“On March 28, American Express’ website went offline for at least two hours during a distributed denial of service attack. A group calling itself ‘the cyber-fighters of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam’ claimed responsibility for the attack, which began at about 3:00pm Eastern Time. In a...
“Egypt said it has arrested three men suspected of slicing a crucial undersea Internet cable on Wednesday, causing widespread problems from Kenya to Pakistan. The South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) cable runs 12,500 miles from France to Singapore, with branches connecting ...
By Ryan Kamauff In this podcast I interviewed Anup Ghosh, CEO and Founder of Invincea. Invincea is a venture-backed software company that is bringing innovative security to companies through the Invincea breach prevention platform. Anup and I discussed Invincea and the breach protection software th...
By Marcus Williams Today’s Cyber news we are tracking: The Army’s Command Post of the Future. First Army Unit deploying with a mobile network, Cisco and Cloud Computing The Army’s Command Post of the Future (CPOF) Leaders on the ground at the attack on Lybia last year used maps and images ...
By Ryan Kamauff If you’re interested in checking out some T-Mobile LTE, just follow this easy tutorial The Nexus 4 shipped with an oddity – a 4G LTE modem that wasn’t quite turned on. Many people have done this in the past, but I wanted to give a quick and dirty rundown of how I d...
By Bob Gourley The Government Big Data Forum has been gathering every year for three years now to discuss how to leverage Big Data for government mission impact. We dive deep into lessons learned, share issues/challenges, receive demos from hot technology firms and network with fellow practitioners...
By Bob Gourley We have previously written about Recorded Future, a fast moving startup delivering predictive signals from the noise of the web. Recorded Future provides a blog that captures several exemplars of their capability and its applicability in many mission areas. One mission area of particu...
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Four simple steps to protect the US from hackers – Gartner is forecasting an additional 8% cyber spend by firms in 2013, already. As well, the barrier to entry for hacking has been lowered (as Matt and I discussed in yesterday...