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23 Apr 2009

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Brazilians Have Been Hacking U.S. Navy Satellites with Homemade Gear for Years

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With all of the news surrounding the breach of the $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter program dominating the airwaves these days, there is a smaller and just as interesting story that popped up on Wired about a crackdown of Brazilian hackers who have continuously overtaken a U.S. Navy communications satellite.

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08 Apr 2009

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Cyberspies Have Penetrated the U.S. Electrical Grid

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Once again, cybersecurity is coming to the top of the list of concerns/priorities for the security of our nation. You all may have seen our coverage yesterday of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) urging the Obama Administration to move forward with naming a czar to lead a cyber security overhaul. Well, INSA is right. We need to act soon because cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electricity grid.

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21 Jan 2009

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Obama Cybersecurity Plan “Golden Opportunity” for Industry

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Forrester Research just issued a report on President Obama’s Cybersecurity plan, which could present tremendous opportunities for security vendors to win contracts supporting these efforts. Below is an article from Network World on the report and the impact this effort will have on industry:

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