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White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt is set to retire at the end of May after a two and a half year stint, the Washington Post reports.

Schmidt told the Post he plans to retire in order to spend more time with his family and to pursue opportunities to teach in the cyber field.

Nakashima reports Michael Daniel, chief of the Office of Management and Budget’s intelligence branch, has been named as Schmidt’s successor.

Daniel has spent time with the OMB working on issues affecting the intelligence community and coordinating funding for the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative.

During his tenure with the White House, Schmidt played a part in creating the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace.

His team was also responsible for identifying U.S. critical system vulnerabilities and allocating funds to mitigate problematic areas.

He has also coordinated with the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.

Schmidt detailed three main areas that agencies should focus on for cybersecurity in March, including continuous monitoring, using trusted Internet connection and additional password practices.

Televisiezender RTL heeft een beveiligingsexpert gevraagd om bij 25 webwinkels in te breken, wat onder andere een database met de gegevens van 95.000 klanten opleverde.

Howard A. Schmidt, the first-ever U.S. cybersecurity coordinator, has resigned and will retire later this month to enter academia

Een 21-jarige Brit is tot 12 maanden gevangenisstraf veroordeeld wegens het hacken van een Facebook-account.

In de Verenigde Staten is een 28-jarige man opgepakt na het hacken van de computer en sociale netwerkprofielen van twee voormalige kennissen.

The Shadowserver Foundation reported that attackers are leveraging Adobe Flash Player and Java vulnerabilities to target human rights groups and political think tanks with drive-by exploits to infect visitors. – Hackers are targeting Websites for human rights and foreign policy think tanks to spread malware and to conduct cyber-espionage.
According to the Shadowserver Foundation, attackers have launched a series of “strategic Web compromises” that infect users via drive-by exploits. Attacks targeting human…

MoldySpore writes “If anyone has tried to get to The Pirate Bay in the last 24 hours, they have most likely been met with a timeout. As an article on TorrentFreak notes, only a week ago The Pirate Bay scolded Anonymous for its attack on ISP Virgin Media, and now the site is currently the victim of a DDoS attack that is effectively keeping people from viewing the site. There is a lot of speculation as to whether this is retaliation from Anonymous, the work of an agency such as the RIAA and their associates, or an anti-pirate company such as PiratePay.”

Cyberwarfare? Pimple-faced teenagers? Someone screwed up the routing tables?

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Wikipedia waarschuwt bezoekers dat als ze advertenties op de populaire gratis encyclopedie te zien krijgen, hun computer met malware is besmet.

IT-bedrijf Sogeti organiseert tijdens de Hack in the Box conferentie in Amsterdam een wedstrijd om de Top 100 Nederlandse bedrijven te social engineeren.