Cybersecurity
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The Wall Street Journal reported the largest Internet service providers took steps Sunday to make sure infected machines could stay online.
July 09, 2012 -
The Air Force Weapons School recently graduated its first six airmen specially trained in cyber warfare.
July 06, 2012 -
The Postal Service's E-Access system helps control employee access to systems and data. The single sign-on environment lets managers and database owners assign privileges to employees based on need.
July 06, 2012 -
In 2011, companies reported 198 cyber incidents to the Homeland Security Department — a nearly 383 percent increase above 2010, according to a June 28 report from the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT). Companies reported nine such incidents in 2009., when DHS opened ICE-CERT to help protect private-sector operators critical infrastructure from "emerging" cyber threats.
July 04, 2012 -
Ted Davis, president of Unisys Federal Systems, will talk about how his company can help your transition to the cloud. July 3, 2012
July 04, 2012 -
Unmanned drones are vulnerable to computer hacking that could allow outside force to control them, according to new research.
July 03, 2012 -
Former White House Cyber Coordinator Howard Schmidt, who retired in May, has landed back in the private sector. Schmidt will join Qualys, a company specializing in information security and compliance cloud solutions.
July 02, 2012 -
The department responsible for keeping the government safe from cyber threats could use some help of its own when it comes to securing mobile devices.
June 29, 2012 -
The government is investigating allegations against Symplicity Corp. for allegedly accessing without permission the internal networks of two competitors in the education sector. Symplicity, which runs three governmentwide websites, denies any wrongdoing and calls the government's search warrant a one-sided justification for the investigation. Experts say the company could face suspension from new federal procurements.
June 29, 2012 -
Veterans Affairs would have to contact victims of data breaches within 10 days under a bill approved by a House subcommittee.
June 28, 2012 -
NIST launched the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence in February and now is giving industry details on how it will work. The center's goal is to bring businesses and government together to solve cyber problems.
June 28, 2012 -
Homeland Security releases policy and guidance on how departments and vendors will implement continuous monitoring and get away from static reports on the cyber health of their systems. DHS is hoping Congress approves a $200 million funding request to buy five different commercial cyber tools, a dashboard and a security data warehouse in 2013.
June 28, 2012 -
The pressing need for cybersecurity legislation has led to widely divergent paths in the House and Senate. The House has opted for a more incremental approach, while the Senate has crafted comprehensive legislation
June 27, 2012 -
Hackers that attacked the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Department have pleaded guilty to those attacks in a court in London, SC Magazine reported.
June 27, 2012 -
Federal officials have arrested two dozen hackers in a cyber-crime ring that stretches from Japan to middle America.
June 27, 2012
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