The free two-day simulations, held on Oct. 16-17 and Oct. 23-24, are designed to help banks identify the strong and weak points in their responses to cyber-attacks, according to a joint Thursday press release from SWACHA and FISAC.

(04.10.) But a simulated cyber-attack drill set for October aims to address those challenges, he says

More than 1,000 banks and credit unions through the U.S. will test their incident response strategies as part of this cyber-attack exercise.

“The morning of the war could open with a missile on the Kirya building [the Defense Ministry‘s HQ in Tel Aviv], with a cyber attack on banks, with a mass charge on a border town, or a tunnel packed with explosives that reaches a kindergarten,” Gantz told attendees at a conference at Bar-Ilan University’s Begin-Sadat Center

(23.09.) More than 1,000 banks will test their incident response strategies by participating in a simulated cyber-attack exercise. (..) Banks can still sign up at the FS-ISAC website to participate in the two-day drill in October,

Mitte September begann Israel endlich die Lieferung von Baumaterial in den Gazastreifen in größeren Mengen zu genehmigen, was für einen großen Teil des Streifens erstmals nach dem israelischen Überfall 2008 (Operation „Vergossenes Blei“) die Möglichkeit eröffnete, Material für die Reparatur der damals verursachten Schäden zu bekommen. Heute wiederum verbot Israel aus „Sicherheitsgründen“ derartige Lieferungen für unbestimmte Zeit.

The biggest contractor, CGI Federal, was awarded its $94 million contract in December 2011. But the government was so slow in issuing specifications that the firm did not start writing software code until this spring,

The federal government spends more than $80 billion per year on information technology, but the resulting websites often take years to build and are glitchy once they launch, according to experts cited by the Washington Post. That’s because instead of hiring savvy Silicon Valley programmers — like those who worked on websites for Obama’s campaigns — to build the systems, the government tends to contract with firms that are better at securing contracts than they are at developing web sites.

The primary Obamacare exchange contract went to the CGI Group, a Canadian consulting company..

A June report by the Government Accountability Office found that CMS had already committed to spend $394 million on the system.

Signing up for Obamacare is still ridiculously hard

The Obamacare exchange website is complicated to use and has seen more than a few glitches since it officially opened on October 1st, but the MacIver Institute has found that once you get through the application process, the website asks individuals to register to vote.

From 1993 to 1999 – a democratic nightmare

By a 22-point margin (53 percent to 31 percent), the public blames the Republican Party more for the shutdown than President Barack Obama – a wider margin of blame for the GOP than the party received during the poll during the last shutdown in 1995-96.

The classified documents that Snowden had downloaded from the U.S. National Security Agency were stored on smaller devices, such as hard drives and thumb drives, and they have not been turned over to the Russian or Chinese authorities, said Ray McGovern, a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst.

On Wednesday, Snowden held a six-hour meeting in Moscow with McGovern and three other former U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials who have all become critics of government surveillance programs.

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„Sonderbar ist, immer wieder laut werdende Äußerungen einzelner Vertreter des US-Außenministeriums zu hören, dass wir uns alle auf ‚Genf 2‘ zubewegen. Wichtig sei lediglich, dass Russland Druck auf Damaskus ausübe. (…) Wir beeinflussen Damaskus, und diese Einwirkung zeitigt ein reales Ergebnis“, so Lawrow.

„Unsere US-Partner hatten uns beteuert…“

„Wir lassen uns von der prinzipiellen Haltung leiten, dass Waffenlieferungen an illegale Formationen die Sicherheitsgrundlagen untergraben“, so Putin.

„Ich bin sicher, dass man viele Konflikte in diversen Regionen der Welt hätte verhindern können, würden alle Waffenproduzenten weltweit den gleichen Standpunkt vertreten wie Russland“, fügte er hinzu.

Pressure mounted on Syrian rebels on Monday to permit access to chemical weapons sites in areas under their control, as the head of the international watchdog on such munitions said its inspectors were facing difficulties at some locations because of fighting around contested areas in the civil war.

“We believe that President Assad has lost the legitimacy necessary to be a cohesive force that could bring people together,” he said, adding: “there has to be a transition government in Syria to permit the possibility of peace”.