cloud computing

Bob Flores, Great CTO and Hero of IT Professionals, To Give Keynote at CSA Congress 2013

November 13, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Bob Gourley It is with great excitement that I share news I just saw regarding Bob Flores, a friend and associate and highly respected technology professional, will be addressing the CSA Congress. Press release from http://ctolink.us/1cUWW1e is below. BOB FLORES, FORMER CTO OF THE CIA, TO KEYNOTE CSA CONGRESS 2013 Keynote to Address ‘Unifying Security […]

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NIST puts finishing touches on critical infrastructure cyber framework, Organizations are flying blind as they embrace cloud services and more

September 26, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. New Virus Hits Freezing Point – “There is a new virus that protects itself against antiviruses by freezing the hard disk, researchers said. Once it infects a device, the virus creates a restore point. All the modifications made on the system […]

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Security updates could slow Navy’s computer network, Concerns around insider threats escalate and more

September 24, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Concerns around insider threats escalate – ‘Vormetric announced the results of its “Insider Threat” survey, which surveyed more than 700 IT decision-makers. The study of mid-market and enterprise organizations indicates that 54 percent believe it is more difficult to detect and […]

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Programmer exploits Windows vulnerability in cloud-based services, 10 yrs later, DHS still plagued with cybersecurity, critical infrastructure problems and more

September 13, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Programmer exploits Windows vulnerability in cloud-based services - “Windows data volumes (meaning virtual machine hard-drives) in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services can be copied and have their access credentials modified, allowing a hacker to glean insights into the data, a […]

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Big data spending to reach $114 billion in 2018, Botnet Found on Tor and more

September 11, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Multiplayer games and DoS attacks – Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG) companies are especially concerned about denial of service attacks. Many believe that they have been targeted (perhaps by rivals) to put down the servers. Hackers and criminals may […]

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DISA brings cybersecurity to the JIE, B.C. computer servers linked to $500M global theft ring and more

September 9, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. DISA brings cybersecurity to the JIE – “He [Orndorff, chief information assurance executive and program executive officer for mission assurance at the Defense Information Systems Agency] kept returning to one point: It’s no longer about being able to collect the data; it’s about […]

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DOE’s secret weapon: Supercomputers, Developers Scramble to Build NSA-Proof Email and more

September 5, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. DOE’s secret weapon: Supercomputers – ‘”The supercomputing facilities at the National Labs enable science of scale — that is, they provide resources for tackling complex science and engineering challenges that require massive calculations or involve the modeling of very large data […]

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New project shines light on VA mismanagement, Windows 8.1 RTM leaks to Internet and more

August 30, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. New project shines light on VA mismanagement – ‘Jeff Miller, chairman of the House veterans affairs committee, launched the VA Accountability Watch, an extension of Veterans.House.Gov, to highlight VA’s “growing pattern of rewarding failure.”‘ The VA has been identified as rewarding […]