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Cybercrime bill passed lower house

In Networks - 25 August 2011 4:44 PM

Greens furious.

Former White House security advisor accuses countries of sponsoring cyber crime

In Hackers - By Dan Raywood, 15 October 2010 10:57 AM

Russia, Moldova and Belarus cited.

Cybersecurity Enhancement Act passed by US House

In Risk - By Angela Moscaritolo, 5 February 2010 10:52 AM

Funds cybersecurity research and scholarships.

Hackers deface 49 US House of Reps websites

In Web/client - By Angela Moscaritolo, 29 January 2010 11:35 AM

Anti-Obama message posted.

Schmidt returns to the White House

In Risk - By Phil Muncaster, 6 January 2010 4:21 PM

Howard Schmidt becomes cyber security coordinator.

Phishing attack targets financial clearing house

In Web/client - 16 November 2009 11:33 AM

Beware emails that link to e-payment processor Nacha.

US First Lady's safehouse location leaked on P2P

In Web/client - By Angela Moscaritolo, 30 July 2009 10:37 AM

Also found: a listing of the locations of all US nuclear facilities and a document containing the personal information of hundreds of thousands of US military members.

White House turns to hacker for security advice

In Risk - By Iain Thomson, 9 June 2009 12:16 PM

Jeff Moss, aka Dark Tangent, the white hat hacker who set up the Black Hat and DEFCON computer conferences, has been picked as a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s ...

Federal investigation into missing presidential hard drive

In Networks - By Iain Thomson, 21 May 2009 9:27 AM

U.S. Federal investigators are examining how a hard drive containing sensitive personal information from the Clinton era has gone missing from the National Archive.

Policymakers debate White House's role in cybersecurity

In Risk - By Angela Moscaritolo, 29 April 2009 10:26 AM

Lawmakers and public policy experts have clashed at a U.S. Senate committee hearing over whether cybersecurity control should be taken away from the U.S. Department of Homeland ...

Obama to spend on cybersecurity

In Risk - By Shaun Nichols, 2 March 2009 10:26 AM

President Barack Obama is planning to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on improving cybersecurity in the United States.

Did the Chinese government sponsor White House cyberattacks?

In Hackers - By Angela Moscaritolo, 10 November 2008 11:07 AM

Chinese hackers have been able to successfully attack the White House computer network and obtain email messages between United States'government officials, the Financial Times ...

Cybercrime bill passes House, awaits Bush signature

In Risk - By Dan Kaplan, 22 September 2008 9:42 AM

The president's signature is the only thing standing in the way of a rare event: an IT-security related bill becoming law.

Ex-White House security adviser Howard Schmidt heads ISF

By Phil Muncaster, 13 August 2008 9:41 AM

Howard Schmidt takes on the role of first president of the InformationSecurity Forum.

NASA hacker to appeal

In Hackers - By Richard Thurston, 16 June 2008 10:20 AM

Gary McKinnon, the Briton who is facing extradition to the US for hacking into NASA's computers, is to appeal the deportation on Monday.

White House 'loses' five million emails

In Messaging - By Iain Thomson, 5 May 2008 9:51 AM

The White House has stated that it is unable to provide investigators with over five million emails relating to the run-up to the Iraq war because it has accidentally deleted ...

Storm makes house calls: New messages lead to bogus medical sites, evade filters

In Messaging - By Jack Rogers, 31 January 2008 10:47 AM

The notorious Storm worm botnet, which has mounted phishing attacks on major banks and spawned several waves of holiday-themed messages in recent weeks, is generating spam that ...

Dueling cybercrime bills: House to focus on breach notifications

In Risk - By Jack Rogers, 11 December 2007 9:48 AM

The U.S. House of Representatives is unlikely to take up a tough identity theft law passed by the Senate last month before considering a broader measure proposed by the ...

Nasa hacker McKinnon appeals to the House of Lords

In Hackers - By Matt Chapman, 3 August 2007 2:54 PM

'Nasa Hacker' Gary McKinnon has been granted the right to appeal to the House of Lords to try and stop extradition proceedings that would see him tried in America.

House committee to address Department of Homeland Security cyberincidents

In Web/client - By Dan Kaplan, 21 June 2007 4:30 PM

A federal panel today is scheduled to review the cybersecurity shortfalls at the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the US agency charged with defending the nation ...

US I-SPY Act passes House

In Web/client - By Frank Washkuch, 24 May 2007 12:41 PM

The Internet Spyware Prevention Act of 2007 was approved by the US House of Representatives this week, but the bill still faces a significant test in the prospect of Senate ...

US Federal cybercrime bill introduced in House

In Hackers - By Dan Kaplan, 16 May 2007 9:39 AM

Two congressmen on Monday introduced a bipartisan cybersecurity bill that proponents say will modernise regulations while providing law enforcement with more resources to ...

White House orders feds to improve data security

By Ericka Chickowski, 28 June 2006 10:44 PM

The federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has ordered government agencies to improve their security controls within 45 days.

Stronger cybersecurity bill passes House committee

By Dan Kaplan, 25 May 2006 10:36 PM

The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee today approved a bill that would significantly strengthen existing federal cybercrime law and provide law enforcement with ...

IT security experts to fill in House subcommittee

By Dan Kaplan, 15 March 2006 8:16 PM

Industry and government leaders will testify Thursday before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on the growing cybersecurity concerns facing small businesses.

Clean house for easier Exchange migration

By Frank Washkuch, 30 November 2005 9:55 PM

PC users planning to upgrade email programs at the end of this year should get rid of zombie accounts and reduce the amount of data in storage, one email management company has ...

Teen hacker goes to the house of detention

By René Millman, 18 August 2005 11:26 AM

A teen hacker who hired out botnets to launch DoS attacks has been sentenced to five years in juvenile detention and ordered to pay $35,000 in restitution.

CardSystems CEO testifies before House subcommittee

By Marcia Savage, 21 July 2005 6:04 PM

CardSystems Solutions President and CEO John Perry appeared before a House subcommittee Thursday to testify how the payment processor's network was breached, exposing thousands ...

House subcommittee approves new cybersecurity post

By Marcia Savage, 22 April 2005 8:50 PM

A bill that would create an assistant secretary for cybersecurity in the Department of Homeland Security was unanimously approved this week by a House Homeland Security ...