A couple of months ago, the US Dept of Homeland Security announced they wanted to recruit 1,000 cyber security professionals over the next three years.  The process has started.

Security software company, PC Tools, says it has identified a new way cyber criminals are trying to prey on the fans of the Twilight series with anticipation of the upcoming “New Moon” movie, which comes out tomorrow, reaching a fever pitch. 

America takes national security very seriously and that applies, too, to Internet security, with no-less than President Obama going online with a video address calling on all Americans to heed a cybersecurity call-to-action and for government, the private sector and everyday citizens to focus on their own responsibilities for security on the net.

According to Roland Dobbins, solutions architect for network security specialist Arbor Networks, distributed denial of service attacks are one of the must under-rated and ill-guarded against security threats to corporate IT, and in particular the biggest threat facing cloud computing.

Experts on computer-related crime from the Australian Institute of Criminology Dr Russell Smith and Dr Raymond Choo, will both present key findings on cyber crime to the House of Representatives Communications Committee's first public hearing for its Inquiry into Cyber Crime tomorrow, 19 August.

Cybercrime experts, including representatives of the US Secret Service, will confer with Australian law enforcers, government, the judiciary and the legal profession at the Australian High Tech Crime Conference next week at the University of Technology, Sydney.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) says it is engaging in a new partnership with Australian telco Telstra to “strengthen its world-leading capability in countering new technology-enabled crime”.

Symantec’s latest report on the “underground economy” shows that online criminals are enjoying their biggest ever boom, just as the world is experiencing economic turmoil. Never before has online crime been so big or so bad – but there definitely are things you can do to protect yourself!

Cyber DefCon 5 is defined as being effective when malicious nation to nation attacks with the intent to destroy communication infrastructures as well as disable business processes occur. Georgia is at a state of Cyber DefCon 5. No prizes for guessing who is doing the attacking...

Five of the biggest names in IT - IBM, Intel, Microsoft and arch-rivals Juniper Networks and Cisco have banded together to fight Internet security threats, just a month after the Malaysian Government put up $US13m to create an international partnership against cyber terrorism.