Cybersecurity
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a new program to fund hacker research. DARPA announced Cyber Fast Track program at the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas this week.
August 05, 2011 -
Anonymous gets a boost in its efforts to boost your agency\'s information. Learn more in today\'s cybersecurity update.
August 04, 2011 -
Computer-savvy kids at the Defcon Kids convention will hear from the Army\'s computer crime investigative unit, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency, which is the Pentagon\'s code-cracking division.
August 04, 2011 -
Security vendor McAfee has released the details of its Operation Shady Rat effort — the name the company gave its five-year research effort that it said has revealed several national cybersecurity lapses.
August 04, 2011 -
On today\'s Federal Drive, an update on the FAA shutdown, the White House names a new federal chief information officer to replace Vivek Kundra and the General Services Administration adds nearly 600 small IT firms to the STARS II contract.
August 04, 2011 -
A recent Government Accountability Office review found agencies lack policies for records management, privacy and security associated with social media.
August 02, 2011 -
Daniel Goure of the Lexington Institute discussed what exactly constitutes cyber warfare, the policy options DoD faces in the cyber domain and the role that industry can play.
August 02, 2011 -
Increasingly federal agencies are looking for computer hacking skills. The National Security Agency is one of those agencies that will attend an annual hacker convention this week.
August 02, 2011 -
As defense contractors face tighter global budgets many are buying up companies with niche technology services. In just the latest move, L-3 announced it would spin off its systems engineering division.
August 01, 2011 -
Davi D\'Agostino, director of Defense Capabilities and Management Issues at GAO, discusses highlights from the report.
July 29, 2011 -
Officials from the three nations are finding common ground in the need for cybersecurity and trusted identities in cyberspace. The FBI has set up a liaison in China, while the Secret Service has an office in Russia and plans to open one in China to investigate cyber crime.
July 29, 2011 -
The U.S. Cyber Challenge hosts cyber boot camps across the country this summer. Cyber campers get intensive training in penetration testing, reverse engineering and forensics.
July 29, 2011 -
Researchers at iSec Partners have shown how hackers could exploit a security gap in new mobile technology that allows people to remotely start their cars.
July 28, 2011 -
Sean McGurk, director of DHS\' National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, told a House subcommittee the agency is watching out for Stuxnet variants. The original cyber worm is thought to have crippled Iran\'s nuclear program last summer.
July 28, 2011 -
Today on the Federal Drive, details on the General Services Administration\'s switch to cloud computing and how the continued wrangling over the debt ceiling may be hurting efforts to resolve the partial FAA shutdown. Plus, how the International Space Station will meet its end.
July 28, 2011
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