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Officials are concerned about proposed amendments to President Barack Obama’s Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. As the act makes it way through legislation, certain language and wording within proposed amendments could be too broad to define. For more on the CFAA, please click here:: Proposed CFAA Amendments Could Chill Security Research
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Evolve IP, a cloud services company, conducted a survey with 2,000 executive and IT pros and have discovered that over half of them aren’t properly prepared to recover their IT assets following a disaster or incident. Nearly 35% of respondents stated that their organization had already experienced an incident where disaster recovery was required. For more on this troubling statistic, click here:: Survey: most orgs not very prepared to recover IT assets following a disaster
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Cybercriminals with stolen usernames and passwords have broken into customer accounts at United and American Airlines and have gotten away with booking free trips and upgrades. United Airlines claim that the thieves tried to get their MileagePlus accounts through using logins from third-party sites that are unrelated to the airline. For more on story, click here:: Thieves hijack miles from American and United Airlines accounts
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A new website dubbed “Hacker’s List” was recently showcased on the New York Times. While it has been down due to high traffic, when the site is live it is a portal where people can put of listings seeking the services of a freelance hacker. For more about Hacker’s List, click here:: How to hire a hacker
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United States President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron have decided to team up their efforts to curb cyber-crime. The hope is to set up cyber cells on both sides of the pond and share information while also setting up methods to retaliate against cyberattacks. For more on this story, click here:: Obama and Cameron to Pledge Partnership Against Cybercrime
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