Hackers Steal Millions in Carbon Credits
Credit card numbers are so passe. Today’s hackers know the real powerhouse data to steal is emission certificates. That’s exactly what hackers went after last week when they obtained unauthorized access to online accounts where companies maintain their carbon credits, according to the German newspaper Der Spiegel . The hackers launched a targeted phishing attack against employees of numerous companies in Europe, New Zealand and Japan, which appeared to come from the German Emissions Trading Authority . The workers were told that their companies needed to re-register their accounts with the Authority, where carbon…
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U.S. Declassifies Part of Secret Cybersecurity Plan
[Security]The Obama administration declassified part of the government’s cybersecurity plan, publishing parts of it that discuss intrusion detection systems for federal computer networks and the government’s role in securing critical infrastructure. The declassified portion of the plan includes information on the deployment of Einstein 2 and Einstein 3...
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Obama's 'emergency' powers over Internet: Cybersecurity Bill
[Security]It's proposed that the White House should have emergency powers to control the Internet. A bill would give Barack Obama 'cybersecurity' authority to disconnect users and professionally certify IT people. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers get really spun up about it.
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Obama Makes Plans to Protect U.S. Cyberspace
[Space]President Obama on Friday designated cyber security as a national security priority, announced plans to select a cyber-security coordinator within the White House, and released a 76-page cyberspace action plan.
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Put NSA in Charge of CyberSecurity Or the Power Grid Gets It
[Security]They're baaaack. Those impish Chinese government cyber-saboteurs we last saw posing as 20-foot high trees to trigger the 2003 northeast power outage are back in an all new adventure, this time in the pages of the Wall Street Journal.
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Unplug the Internet: No President should have this power
[Tech Industry News]The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 introduced in the Senate would allow the president to shut down private Internet networks. The legislation also calls for the government to have the authority to demand security data from private networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule or policy restricting such access.


























