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One-fourth of Trump’s Cyber Security Council Resign Claiming He is AWOL on Cyber Threats, Threatening Homeland Security

The National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) advises the Department of Homeland Security on cyber security and infrastructure protection.  The NIAC has recently warned that dramatic steps were required to prevent a possible “9/11-level cyber attacks”. On August 21st, seven of the NIAC’s 27 members resigned en masse, claiming President Donald Trump and his administration is not adequately…

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The Basic Steps to Online Safety and Security

The Basic Steps to Online Safety and Security The Internet Law Center is proud to be a Champion for National Cyber Security Awareness Month sponsored by StaySafeOnline.org.  During the month of October, we will be posting information on cyber security and safe internet practices. Week 1 of NCSA Month focuses on Basic Steps to Online Safety…

CLBR Episode #93: Dan Tynan on Facebook, Broken Internet, Banana Endorsements, Dan Ackroyd and the Big East

DAN TYNAN RETURNS TO CLBR For a Free Wheeling Discussion on Facebook Likes, Broken Internets, Banana Endorsements and a Surprise Dan Ackroyd Appearance (Kind of) Background More Privacy Perils: Facebook Data Is Greater Than The Sum Of Your Likes (Forbes) The Internet: You broke it, you own it. Now fix it. Would you trust a LinkedIn…

CLBR SEGMENT 2: STAN STAHL ON CYBER SECURITY

Stan Stahl, President of Citadel Information Systems, returns to discuss the latest Cyber Security issues.   BACKGROUNDER You Say Tomato, I Say You Got Hacked? GoDaddy Hacked, or Just a Technical Glitch?, Technorati GoDaddy outage makes websites unavailable for many Internet users (Updated), ArsTechnica At publication time, there was no evidence to support claims that…

Cyber Attacks Jump 81 Percent in 2011, ISSA Summit and April Targets

 Cyber Attacks Jump 81 Percent in 2011 Symantec’s annual internet security threat report reports that Symantec blocked over 5.5 billion attacks in 2011 – an increase of 81 percent.  The report also details that hackers exposed 187 million identities in 2011; mobile vulnerabilities increased 93 percent and advanced targeted attacks spread to organizations of all…

Cyber Security: FCC Proposes Cyber Security Guidelines & March Victims

FCC Offers Voluntary Cyber Security Guidelines The Federal Communications Commission’s Communications, Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) released its initial recommendations addressing cyber security threats in commercial networks.    CSRIC recommended that ISPs (i)  adopt an Anti-Bot Code of Conduct that would help detect and remediate bots; (ii) take the first steps towards implementation of DNSSEC secure…

Top Stories of 2011

TOP STORIES OF 2011 #1  AMAZON WARS 2010 ended with the Amazon Tax in effect in three states totally approximately ten percent of the population and GDP.  With the addition of Arkansas, Calfornia, Connecticut, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Vermont the tax has some applicability in states which comprise about 1/3 of the population and GDP the…

Cyber Security: 2012 Threat Predictions

Year end cyber security threat reports by McAfee and Cisco provide some useful warnings and recommendations for 2012.     McAfee lists the top 10 threats as: Industrial threats will mature and segment Embedded hardware attacks will widen and deepen  Hacktivism and Anonymous will reboot and evolve  Virtual currency systems will experience broader and more…