Cybersecurity: When Hackers Attack: Are computers now the conventional front for hostilities? Michael Chertoff joins subject experts on Milken Global Conference discussion

President Obama has called attacks on U.S. computer networks "one of the most serious economic and national security threats our nation faces." The FBI's director recently warned IT professionals to be on the alert for organized cybercriminals, rogue hacktivists and breaches by foreign governments. Hackers have infiltrated banks, credit card companies, major retailers and defense contractors, pilfering consumer data and intellectual property. 
The Milken Institute presented international experts to discuss cybersecurity on a  panel at its Global Conference in May 2012.  Panelists:   

1. Michael Chertoff, Chairman, The Chertoff Group; former Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
2. Shawn Henry, President, CrowdStrike Services; former Executive Assistant Director, FBI
3. Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer, F-Secure
4. Daniel McGahn, President and CEO, AMSC
5. Moderator:  Marc Goodman, Founder, Future Crimes Institute; Global Security Advisor and Chair for Policy, Law and; Ethics, Singularity University

New measures to enhance cybersecurity are making their way through Congress, but will proposed federal standards really keep us one step ahead of the hackers? Can law enforcement handle a shadowy, constantly morphing enemy on the Internet - without further eroding privacy protections? How should governments, private firms and individuals respond to the threats?

Recorded at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California.

Cyber-jihadists hijack North American "Israpundit"; Meet the man they want to keep you from learning from

Atlas Shrugs reports that jihadists today briefly comandeered the pro-democracy, pro-Jewish website, Israpundit. Volunteers helped Israpundit overcome the "Hamas owned you," browser hijack to bring it back online.

Islamists impose ensorship of the Islamist world to stifle international criticism of their brainwashing. Meet Israpundit's publisher, Ted Belman, and appreciate the intellectual honesty of this kind, lucid political affairs analyst delivers from Canada, that cyber-terrorists are working to stifle.

Mr. Belman spoke with DemoCast.TV just days prior to the American Presidential election and addresses global affairs topics including domestic North American politics, Middle East politics, and defeating jihad.

British Muslim diplomat's son convicted as top al-Qaeda cyberterror organizer

British Muslim computer geek, son of diplomat, revealed as al Qaeda's top cyber-terrorist UK Daily Mail

In 2005, Younes Tsouli, then 21 years old, became administrator (Irhabi 007) for the web forum al-Ansat, used by 4,500 extremists to communicate with each other, sharing such practical information as how to make explosives and how to get to Iraq to become a suicide bomber.

Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, the head of the Met's counterterrorism operations, said: “It was the first virtual conspiracy to murder that we have seen.”

The story of how he was brought down and the UK terror cells he led authorities to is documented on this BBC programme.