Utah's $1.5 billion cyber-security center under way

Utah's $1.5 billion cyber-security center under way

Utah's $1.5 billion cyber-security center under way

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InfoSec News: Utah's $1.5 billion cyber-security center under way: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705363940/Utahs-15-billion-cyber-security-center-under-way.html
By Steve Fidel Deseret News Jan. 6, 2011
CAMP WILLIAMS -- Thursday's groundbreaking for a $1.5 billion National Security Agency data center is being billed as important in the short [...]

Bad job switches and hard feelings

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InfoSec News: Bad job switches and hard feelings: http://blogs.csoonline.com/1324/bad_job_switches_and_hard_feelings
By CSO Salted Hash IT security news analysis, over easy! 2011-01-06
Some readers saw our "What it's like to make the wrong job switch" [1] story as a slam against IOActive. That's unfortunate. [...]

Hackers find new way to cheat on Wall Street -- to everyone's peril

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InfoSec News: Hackers find new way to cheat on Wall Street -- to everyone's peril: http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/hackers-find-new-way-cheat-wall-street-everyones-peril-699
By Bill Snyder Tech's Bottom Line January 06, 2011
High-frequency trading networks, which complete stock market transactions in microseconds, are vulnerable to manipulation by hackers [...]

Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2011-01

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InfoSec News: Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2011-01: ========================================================================
The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary 2010-12-30 - 2011-01-06
This week: 21 advisories [...]

Police Publish Images of Two Sought in Codebreaker’s Death

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InfoSec News: Police Publish Images of Two Sought in Codebreaker's Death: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/codebreakers-death/
By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com January 6, 2011
In an effort to identify two people who may be connected to the mysterious death of a top British codebreaker, authorities have published images of a man and woman who entered his apartment building weeks before his death.
Gareth Williams, 31, was found dead and naked in a North Face duffel bag in the bathtub of his flat last August. The sports bag was padlocked on the outside.
The two, said to be in their 20s and of Mediterranean appearance, were let in to Williams’ building by another tenant in late June or July. They told the tenant they had keys to Williams’ flat but indicated they knew him as Pier Paolo.
Williams, described by those who knew him as a “math genius,” worked for the U.K.’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) helping to break coded Taliban communications, among other things. He was just completing a year-long stint with MI6, Britain’s secret intelligence service, when he died. The flat where he lived was part of a network of flats registered to an offshore front company and rented out to GCHQ workers.
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