HealthSec '11 Submission Deadline Extended to April 12 |
- HealthSec '11 Submission Deadline Extended to April 12
- Hacker Sitcom Breaking In Taps Espionage-Lite Trend
- Israel mulls creation of elite counter-cyberterrorist unit
- Windows servers hacked at The Hartford insurance company
- Attackers find old vulnerabilities are still the best
| HealthSec '11 Submission Deadline Extended to April 12 Posted: InfoSec News: HealthSec '11 Submission Deadline Extended to April 12: Forwarded from: Lionel Garth Jones <lgj (at) usenix.org> The submission deadline for the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Health Security and Privacy (HealthSec '11) has been extended, but is almost here. Please submit all work by Tuesday, April 12, 2011, at 11:59 p.m. UTC (7:59 p.m. EDT). [...] |
| Hacker Sitcom Breaking In Taps Espionage-Lite Trend Posted: InfoSec News: Hacker Sitcom Breaking In Taps Espionage-Lite Trend: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/04/hacker-sitcom-breaking-in/ By Hugh Hart Underwire Wired.com April 6, 2011 The hackers in new comedy Breaking In look as though they spend more time at the gym than they do hunched over a computer. Hollywood-handsome, these sitcom tech wizards may not walk the awkward nerd walk, but they do get to work in an office anchored by Captain Kirk’s Star Trek chair. Debuting Wednesday, Breaking In centers on geeky high-tech consultants hired by clients to detect breaches in their security systems. In an era rife with institutional larceny, leaky intelligence and high-level buffoonery, it’s one of several TV shows that are in no mood to present espionage in an entirely serious light. NBC’s Chuck, for example, casts an everyday schlub as a key player in intelligence operations. CBS’ new dramedy Chaos, titled in homage to Maxwell Smart’s nemeses at KAOS, offers up operatives practiced in the craft of cynical asides. FX Network’s animated Archer showcases doofus spies, while USA Network’s Burn Notice equips its former CIA agents with expertise in pyrotechnics, surveillance and wisecracks. They all operate in the somber shadow of 24’s relentless antiterrorist Jack Bauer, the grim character whose exploits defined for nearly a decade the deadly earnest anxieties faced by Americans in the early post-9/11 years. But the strain of eternal vigilance took its toll by the time Fox’s action series ended its run last May. Now espionage programs lean on goofy, Get Smart-style attitude more than earnest patriotism. [...] |
| Israel mulls creation of elite counter-cyberterrorist unit Posted: InfoSec News: Israel mulls creation of elite counter-cyberterrorist unit: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/06/isreal_mulls_elite_counter_hacker_unit/ By John Leyden The Register 6th April 2011 Israel is mulling the creation of a counter-cyberterrorism unit designed to safeguard both government agencies and core private sector firms against hacking attacks. [...] |
| Windows servers hacked at The Hartford insurance company Posted: InfoSec News: Windows servers hacked at The Hartford insurance company: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215582/Windows_servers_hacked_at_The_Hartford_insurance_company By Robert McMillan IDG News Service April 6, 2011 Hackers have broken into The Hartford insurance company and installed password-stealing programs on several of the company's Windows servers. [...] |
| Attackers find old vulnerabilities are still the best Posted: InfoSec News: Attackers find old vulnerabilities are still the best: http://gcn.com/articles/2011/04/05/hp-cybersecurity-report-old-vulnerabilities.aspx By William Jackson GCN.com April 05, 2011 The number of new vulnerabilities being discovered has leveled off for the past two years and is well down from its 2006 peak, according to a [...] |
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