Cybersecurity
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Microsoft researchers says those scary vendor reports warning about the value of cyber crime losses are mostly bunk. That's because they are based on surveys, and surveys are easy to bias.
April 20, 2012 -
Speaking at the National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colo., the Air Force's top cyber commander, Maj. Gen. Suzanne Vautrinot, stressed the importance of offense, defense and exploitation when forming cybersecurity strategy.
April 19, 2012 -
The Homeland Security Committee passed the Promoting and Enhancing Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Act.
April 19, 2012 -
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has sent a list of cybersecurity recommendations to the House of Representatives, in light of Congress's multiple cybersecurity bills.
April 18, 2012 -
The Defense Department has outlined a strategy to extend traditional treaty alliances to cyberspace.
April 18, 2012 -
The House Committee on Homeland Security will mark up the Promoting and Enhancing Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Effectiveness Act of 2011 today. All members of the House got a snapshot of the nation's cyber threats yesterday in an interagency briefing.
April 18, 2012 -
Digital signatures are mathematical algorithms that ensure authenticity of digital documents. They are specified in Federal Information Processing Standard, or FIPS 186 — 3. The standard first came out in 1994.
April 18, 2012 -
Jeremy Grant, the senior advisor for National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, said his group is about to award a contract to manage a future set of working groups, each of which will develop a component of the ID ecosystem.
April 17, 2012 -
The Flashback Trojan that infected more than 600,000 Apple computers at its height has been largely contained, according to a new report in TechNews World. But cybersecurity experts warned that new variants still pose a threat.
April 16, 2012 -
GSA, NIST to name the first batch of outside organizations who will test and validate commercial cloud products against baseline security standards in the FedRAMP cloud security program in May. The Joint Authorization Board also will release guidance to industry on how to implement the security requirements in the coming months. FedRAMP still is months from approving its first set of vendors.
April 16, 2012 -
The Duqu virus, widely known as a "twin" to the Stuxnet worm that targeted Iran's nuclear infrastructure, is evolving yet again. Software security firm Symantec said the program has a new variant altered "just enough...to evade some security product detections."
April 13, 2012 -
Agencies may be going about FISMA compliance the wrong way, says Marcus Ranum, chief security officer of Tenable Network Security.
April 13, 2012 -
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service said the emails appear to come from its office. The "spoofs" said that people who are receiving disability compensation from Veterans Affairs may be able to obtain more money from the Internal Revenue Service.
April 13, 2012 -
Cyber criminals have targeted a cloud-based payroll service in Canada in an effort to steal authentication information, according to a new report in PC World.
April 12, 2012 -
A British blogger has found a security hole in Facebook's mobile apps for Android and iPhone, which can be used to steal personal information.
April 12, 2012
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