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Category: cybercrime/malcode – Page 269
You say you want a revolution: DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge
DARPA’s self-repairing security system’s challenge.
In a few weeks, a town better known for events like the World Series of Poker will host the World Series of Hacking.
The finals of the Cyber Grand Challenge, which will be held by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the DEFCON security conference in Las Vegas next month, aim to see if a high performance computer system can discover and patch security systems automatically — without human intervention.
Seven teams will compete in the finals in front of 5,000 spectators packed into the Paris Las Vegas auditorium, waiting to see if a computer will be able to put the best human penetration testers and security researchers to shame.
4 cyberattacks in 1 year make British rail network potential commuter deathtrap
Yikes.
Britain’s railway network is notoriously overpriced, overcrowded, and experiences frequent delays. Now cyberattacks are threatening to turn the morning commute into a deathtrap as well.
The world’s oldest railway system has been the victim of four major cyberattacks in the past year alone, security experts claim.
Hackers, thought to be computer specialists working for foreign governments, are believed to be behind the online aggression, which could allow them to take control the railway’s physical infrastructure.
Berkshire offers cyber cover for architects and engineers
Not shocked by this because I have seen some of these policies in various forms already.
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Co. on Tuesday said it has launched a U.S. professional liability policy for architects and engineers that includes cyber coverage.
Professional First Architects & Engineers Professional Liability Insurance’s cyber coverage addresses media, technology and network security and privacy liability exposures, including the cost of responding to a data breach or network extortion threat, BHSI said in a statement.
The coverage also includes access to a network of experts to assist in responding to a data breach or extortion threat, and risk management services including contract reviews, newsletters and best practices webinars, according to the statement.
Technical Failure, Not Hackers, Took Down NATO-Linked Websites
Makes me wonder how much money was spent on this technical masterpiece.
WARSAW—Officials blamed technical failure—not a cyberattack—for the recent outages of two websites affiliated with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
NATO’s cybersecurity experts were on heightened alert for cyberattacks during the alliance’s biennial summit, which has seen the organization’s top leaders gather in the Polish capital this week.
The main websites of the U.S.-based Allied Transformation Command and Germany-based NATO School, a subordinate unit to the transformation command, were down for several hours Thursday.
