By JonathanTabb The U.S. Government needs a robust cyber workforce immediately and for the foreseeable future. The challenge in achieving such a large team of geeks is threefold; it must recruit skilled young individuals, it must continuously train them, and it must improve its ability to retain its...
“Birthmarks, be damned: the FBI has officially started rolling out a state-of-the-art face recognition project that will assist in their effort to accumulate and archive information about each and every American at a cost of a billion dollars. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reached a ...
CNBC is running a new documentary on the cyber espionage threat. It runs several times over the next few days and I would strongly encourage you to watch it. I also encourage you to tell everyone you know to watch it. If you are an IT professional or involved in the cybersecurity community, or even ...
“From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program....
Last week, I had the chance to listen to and speak with Representative Adam Smith of Washington state about cybersecurity legislation at a reception. This year has been pivotal for passing regulations to govern cyber, and attendees of this security event wanted to know his thoughts on the variety of...
The National Nuclear Security Administration, which is in charge of America’s nuclear weapons stockpile, wants to increase its cybersecurity budget to deal with up to 10 million attacks a day. More here. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team reports that over half of all cybera...
China’s New Year celebration last month wasn’t a holiday just for the Chinese. It was also a brief respite for the thousands of specialists who defend America’s military and intelligence networks, since the volume of cyber attacks always seems to fall off when the Middle Kingdom is...
Iran has been identified as the main cyber threat to the United States as the office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) claims that intrusions are not being detected....