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Budget Official To Replace Howard Schmidt as White House Cyber Czar (May 17, 2012)
White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt has announced his retirement from public service.......
Terrorists and Nation States May Attempt To Exploit Anonymous (May 17, 2012)
According to a Microsoft executive, Anonymous could be co-opted by nation states and terrorist groups to use it for their own ends.......
Utah CIO Resigns Over Healthcare Data Breach (May 15 & 16, 2012)
Earlier this week, Utah State Chief Information Officer (CIO) Stephen Fletcher resigned his position over a data security breach that exposed the Social Security numbers (SSNs) and other personal information of 280,000 Medicaid patients.......
House Subcommittee Hears Testimony on Geolocation Data Bill (May 17, 2012)
Law enforcement officers and privacy proponents testified at a US House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security regarding a bill that would require law enforcement officers to obtain warrants before collecting geolocation data from cell phone carriers.......
The Pirate Bay Back Online After DDoS Attack (May 16 & 17, 2012)
The Pirate Bay is back online following a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that kept the site inaccessible for more than a day.......
Prison Term for Facebook Account Hack (May 17, 2012)
A UK man will spend one year in prison for hacking another person's Facebook account.......
Survey Finds Energy and Utility Industry Companies Weak on Cyber Risk Management (May 16, 2012)
A recent survey of 108 global companies conducted by the Carnegie Mellon University CyLab and sponsored by RSA and Forbes found that those in the financial sector have the best cyber and information risk management practices, while companies in the energy and utility industries have the worst.......
Google Releases Chrome 19 Stable; Enabled, In Part, by Security Bug Bounties (May 16, 2012)
Google has released Chrome 19, the newest stable version of its browser.......
Apple Issues Flashback Removal Tool for Leopard (May 15, 2012)
Apple has released a tool that will remove the Flashback malware from infected machines running OS X 10.......
Cards Compromised in Global Payments Breach Used in Fraudulent Transactions (May 14, 2012)
Debit cards that were compromised in a data security breach at Global Payments have reportedly been used to conduct fraudulent transactions.......
FBI Returns Server Seized in Univ. of Pittsburgh Bomb Threat Investigation (May 11, 2012)
FBI agents returned a server seized from a New York co-location facility four days after the equipment was taken from the organization.......
Appeals Court Turns Down FOIA Request for Google Attack Records (May 11, 2012)
A three-judge panel of the US Court of appeals for District of Columbia has denied a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) to unseal records pertaining to a cyber attack against Google users in China that occurred in 2010.......

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