Entries tagged with “cyberattacks”

Senate Commerce Committee Approves Rockefeller-Snowe Cybersecurity Act

We will post a link to the amended legislation as soon as it is released by the Committee.The Senate Commerce Committee press release --WASHINGTON, D.C.—Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R-ME), a senior member of the committee, issued the following statements today after the Commerce Committee favorably reported out the Rockefeller-Snowe Cybersecurity Act.“Our future is literally being stolen from us. Cyber attacks and hackers are at work raiding property and proprietary information from U.S. companies and innovators,” said Chairman Rockefeller. “The status quo is... More

International Cybercrime Reporting and Cooperation Act introduced this afternoon

Senators Gillibrand and Hatch this afternoon introduced their cybersecurity bill, the International Cybercrime Reporting and Cooperation Act. The complete text of the bill is not yet available online, but the press release does include the details of the bill, which include: (1) an annual Presidential report on the state of other countries' use of communication infrastructure and the extent of cybercrime in those countries; (2) providing assistance to countries with low information, telecommunications and communications penetration in order to prevent these countries from being cybercrime havens; (3) indentify countries of cybercrime concern; (4) suspend benefits to countries that fail to... More

Update from ComputerWorld on Denial of Service Attacks

Article says that likely source of last week's massive DDOS attacks was the U.K. and not North Korea.Link here... More

North Korea behind denial of service attacks?

Reports today are indicating that several South Korean Web sites have been attacked again. Several officials have voiced speculation that North Korea was behind both today's denial of service attacks and last week's wave of outages that hit sites in both the U.S. and South Korea. No comment from Pyongyang.The official news agency in South Korea says that today, seven sites - one belonging to the government and the others to private entities - were attacked.The U.S. targets included the White House, Pentagon, Treasury Department and the Nasdaq stock exchange. These attacks demonstrate the vulnerability of the global government and... More
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