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Submission + - The Only 2013 Cybersecurity Predictions List You Need to Read (cio.com)

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Curseyoukhan
Curseyoukhan writes: "He read them all so you don't have to. This crack team of a researcher compiled and condensed all the painfully-obvious and self-serving 2013 cybersecurity-threat-prediction lists on the Web into a single tasty nugget. See the mighty experts say things like: 'Organizations must prepare for the unpredictable so they have the resilience to withstand unforeseen, high-impact events.' Ah, the life of the consultant."
Security

Submission + - Now Even Dumb Hackers Can Make Crime Pay (cio.com)

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Curseyoukhan
Curseyoukhan writes: "The stereotypical hacker, regardless of hat color, is a smart, nerdy, computer wizard. And while many real-life hackers probably fit the bill, not all of them are smart or nerdy. This week ExploitHub, whose motto is “Helping security professionals test MORE vulnerabilities, FASTER,” allowed a group calling itself the "Inj3ct0r Team" to test whether ExploitHub itself was vulnerable. The group quickly determined that it was."
Privacy

Submission + - Why Do Companies Bother to Protect Customer Data? (cio.com)

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Curseyoukhan
Curseyoukhan writes: "The upside to protecting consumer data is practically nonexistent, and the downside is barely any greater for the bottom line of most companies. Your business could have state-of-the-art protection or you could have the barest of bare bones security, and it wouldn't make any difference in the consumer-choice process. Furthermore the overwhelming majority of consumers could care less about privacy anyway. So why not just protect the stuff that's actually important to your business?"
Security

Submission + - New SCADA Vulnerability Reports are Old News (cio.com)

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Curseyoukhan
Curseyoukhan writes: "Do any of these videos, reports or warnings make us safer? Slightly, yes. But as several analysts have noted, the cost and scope of securing SCADA systems is astronomical. There is very little chance we can achieve any meaningful level of security for these systems. For now what we really have is détente, because nobody else's systems are much better."
Science

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: What do you see looking at an object a color human eye can't see? 4

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Curseyoukhan
Curseyoukhan writes: "I hope this question is not as dumb as it seems: If I am looking at an object A — which is a Long Wavelength or Far Infrared color — that is standing in front of object B — that is in the visible spectrum and is larger than Object A — what do I see? Is it object B? An outline of Object A? Something else? Nothing? A question that doesn't understand the problem?

This is for an SF story I am writing and is kind of important for it. All help appreciated. Thanks."
Media

Submission + - Cybersecurity Bill Dies; Presidential Directive Lives; Press Overreacts (cio.com)

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Curseyoukhan
Curseyoukhan writes: "The fact that the Senate bill would die had not gone unnoticed by the media, which immediately began inundating readers with calm and carefully considered reporting on the topic, like "Political Gridlock Leaves U.S. Facing Cyber Pearl Harbor." It begins with all the subtlety of a Roland "Day After Tomorrow" Emmerich movie:
"There’s almost universal agreement that the U.S. faces a catastrophic threat from cyber attacks by terrorists, hackers and spies."
This sentence makes perfect sense as long as you don’t stop to think about it. The phrase “almost universal agreement” is of course rhetorically and factually absurd. This is the United States. We can’t even almost universally agree that it’s okay to teach science in schools."
Businesses

Submission + - Irony Alert: Nigeria Increasingly Targeted by Cyber Criminals (cio.com)

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Curseyoukhan
Curseyoukhan writes: "Symantec says the land of countless bankers, princes and businessmen who all need your help accessing their funds, is becoming a huge target for cyber criminals. Apparently the Nigerians can't learn from their own actions: “The problem is that Nigeria does not really appreciate the magnitude of cybercrime and how it can derail an economy," says the Symantec's regional chief for Africa."

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