Cybersecurity
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is expected to bring a stalled cybersecurity bill up for a floor vote by the end of next week. Lawmakers are still haggling over the final details but the bill's sponsor, Sen. Joe Lieberman, believes he'll have enough votes to pass the revised bill that includes compromises lessening the impact for private industry.
July 18, 2012 -
Homeland Security officials are warning fans of the Olympic Games to be wary of online hackers, who take advantage of highly-publicized events and popular news stories to entice users to click on malicious links that download viruses or prompt for credit card information.
July 18, 2012 -
The Army has awarded a contract for cyber maneuvering technology so that network administrators can stay a few steps ahead of hackers.
July 18, 2012 -
New guidelines could help agencies adopting bring-your-own-device strategies manage the potential risks smartphones and tablets could pose.
July 18, 2012 -
W. Hord Tipton, executive director of The International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2, talks about his tenure as CIO of the Department of the Interior, and what you can do to protect data at your agency. July 17, 2012
July 17, 2012 -
The FBI wants an automated testing system that can handle all Android applications. Researchers are trying to standardize a technique called fuzzing that forces outside data into the apps to find weaknesses.
July 17, 2012 -
The U.S. Cyber Challenge's annual cybersecurity camp program is now underway. It will run through July 20. Invited participants will go through four days of intensive training aimed at assessing and recruiting top cybersecurity talent.
July 16, 2012 -
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano met with governors this weekend to highlight the role states can play in responding to cyber incidents. She spoke at the National Governors Association meeting in Williamsburg, Va.
July 16, 2012 -
Using a DARPA grant and its own money, the FBI has enlisted researchers at George Mason University to try out so-called fuzzing attacks.
July 16, 2012 -
The agency turns to teams of experts to review how departments are meeting the Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) initiative. DHS plans to expand the use of Blue Teams to the implementation of continuous monitoring and two-factor authentication under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12.
July 16, 2012 -
Yahoo confirmed that a hacker group stole, then posted 450,000 unencrypted user-names and passwords from one of its services.
July 13, 2012 -
Thousands of people across the country have been conned into giving their Social Security numbers and other personal information online.
July 13, 2012 -
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said the United States is under cyber attack and that cybersecurity was a matter of national security.
July 12, 2012 -
The Air Force has awarded contracts to five companies to help it with a long-term cybersecurity project.
July 11, 2012 -
The Federal Network Security branch is performing Red and Blue teaming exercises to expose the soft spaces in agency networks and harden them. DHS has conducted five Red Teams and 28 Blue Team exercises in 2012. Federal CIOs and CISOs must request the Red Teams to analyze their networks. The agency receives a report on the biggest risks it faces.
July 11, 2012