A coalition of 22 financial, technology and retail trade groups has called on Congress to pass legislation governing consumer data protection and breach notification. On Thursday, the organizations wrote a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee calling for the enactment of national data breach legislation that would protect …
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Mike Gregoire, CEO of CA Technologies, has said federal government agencies should transition from the “built-to-last“ concept to the “built-to-change“ approach when modernizing information technology systems in an effort to protect IT infrastructure and data from security threats. Gregoire wrote in a Nextgov article published Thursday that the built-to-change concept …
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FireEye has collaborated with Microsoft to analyze a command and control obfuscated tool that attempted to compromise the security of a Microsoft-run information technology community portal. FireEye said Thursday it determined that the China-based hacker group APT17 employed an obfuscation method to encode C2 communications on Microsoft TechNet website’s profile …
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Just days after Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke announced a proposed Identity Ecosystem, the National Institute of Standards and Technology launched a new website with more information on the Obama administration's forthcoming National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, which seeks to help establish voluntary identity solutions and privacy-enhancing technologies …
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt will today meet with local industry and academic leaders in Silicon Valley to discuss the Obama administration's efforts to enhance online security and privacy in a growing cyber world. The event will be available at 2 p.m. ET …
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