[fireeye] InfoSecurity Europe 2014: Cybersecurity for the Masses

InfoSecurity Europe is the biggest security event and most important date on the calendar for information security professionals across Europe. The event aims to break through the noise and provide the European audience with all the necessary information to better understand cyber threats to their networks. Join FireEye experts and learn how to prepare for a new frontier of advanced attackers:

[infosecurity-magazine] RSA Conference 2014: (ISC)²'s McNulty Honored with Posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award

A cybersecurity pioneer has been recognized with one of the industry’s top honors: F. Lynn McNulty, who passed away in June 2012, has been given the RSA Lifetime Achievement Award.

[infosecurity-magazine] NIST Issues Completed Cybersecurity Framework

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the finished version of the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. A year in the making, the framework provides a common language to address and manage cyber risk in a cost-effective way based on business needs, so that organizations, regulators and customers can better create, guide, assess or improve comprehensive cybersecurity programs.

[arnnet] IBM signs cybersecurity research deal with Australian Federal Government

IBM has inked a deal with the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation to collaborate on cybersecurity, analytics and cognitive computing.

[cbh] Cybersecurity Trends for 2014

Following the well-publicized mass looting of data from Target Inc. in late 2013, most companies are devoting renewed energy to bolstering their cybersecurity measures. The awareness that digital information is at risk extends across businesses of all sizes as well as to private citizens, who have become much less complacent over the past year. A sense of urgency about digital security is fueled not just by the widespread occurrence of data theft by hackers, but also via the ongoing concern for privacy issues driven by disclosures of extensive National Security Agency (“NSA”) information gathering.

[Reuters] U.S. warns of cybersecurity, privacy threats at Sochi Olympics

(Reuters) - The United States on Friday issued a fresh travel alert for Americans attending the Sochi Winter Olympics, citing cybersecurity threats and warning them to have "no expectation of privacy" using Russian communications networks.

The U.S. State Department's alert - coming the same day that Turkish security forces in Istanbul seized a Ukrainian man accused of trying to hijack an airliner and redirect it to Sochi - updates one issued two weeks ago.