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Jerry Bessette, a former senior cybersecurity official with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has joined Booz Allen Hamilton to lead its commercial business, Booz Allen announced on Tuesday. 

SOS International appointed Helle Huxley as vice president for strategic communications and named Gregory Hayken as associate general and VP for contracts. “Helle and Greg bring years of valuable experience to the SOSi team,” Julian Setian, SOSi president and CEO, said in a statement Thursday.

The worldwide cooperative Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication has employed the help of BAE Systems and Fox-IT and established a team of information technology and cyber experts to support security investigations within SWIFT’s global user community. SWIFT said Monday its new Customer Security Intelligence team will work alongside BAE and Fox-IT to foster customer information …

Martin Homlish, formerly CEO of Omnicom Group’s AMP marketing agency, has joined the board of directors of Cray Inc. He will also serve on the board’s strategic technology assessment committee, Cray said Friday. Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray, said Homlish’s executive leadership and background will be valuable to …

Federal agencies have put cybersecurity defenses high on their agendas in recent years due in part to a “democratization of cybersecurity capability,” according to John Abeles and Ernest Wohnig of cybersecurity consulting firm System 1. Abeles and Wohnig, respectively CEO and a senior vice president at System 1, offered a …

The widely-reported cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment that compromised emails written by the movie and television company’s leaders and personal information of employees took another turn Friday when the FBI publicly held North Korea’s government responsible for the hack. As covered on our sister site ExecutiveGov, the bureau said …

MarketsandMarkets forecasts an 8.06 percent compound annual growth rate for the image sensor market by 2020 to reach a total market value of $15.77 billion and cites that trend to new CMOS design and fabrication technology. The market research firm said Thursday that companies emerging to develop the market include Aptina Imaging, Canon, CMOSIS, OmniVision Technologies, …

The Justice Department‘s website was shut down Thursday afternoon in what the FBI called a “denial of service attack.” The hacking group “Anonymous” claimed responsibility for the attacks on its Twitter account (@YourAnonNews). The attacks are believed to be in response to an indictment and shutdown of the popular file-sharing …

Sony named Philip Reitinger, a former top U.S. Department of Homeland Security official, to lead its cybersecurity efforts months after a massive hacking attack. Reitinger  has previously held security roles with U.S. National Cyber Security Center, Departments of Defense and Justice, and Microsoft. He has been appointed Sony’s chief information officer …

BAE Systems said its cybersecurity division is getting more business in the wake of the attacks on companies such as Sony Corp, Bloomberg reports. In the last half-year, there has been “a significant shift in the understanding of cyber threats within board rooms,” Martin Sutherland, managing director at BAE Systems’ …

A hacker who goes by the name Idahc defaced the homepage of Damascus University and posted a warning that additional government and Syrian education websites will be hacked, according to The Daily Star. Sunday afternoon, the self-described Lebanese gray hat hacker took to Twitter and posted a message that said,  …

In yet another round of cyber attacks, hackers have stolen more than 177,000 emails from Sony Pictures France, ZDNet reports. The two hackers, who go by the names of Idahc and Auth3ntiq, claim to have exploited an SQL flaw to get the information. The hackers posted information on Pastebin.com about …

A senior counterterrorism official says terrorist groups do not yet have the technical skills to launch a major cyber attack against the United States, The Associated Press reports. Daniel Benjamin, State Department counterterrorism coordinator, said while insurgents are pursuing the emerging threat of such an attack, the majority of Internet-based …

Spanish police today arrested three suspected members of Anonymous on charges of cyber attacking targets including Sony, governments, businesses and financial institutions, Reuters reports. The suspects had been involved in the recent denial-of-service attack on Sony’s PlayStation online gaming store, as well as other cyber attacks on Spanish banks and …

The FBI plans to intensify its attention on battling cyber crime as the agency wrestles with cyber attacks at companies such as Google and Sony, according to Bloomberg. “We will increasingly put emphasis on addressing cyber threats in all of their variations,” FBI Director Robert S. Mueller said today at …