“Hackers are increasingly hijacking computers to secretly mine crypto assets. Such exploits surged last year, according a survey by IBM Managed Security Services. One recently discovered malware program is hiding itself on Amazon’s cloud to steal processing power from a fleet of ordinary comp...
By Shannon Perry Over the Labor Day weekend, a heap of sensitive pictures of celebrities found their way onto online forums 4chan and Reddit, and the leak has since made headlines across the country. The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal have dedicated front-page links...
Everyone knows it can be very hard to do business with the government. But you can take steps to make it easier to serve. The most important thing to do, in my opinion, is to be informed on government mission needs. How else can you determine if you have what the government really wants from [&helli...
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Internal Pentagon presentation details civilian workforce cuts – “The Pentagon is considering dismissing more than 5,000 civilian workers if sequestration continues into the coming fiscal year–which begins Oct. 1–according t...
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. At Commerce Dept., false alarm on cyberattack cost almost $3 million – The Commerce Department was recently hit by a cyber attack, one it deemed “so vicious that the agency’s entire computer network had been put at...
By JonathanTabb Wired.com had an excellent article last week about Mobile Malware and it got me thinking about future computer threats a little. Let’s see where my mind went: Mobile devices far outrank traditional computers and the gap is only growing. The Wired article points to only one of the p...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Department of Homeland Security Inspector General reported that some Customs and Border Protection critical information technology systems are prone to periodic outages. More here. The Department of Defense released a...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: IBM and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are working together on the Vulcan supercomputer to analyze data for developing new technologies in applied energy, green energy, manufacturing, data management and othe...