykipot Trojan continue their attacks unabated, reports Symantec.

  • Targeted attacks will change the economics of security

    25.01.2012

    Today, European Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, will unveil the new European Privacy Directive, designed to safeguard personal, identifiable information that is stored by private and public sector organizations.

  • Programmer steals US government software source code

    20.01.2012

    A Chinese computer programmer has been arrested in New York for having allegedly copied and stolen the source code of software developed by the US Treasury Department, Computerworld reports.

  • Megaupload shuttered, founders arrested, Anonymous retaliates with DDoS attacks

    20.01.2012

    As the Internet-wide blackout in protest of the anti-piracy PIPA and SOPA legislations was slowly winding down, US authorities have announced the seizure and takedown of Megaupload, one of the most popular online file-sharing services.





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Posted on 23 May 2013.  |  The issue of whether or not information security professionals should be licensed to practice has already been the topic of many a passionate debate.


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