Sens. Lieberman, Collins and Carper\'s legislation creates two new offices to oversee federal cybersecurity in DHS and the White House. It also forms a new Federal Information Security Taskforce made up of agency chief information security officers. Bill does not include \"kill switch\" provision for private sector networks.
Bill would put DHS in charge of all civilian networks
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After Google hack, warnings pop up in SEC filings
The challenge of securing the nation\'s IT infrastructure has often been likened to building an airplane as it flies through the air -- or even herding cats.
This week, Federal Security Spotlight talks with John Streufert of the State Department. June 10, 2010
Bradley Manning was detained during a tour of duty in Iraq.
Google denies use of private data, Adobe warns of critical security flaw in its products
The U.S. Cyber Command - or CYBERCOM - officially became operational in late May. But observers inside the military and out still aren\'t sure what the command is supposed to do: protect the Pentagon\'s networks, strike out at enemies, seal up civilian vulnerabilities, or some combination of all three. CYBERCOM officials insist they have no interest in taking over the security of the Internet, but Pentagon officials have floated the idea the Defense Department might start a protective program for civilian networks.
Carnegie Mellon University\'s Computer Emergency Response Team (or CERT) has released a new fuzzing framework that will help identify and eliminate security vulnerabilities from different kinds of software. The fuzz testers are used by security researchers to find vulnerabilities by sending random input to an application. Fuzz testing has been popular among hackers, but with the release of this framework, CERT can push businesses to subject all software to fuzz testing.
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Two cyber leaders concur on importance of moving past forensics to risk mitigation.
New Australian zombie code in effect by December
The House Cybersecurity Caucus says new provisions \"will establish strong, centralized oversight to protect our nation\'s critical information infrastructure and update our comprehensive policy for operating in cyberspace.\" But will they? We ask Jim Lewis with CSIS