BB&T Corp. confirms it's been hit by a DDoS attack, making it the ninth U.S. bank to be targeted in five weeks. The online outage at BB&T comes on the heels of the attack that hit Capital One on Oct. 16.
Capital One confirmed it was hit by a second distributed denial of service attack. The hacktivist group Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters warned about additional bank attacks this week.
Cyberthieves are exploiting weaknesses in the U.S. payments infrastructure as an easy-to-travel avenue for access to intellectual capital, says risk consultant Bill Wansley. What can be done to stop them?
Debate surrounding the Cybersecurity Act has focused on whether the government should regulate privately owned, critical IT systems. But the bill also would make significant changes on how government governs IT security, co-sponsor Sen. Tom Carper says. See how.
DHS will deploy sensors to agencies, generating the needed 60 billion to 80 billion vulnerability-and-configuration-setting checks every one-to-three days across the .gov network.
NIST's Ron Ross will be quite busy at RSA Conference 2012, not only promoting revised guidance on security and privacy controls to be unveiled at the securing conclave, but also participating in a panel on one of his favorite topics: continuous monitoring.
People, as much as anything else, are a critical aspect of information risk management, and businesses and government agencies must monitor employees - and educate them, as well - to thwart a potential threat from within.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking public comment on three draft interagency reports that provide guidance on the continuous monitoring of information systems for security vulnerabilities.
As organizations move to the continuous monitoring of their IT systems to assure they're secure, they rely much more on automated processes. But don't forget the role people play.
New guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology defines an information security continuous monitoring strategy and shows how organizations can create an information security continuous monitoring program.
The shift to monthly reports of key metrics through CyberScope from annual FISMA filings allows security practitioners to make decisions using more information and more quickly than ever before, OMB Director Jacob Lew says.
The soon-to-be issued FY 2011 Chief Information Officer FISMA Reporting Metrics from the Department of Homeland Security will require agencies to report on their progress in automating the continuous measurement of the most critical security risks.
Computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have released five draft documents on various aspects of information security, and NIST is seeking comments on those drafts.
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