Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Feel Safer Yet?
shiny-new Cybersecurity-Czar
The decision to appoint Howard A. Schmidt, an industry executive with government experience who served as a cybersecurity adviser in the Bush administration and who also has a military and law enforcement background, is seen as a compromise between factions. Government officials and industry executives say there has been a behind-the-scenes dispute over whether strict new regulations are necessary to protect the network that increasingly weaves together the vast majority of the world’s computers.
Mr. Schmidt will report to the National Security Council — not both to the council and to the National Economic Council, ... also “have regular access to the president,”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing a computer-security breach targeting Citigroup Inc. that resulted in a theft of tens of millions of dollars by computer hackers who appear linked to a Russian cyber gang, according to government officials…
The Citibank attack was detected over the summer, but investigators are looking into the possibility the attack may have occurred months or even a year earlier.
How would ya not notice that?
Joe Petro, managing director of Citigroup’s Security and Investigative services, said, “We had no breach of the system and there were no losses, no customer losses, no bank losses.” He added later: “Any allegation that the FBI is working a case at Citigroup involving tens of millions of losses is just not true."
Oh… well that clears that up… I’m sure…
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