Cybersecurity
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The Google and University of Maryland Cybersecurity Seminar Series will feature a diverse group of speakers from industry, academia, and government, addressing a broad range of topics related to cybersecurity, including technology, policy, and economics. Invited speakers will also examine the impact that cybersecurity threats and protective measures are having on privacy, identity, social networks, business and national security.
March 23, 2011 -
The hack attack that breached tools provided by RSA has affected federal users, but the Homeland Security Department is advising agencies, they don\'t need to replace the product.
March 22, 2011 -
The Department of Defense is working with private developers to create a system that automatically detects and prevent network intrusions.
March 22, 2011 -
Cyber Command gave no reason for the turnabout in policy.
March 21, 2011 -
Agencies reported more than 41,000 cyber incidents in 2010.
March 21, 2011 -
Despite a 2006 mandate to secure mobile devices and implement two-factor authentication, only just over half of federal agencies have managed to do so. OMB submits its annual FISMA report to Congress detailing the steps the government has taken to improve cybersecurity, including spending $12 billion on cybersecurity last year.
March 21, 2011 -
The U.S. military does not have the trained personnel or the legal authorities it needs to respond to a computer-based attack on America or its allies, and a crisis would quickly strain the force, the Pentagon\'s cyber commander said Wednesday.
March 17, 2011 -
Cyber defense giant Symantec has been asked to join a White House advisory council.
March 16, 2011 -
Cadets are taking on the role of \"malicious insiders\" in a study of front-line cyber threats.
March 16, 2011 -
There will be slightly less \"video intelligence\' at the Department of Defense from now on.
March 15, 2011 -
Iranian hackers working for the powerful Revolutionary Guard\'s paramilitary Basij group have launched attacks on websites of the \"enemies,\" a state-owned newspaper reported Monday in a rare acknowledgment from Iran that it\'s involved in cyber warfare.
March 14, 2011 -
The Department of Homeland Security is offering a new program that invites top executive-level talent from the private sector to share their expertise with the Department to fill some exciting and important roles here at DHS.
March 11, 2011 -
The contract is a blanket purchase agreement worth a maximum $49 billion.
March 10, 2011 -
Instead of imposing additional security regulations, the U.S. government must work with the private sector to develop incentives that motivate companies to voluntarily adopt security best practices.
March 10, 2011 -
Einstein 3 also expands information sharing by the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team, and allows automatic US-CERT alerts.
March 09, 2011
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