Cyber Threat

Pentagon Five-Year Cybersecurity Plan Seeks $23 Billion, Cyber attacks focusing on Infrastructure, not Data and more

June 11, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Brace for malware-fighting IE, Office patches - Microsoft is finally patching the vulnerabilities in IE this week. The weakness is in versions 6-10 of the software. 19 of the 23 patches Microsoft is rolling out today are based around patching IE. Via [...]

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The Reality of Single Actor Attacks

April 15, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

Kevin David Mitnick, former most wanted hacker and reformed security consultant Editor’s note: Timothy Coleman is a prolific writer and analyst who publishes frequently on topics of interest to operational technologists as well as strategic technology thinkers. Olivia Wilson is an award winning literary theorist. We will be bringing you more of their writings in [...]

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3D printing facial implant, online orders delivered in fifteen minutes and more

April 8, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Marcus Williams Today’s cyber news we are tracking: 3D printing facial implant, Receiving online orders in less than 15 minutes, AV world rankings, and more. Technology has reinvented itself again. A British restaurant manager was diagnose with a cancerous tumor growing on the left side of his face. He was referred to a surgeon [...]

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The Army’s Command Post of the Future. First Army Unit deploying with a mobile network, Cisco and Cloud Computing

March 29, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

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 provided by the Command [...]

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Centripetal Networks Provides Internet Scale Cyber Defense

March 26, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Bob Gourley I’m on the board of Centripetal Networks, a firm with dramatically virtuous technology that I believe will change the world. With this post I’ll tell you more about this firm, with a focus on the differentiators of their capability. The core capability of Centripetal Networks is a product called the RuleGate. It [...]

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DISA looking for PKI services, Cyberthreats getting worse and more

March 18, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. DISA looks for support of public key infrastructure services – “The Defense Information Systems Agency is developing a new cyber security contract and has stared collecting market data on possible providers of public key infrastructure services.” This is demonstrating a dedication [...]

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DARPA’S Cyber Tools: We have had our hands on DARPA’s distribution platform for cyber defense tools

March 15, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By ChrisScott It’s long been known that to win in a cyber war, DoD has to have a way to get an asymmetric advantage in time, cost and contribution – something that is mostly alien to the Defense Acquisition process. A few years ago DARPA started something called the Cyber Fast Track (CFT) program. This [...]

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Announcing Our Latest Product: The Weekly DoD and IC Technology Review

March 15, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Bob Gourley With this post we are announcing the latest in our newsletter series, the CTOvision DoD and IC Technology Review. This weekly report leveraged the same publishing platform (Mailchimp) as our other newsletters giving our readers tailorable control over which newsletters are of most interest to you while protecting your email information. The [...]