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First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Boeing Company

Mitigating ICS System Vulnerabilities with SimpleConnect -- an ICS-ISAC Public Briefing

- ARLINGTON, Va. -- Join us Tuesday June 4th when David Mattes founder of Asguard Networks will provide a solution oriented discussion on mitigating the exposure of vulnerable industrial control systems using SimpleConnect. This drop-in cybersecurity ... [Published Prlog - May 22 2013]

Entities: Industrial Control Systems, Information Sharing & Analysis Center, Cyber Security, Boeing Company, Network Infrastructure

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Building Trust Among Cyber Tribes

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing my good friend Chris Blask, Chair of the Industrial Control System Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ICS-ISAC), about the Evolution of Industrial Control System Information Sharing. In the article, Blask ... [Published Security Bloggers Network - May 17 2013]

Entities: Tribe, Industrial Control Systems, Information Sharing & Analysis Center

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 3 reports

Court Data Breach Could Affect Up To 1 Million In Washington State

OLYMPIA -- The Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) recently announced that a data breach occurred recently on its public website. According to AOC, no court records were altered and no financial data was maintained on the site. ... [Published Seattle Medium - May 17 2013]

Entities: Social Security, Information Sharing & Analysis Center, Cyber Threat, State Court

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 2 reports

Universities Offer Practical Advice for Securing DNS

The Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center, or REN-ISAC, recently issued an alert to administrators and IT staffers at some of the world’s most notable institutions of higher learning that urges them to take the matter ... [Published Security Week - May 16 2013]

Entities: AdvICE™, Steve Ragan, Solvent

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Academic Institutions Warned About Configuration Issues That Could be Exploited to Launch DDoS Attack (May 10, 2013)

The Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC) is advising academic institutions to take precautions to make sure their computer systems are not hijacked and used in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks....... ... [Published SANS NewsBites - May 15 2013]

Entities: DDoS Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack, Information Sharing & Analysis Center, Hijacker

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

FSOC: Financial Regulators Warn of Ongoing Cyber Attacks

The federal government issued a strong warning to the financial services sector: Beware of cyber threats, according to the recently released 2012 Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) report . The FSOC report, which fulfills a Congressional ... [Published Security Bloggers Network - May 15 2013]

Entities: Cyber Attack, Information Sharing & Analysis Center, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 2 reports

Universities get schooled on DNS amplification attacks

Colleges and universities are getting a piece of advice when it comes to the growing problem of distributed denial of service attacks that exploit the Domain Name System: Don’t be a part of the problem.The Research and Education Networking Information ... [Published GCN - May 14 2013]

Entities: Amplification, DDoS Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack, Doug Pearson, Information Sharing & Analysis Center, Domain Name System

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 2 reports

Hackers obtain information from state courts office

OLYMPIA — The Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) announced that a data breach occurred recently on its public website. No court records were altered when the website was hacked, and no financial data was maintained on the site. ... [Published Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal - May 13 2013]

Entities: Social Security, Computer Hacker, courts

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 3 reports

Academic institutions urged to take steps to prevent DNS amplification attacks

REN-ISAC advises members to secure their DNS servers and implement network filtering to prevent spoofingMay 10, 2013, 12:42 PM Colleges and universities are being encouraged to scrutinize their systems to keep them from being hijacked in DDoS (distributed ... [Published ITworld.com - May 10 2013]

Entities: Doug Pearson, Amplification, DDoS Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 9 reports

Adobe security failure of the DAY: 160K SSNs exposed

Yesterday I wrote about Adobe's latest security nightmare, this time involving web development environment ColdFusion. I also stressed that while aware of the problem, the company didn't plan a fix until May 14, during its next monthly patch release. ... [Published Beta News - May 10 2013]

Entities: Adobe Systems Inc, Security, Cyber Threat, Adobe ColdFusion

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Higher Education and Research Community Warned About DDOS Attacks Abusing Their Systems

Experts have often warned that open domain name system (DNS) resolvers are being abused by cybercriminals to intensify their distributed denial-of-service attacks. On Wednesday, the Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center ... [Published Softpedia - May 09 2013]

Entities: DDoS Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack, Higher Education, Information Sharing & Analysis Center, Cybercrime

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Evolution of Information Sharing -- an ICS-ISAC Public Briefing

- ARLINGTON, Va. -- Join us Wednesday May 15th 1-2:30 pm ET when ICS-ISAC Chair Chris Blask will host a panel discussion on the evolution of public-private information sharing. Topics will begin with an analysis of historical information sharing efforts ... [Published Prlog - May 06 2013]

Entities: Information Sharing, Industrial Control Systems, Evolution, Information Sharing & Analysis Center

Quotes

...mitigate cyber security threats for a range of users, including state and local governments, law enforcement and state homeland security advisors. "We can make strong analytical conclusions about what may be happening with future cyber attacks, threats and intrusions" Licht says

Integrated Intelligence Center helps governments address physical, cyber security [Published Security Director News - May 13 2013]

"Once the breach was discovered, AOC [Administrative Office of the Courts] took immediate action to further secure the environment and begin investigation and analysis into the depth and severity of the breach. In addition, AOC collaborated with the Washington State Consolidated Technology Services (CTS) and the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) for internet security, who provided valuable information in determining the scope of this security breach. MS-ISAC is a focal point for cyber threat prevention, protection, response and recovery for the nation's state, local, territorial and tribal governments. The MS-ISAC 24×7 cyber security operations center provides real-time network monitoring, early cyber threat warnings and advisories, vulnerability identification, and mitigation and incident response. AOC has implemented significant security enhancements to ensure that our systems and data are secure and to prevent the potential for future compromise" the court system said in a statement on its site

