Corporate-espionage, e-mail break-in case zaps electronics industry A corporate-espionage case in which an executive from electronics manufacturer, AMX Corp, broke into the e-mail system of the marketing firm working for a competitor Crestron Electronics to steal sensitive business information has rocked that industry. Is the U.S. ready for government-sponsored cyberattacks? If there’s a sudden cyberattack on the U.S. Navy, Jim Granger could be among the first to know since it’s his job to keep watch.“We monitor the Navy’s grid,” says Granger, who is director of capabilities and readiness at the Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command in Norfolk, Va., home to the Naval Network Warfare Command. Granger works with a team of cyber-defense operations specialists in a security operations center, hunkered down behind computers to keep an eye on networks the Navy uses -- such as the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet -- both on land and at sea. NSF wants $7B to head off demise of Moore's law, fund cybersecurity research and more The National Science Foundation is looking to spend a good chunk of its proposed $7.045 billion budget for FY 2010 on advanced network technologies. The overall budget would be an 8.5% increase over FY 2009’s and would include $1.1 billion on Networking and Information Technology R&D. FTC targets massive car warranty robocall scheme Robocalls are a scourge and the Federal Trade Commission today took action against them by asking a federal court to shut down companies that have been bombarding consumers with hundreds of millions of allegedly deceptive robocalls in an effort to sell vehicle service contracts. |
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