Agency cybersecurity teams have not been accepted by IT shops as full partners in the job of supporting agency missions and as a result are falling farther behind in efforts to detect and block threats, said security analyst Mischel Kwon.

 

It’s the question of the moment inside the murky realm of cybersecurity: Just who — or what — is the Syrian Electronic Army?

 

In the wake of the AP scandal, in which federal investigators obtained the phone records of journalists using only a subpoena, four lawmakers have introduced legislation in the House that would prevent federal agencies from seizing any phone records without a court order.

 

The four British Lulzsec hackers — Mustafa "tflow" al-Bassam, Ryan "kayla" Ackroyd, Jake "topiary" Davis, and Ryan "ViraL" Cleary — have been sentenced to between 20 and 32 months in jail for crimes committed during Lulzsec's

Hackers have become adept at modifying malicious code to avoid detection by signature-based security tools so that even well-known malware such as the Poison Ivy Remote Access Tool can slip past defenses.