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With Gratitude, Milestone Hit: Cybersecurity News Turns 1
As the House Judiciary and Oversight committees both take to the cybersecurity debate with hearings on the Hill today, not far away, Cybersecurity News is holding its own little cyber soiree.
With much gratitude, Cybersecurity News marks its first anniversary. Thank you to all subscribers, readers, followers and friends for providing motivation and support, as well as news tips and tweets on the latest technology and security happenings over the past year.
Cheers to future endeavors!
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Obama Administration Pushes for More National, International Cyber Oversight
Cybersecurity strategy is key, or so it seems for the Obama administration, which, over the past week, laid out both national and international plans for cyberspace.
On Thursday, the White House released its much-anticipated ‘Cybersecurity Legislative Proposal,’ calling for IT advancements to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure, Federal Government computers and networks, as well as the American people.
Under the draft legislation, provided at the request of several Senate committee chairs, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would be called upon to ramp up its cyber efforts, while working with industry to identify threats and vulnerabilities on a multifaceted level.
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Third Time a Charm for Sony?
Sony Corporation continues to take a hit in the media headlines this week, following a series of cyber attacks that brought down its Internet gaming giant, the PlayStation Network, and jeopardized as many as 100 million users’ accounts.
The breach, which was first reported late last month, “resulted from a very carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated criminal cyber attack designed to steal personal and credit card information for illegal purposes,” a Sony executive told the Associated Press.
According to reports, the hackers’ first cyber hit on the Sony servers granted them access to roughly 77 million email addresses and credit card data. But the breach didn’t end there.
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