Washington Post Hacked

It makes lots of sense for a Hacktivist group that wishes to display their message and show that they exist – to go after high end media
Catch me if you can: Can we predict who will fall for phishing emails?

User-profiling is an interesting approach to countering phishing.
Government buying deep surveillance, monitoring equipment

Amid a raging global debate on privacy versus surveillance, monitoring and use of intrusive technologies by governments, the Directorate of Forensic Sciences in the Ministry of Home Affairs
Deja vu all over again? DOE to workers: We’ve been hacked

Getting an e-mail from your employer with the subject line “Cyber Incident” usually isn’t good news. Especially if you work for the U.S. Department of Energy and it’s the second time this year.
Cloud Trust Study: Security, Privacy and Reliability in the cloud get high marks with U.S. small to mid-sized businesses

This week I’m in Europe to share the results of a blind study that we commissioned with comScore to get a pulse on what small to mid-sized businesses (SMB) think about these topics in relation to cloud computing.
Gartner Survey Shows 75 Percent of Government CIO Budgets Flat or Increasing in 2013

Despite a continuing drive to lower the cost of IT services, nearly 75 percent of government IT budgets globally were reported as flat or increasing in 2013, according to the Gartner Executive Programs 2013 CIO Agenda survey.
80% of Irish technology companies plan to hire in next three months

A new survey has found that the majority of Irish technology companies plan to take on new staff in the next three months.
Fast Tracking AppSec Test Results – NT OBJECTives & Denim Group Partnership

Security tools today have been designed to provide reams of raw data about the security state of corporate applications.
Rackspace survey suggests the hybrid cloud model has won the game

Rackspace has published a new report suggesting that IT managers don’t want to decide between public and private cloud schemes.
IBM Buys Israel/US Cybersecurity Specialist Trusteer For Between $800M-$1B

Another exit for an Israeli enterprise startup and a deeper move into Israel by one of the world’s tech titans: IBM today announced the acquisition of Trusteer, a specialist in cybersecurity primarily for financial services.