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Obama will appoint Cyber Czar to coordinate efforts to secure government networks and U.S. critical infrastructures. The czar will be responsible for orchestrating and integrating all cyber security policies for the government, working with the Office of Management and Budget to ensure that agencies have money allocated for cyber security priorities, and coordinating the government’s response to a major cyber incident or attack.

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) a privacy group based in Washington, D.C filed a petition to Federal trade commission to investigate the Google’s cloud computing offerings. They asked FTC to investigate products including Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar and Picasa — to determine “the adequacy of the privacy and security safeguards.” The group cites various [...]

CoSoSys developer of Endpoint Security solutions started publishing the security alerts in a different way. Though a series of comic stripes, company wants to create awareness about the security issues and well to market their latest product. This educational series of comics deals with everyday IT Security risks like Data Theft, Data Loss, Data Leakage [...]

‘Google docs’ has admitted that they have shared few of the online documents to others without permission. Google says only 0.05% of the documents were affected and they have fixed the bug. It’s a wake up call for all those who still believe that the cloud computing is matured and reliable. Here is the note [...]

Beckstrom headed the National Cyber security Center, which coordinated all government cyber security efforts. Beckstrom said in his resignation letter that the cyber security group did not receive adequate support from President George W. Bush. He criticized the excessive role of the National Security Agency in countering threats to the country’s computer systems. His resignation [...]

Gmail is down for almost 4 hours now and this is the message thats displayed by Google when we try to access the inbox

Gmail and Google apps are down for almost 2 hours now. News, reader etc are working fine. Everyone getting 502/503 after few minutes n loading the page. Nothing official from Google at the moment but it seems that the problem is widespread as more and more people tweet the same in twitter. http://search.twitter.com/search?q=gmail Last month [...]

Ever noticed the “https:” in the URL on your address bar and the small padlock which docks itself nicely at the bottom of your window? Well, if the answer is “Yes”, you were checking a website which has the SSL transmission protocol implemented. Earlier, we were all apprehensive in making an online payment because we [...]

YTFakeCreator a new tool now available in p2p network creates fake youtube pages and convince the user to download some additional plugins to play the video. The malware that’s distributed include Trojans, virus and spyware. This does not spread on it own, the attacker must distribute the link manually. The malware detected by panda security [...]

This July 17th marks the eleventh anniversary of the famous internet crash. How did the internet crash; the network which was designed to withstand all sorts of catastrophe; even the nuclear warhead crashed? Internet was designed to be decentralized self governance network using its vast network of machines and root servers. No one controls the [...]