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The Department of Homeland Security to Hire 140 Cybersecurity Experts

2011-06-02/0 Comments/in General Security, Security Job/by admin

The Department of Homeland Security is planning to increase its cyber-security workforce to 400 members by adding an additional 140 members by 2012. Phillip Reitinger, deputy undersecretary of the DHS’s National Protection and Programs Directorate, stated, “we plan to hire 140 additional cybersecurity experts by October 2012 bringing the agency’s total to 400.”

Google’s Gmail Hacked by China Again

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Google discovered Chinese hackers tried to steal the passwords of senior U.S. government officials as well as South Korean officials, Chinese activists and journalists this past Wednesday. There are also reports thousand of other email accounts were also targeted.

The Department of Homeland Security to Hire 140 Cybersecurity Experts

2011-06-02/0 Comments/in General Security, Security Job/by admin

Google’s Gmail Hacked by China Again

2011-06-02/0 Comments/in Hack/by admin

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The Department of Homeland Security to Hire 140 Cybersecurity Experts

2011-06-02/0 Comments/in General Security, Security Job/by admin

This is in part to President Obama’s recently proposed cybersecurity plan earlier this month. In the plan, the Obama administration released a cybersecurity legislative agenda that assigned the Department of Homeland Security as the lead agency in protecting federal agencies and the critical IT infrastructure.

This also follows a strategic agenda the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano made over year ago when she stated, “Cyber-security is one of our most urgent priorities” and announced that The Department of Homeland Security plans hire up to 1,000 cyber-security experts in the next three years to help protect U.S. computer networks.

Many IT security experts have expressed the United States is vulnerable to a massive cyber-attack due to our reliance and dependence on the Internet; and industries such as healthcare, transportation, telecommunications, financial and energy to name a few are currently open targets.

This announcement presents is a great opportunity for African Americans per a recent study by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce that was presented on a recent Black Enterprise web posting titled, “10 Highest-Paying College Degrees for African Americans”. The study investigates the economic value of 171 college majors and then goes even deeper to provide a breakdown of the highest and lowest-paying degrees by sex and race.

In the Black Enterprise article, 7 of the 10 highest-paying college degrees were IT and engineering related such as Computer Science, Computer Network & Telecommunications and Information Science to name a few.

You can view career opportunities with DHS here.

Google’s Gmail Hacked by China Again

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Google stated on their blog, “The hackers tried to use a phishing scheme to get the passwords of victims so they could monitor their email correspondence.” But Google security technicians were able to stop the hacking campaign and secure the accounts of those targeted expect for a Chinese human rights activist Cui Weiping whose email content were accessed; the FBI was notified of that matter.

This is the second time allegations of China hacking Google has come about. Back in January of 2010, a cyber-attack that allegedly originated from China occurred which prompted the National Security Agency to assist in the investigation.

In a statement, Google said, “Unlike a series of cyberattacks from China last year, the goal this time was not its own central systems, but the individual accounts of users.”

The Google hacking occurrence comes a day after the Pentagon declared cyber attack on U.S. interest from another country could constitute as an act of war. This may be due to the constant cyberattacks the U.S. government and private companies have been facing from countries like China and Russia to name a few.

SecurityOrb.com, an Information Security and Privacy awareness organization urge Gmail users to take safety precautions such as changing their password, using a strong password, and possibly even using Google’s two-step verification feature for Gmail. Furthermore, you can verify the location from where your Gmail account was accessed by checking the “last account activity” display at the bottom of the page.