Page 274 - Computer Security News Today

Have ris in the recent past, specifically around benghazi and what happened in libya. megyn: the cia directors sudden resignation throwing a wrench into the hearing on the libya attack. what the white house just said about having general petraeus testify on libya. this mans name is synonymous with computer security. but software pioneer john mcafee is in trouble with the law. see why hes the prime suspect in a murder investigation.

>> there was a big disagreement between senator mccain and secretary panetta about the u.s. going alone into syria. mccain made a very strong point going back to the 90s saying, look, when the atrocities were happening in bosnia, the united states acted and its time for us to act here. he had a very pointed question to panetta saying, how many more tens of thousands have to die before youre willing to go in? but panetta countered and said, look, im not going to send american troops, me...

Prohibited by chinese law but u.s. firms scoff at that denial and say chinese and russian and other foreign cyber attacks are increasing in complexity and frequency. >> fiscal year 2011 alone our u.s. computer emergency readiness, team, u.s. crt, responded to more than 100,000 incident reports and repleased more than 5,000 actionable cybersecurity alerts and information products and we know only a small proportion of cyber incidents are currently reported to the government. >> reporter: it is wi...

Bloodied at the same time. >> iran declared a cyber war on the west. assembled cyber armies. they attached a dutch computer security firm and threatened to do more. >> [ inaudible ] given that iran has lots of sources, financially sources. a huge amount of revenue from the political region is there. we want to destruct the west. >> they warned of something big to come but they wouldnt say what or when. there may be bluster there, but experts say never sell anyone short in cyber space, because th...

Bloodied at the same time. >> iran declared a cyber war on the west. assembled cyber armies. they attached a dutch computer security firm and threatened to do more. >> [ inaudible ] given that iran has lots of sources, financially sources. a huge amount of revenue from the political region is there. we want to destruct the west. >> they warned of something big to come but they wouldnt say what or when. there may be bluster there, but experts say never sell anyone short in cyber space, because th...

Prominent internet security companies hackers in china are targeting american chemical and military companies as part of an effort to steal already-developed technology. shibani joshi with the fox business network joins us now. pretty serious stuff were talking about. >> absolutely serious, jon. cybercrime, espionage, trade secrets, all the making of a great spy movie or spy novel out there but not so entertaining when it happens to big u.s. companies are on our own soil. a big u.s. computer sec...

Through a window, falling ten stories. and police have not identified the other woman, who suffered broken bones. police are calling it an accident. and defense giant lockheed martin is confirming that hackers broke into the computer system. fortunately, the company says no sensitive information was taken. lockheed martin the nations top defense contractor holds highly sensitive information about u.s. weapons and the pentagon says its working with the company to improve this computer security. a...

So theres some pretty serious questions to be asked of sony in this situation. were their procedures secure enough? >> reporter: rick ferguson is both a sony playstation customer and an expert on computer security. he says everyone needs to learn from this. >> the big lesson certainly for sony and any other company holding personal information, store it securely, store it encrypted. make sure you adequately test your network and your security. the lesson for consumers, really make sure that your...

Time to check our top stories. theres a new development in the massive leak of classified military papers deal with afghanistan. an m.i.t. graduate admits that he met army private bradley manning at m.i.t. back in january when manning was on leave. manning is a suspected source of the leak. the grad says he and manning exchanged a number of e-mails about computer security. but says he had nothing to do with leaking the documents. in russia, officials say firefighters are finally getting contro...

Of the leak. the grad says he and manning exchanged a number of e-mails about computer security but says he had nothing to do with leaking the documents. in russia, officials say firefighters are finally getting control over some of the worst wildfires the country has ever seen. at least 30 people have been killed. almost 5,000 others are now homeless. russias deal with a major drought and scorching temperatures this summer. officials say the fires have burned more than 300,000 acres so far. ...