US data breach exposes 160,000 social security numbers [Published Computing.co.uk - May 13 2013]

"The REN-ISAC wants to raise awareness and drive change concerning common network and domain name system (DNS) configurations that fall short of accepted best practice and which, if left unchecked, open the door for your institution to be exploited as an unwitting partner to crippling denial of service attacks against third parties" said Doug Pearson, technical director of REN-ISAC, in an alert sent Wednesday to the organization's members

Academic institutions urged to take steps to prevent DNS amplification attacks [Published ITworld.com - May 10 2013]

...Anti-spoofing should be applied on all Internet-facing networks so that spoofed packets cannot originate from them. "The closer we get to universal application of BCP 38, the harder it becomes for attackers to launch DDoS amplification attacks of any kind."

Academic Institutions Urged to Take Steps to Prevent DNS Amplification Attacks [Published CIO Magazine - May 10 2013]

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Mitigating ICS System Vulnerabilities with Simp... [Published Prlog - May 22 2013]
Brobot: Information Sharing Lessons Learned [Published Security Week - May 20 2013]
Building Trust Among Cyber Tribes [Published Security Bloggers Network - May 17 2013]
Court Data Breach Could Affect Up To 1 Million ... [Published Seattle Medium - May 17 2013]
The Evolution of Industrial Control System Info... [Published Infosec Island - May 16 2013]
Court Breach Leads Roundup [Published Bank Info Security - May 16 2013]
Universities Offer Practical Advice for Securin... [Published Security Week - May 16 2013]
Washington State Court Website Breached [Published Government Info Security - May 16 2013]
Universities Offer Practical Advice for Securin... [Published SecurityWeek RSS Feed - May 16 2013]
Academic Institutions Warned About Configuratio... [Published SANS NewsBites - May 15 2013]
FSOC: Financial Regulators Warn of Ongoing Cybe... [Published Security Bloggers Network - May 15 2013]
Universities get schooled on DNS amplification ... [Published GCN - May 14 2013]
Colleges vulnerable to DDoS attack, report finds [Published University Business - May 14 2013]
Integrated Intelligence Center helps government... [Published Security Director News - May 13 2013]
Hackers obtain information from state courts of... [Published Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal - May 13 2013]
US data breach exposes 160,000 social security ... [Published Computing.co.uk - May 13 2013]
ALERT Smurf attack DNS amplification attacks [Published Cyberwarzone - May 11 2013]
Washington courts promise better security after... [Published King5.com - May 11 2013]
Governor Cuomo Announces Cyber Security Advisor... [Published Department of Financial Services - May 10 2013]
Academic institutions urged to take steps to pr... [Published ITworld.com - May 10 2013]
Academic Institutions Urged to Take Steps to Pr... [Published CIO Magazine - May 10 2013]
Academic institutions urged to take steps to pr... [Published PC World: Techlog - May 10 2013]
Adobe security failure of the DAY: 160K SSNs ex... [Published Beta News - May 10 2013]
State Administrative Office of the Courts annou... [Published Port Orchard Independent - May 10 2013]
Washington State Courts Reveal Security Breach [Published TechWeb - May 10 2013]
Server at Washington State Courts Office Hacked... [Published Security Week - May 10 2013]
Washington Court Data Breach Exposes 160K SSNs [Published threatpost - The First Stop for Security News - May 10 2013]
Academic institutions urged to improve network ... [Published Help Net Security - News - May 10 2013]
Wash. officials say state courts office was hacked [Published Investors Business Daily - May 09 2013]
Hackers Access SSNs from Wash. State Admin. Off... [Published KNDO KNDU - May 09 2013]

Blogs

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Building Trust Among Cyber Tribes [Published Security Bloggers Network - May 17 2013] I recently had the pleasure of interviewing my good friend Chris Blask, Chair of the Industrial Control System Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ICS-ISAC), about the Evolution of Industrial Control System Information Sharing. In the article, Blask ...
Universities Offer Practical Advice for Securin... [Published SecurityWeek RSS Feed - May 16 2013] The Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center, or REN-ISAC, recently issued an alert to administrators and IT staffers at some of the world’s most notable institutions of higher learning that urges them to take the matter ...
Academic Institutions Warned About Configuratio... [Published SANS NewsBites - May 15 2013] The Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC) is advising academic institutions to take precautions to make sure their computer systems are not hijacked and used in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks....... ...
FSOC: Financial Regulators Warn of Ongoing Cybe... [Published Security Bloggers Network - May 15 2013] The federal government issued a strong warning to the financial services sector: Beware of cyber threats, according to the recently released 2012 Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) report . The FSOC report, which fulfills a Congressional ...
Academic institutions urged to take steps to pr... [Published PC World: Techlog - May 10 2013] Colleges and universities are being encouraged to scrutinize their systems to keep them from being hijacked in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks. The Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC) advised ...

Press Releases

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RSA® Conference 2013 Announces Recipients of 16... [Published Business Wire Technology News - Feb 26 2013]
RSA® Conference 2013 Announces Recipients of 16... [Published EON Government & Public Policy - Feb 26 2013]
RSA® Conference 2013 Announces Recipients of 16... [Published EON Computers & Technology - Feb 26 2013]
RSA® Conference 2013 Announces Recipients of 16... [Published EON Business - Feb 26 2013]
RSA® Conference 2013 Announces Recipients of 16... [Published Business Wire Professional Services News - Feb 26 2013]