via CNN Money NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The targeted phishing scheme that struck hundreds of top U.S. government officials’ personal Gmail accounts was neither difficult to perform nor incredibly sophisticated. The attackers were able to pose as legitimate, trusted senders from the State Dep...
via NDIA The growing use of mobile communications devices by the U.S. military and by civilian agencies is shaping Pentagon efforts to protect information networks from cyber attacks, said a senior defense official. One of the biggest challenges in protecting the IT infrastructure is having visibili...
via Boston.com LONDON — America’s new cyber czar said yesterday that international law and cooperation — not another treaty — are enough to tackle cybersecurity issues for now. Christopher Painter, coordinator for cyber issues for the State Department, declined to comment on ...
via Fierce Government IT Cybersecurity is about assessing risk, not just vulnerabilities, and often a federal agencies’ biggest risks lie within the workforce, according to a National Security Agency official. “[We often] put too much in the hands of under-loved, under-paid, under-equipp...
via Department of State As Secretary Clinton announced during her February 15, 2011 address on Internet Freedom, Christopher Painter has been appointed to serve as the Department’s first Coordinator for Cyber Issues. Mr. Painter assumed his new position as of February 22, 2011and will establis...
via Washington Post Before the infamous leak, the 250,000 State Department cables acquired by anti-secrecy activists resided in a database so obscure that few diplomats had heard of it. It had a bureaucratic name, Net-Centric Diplomacy, and served an important mission: the rapid sharing of informati...
“A newly created State Department Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Issues, unveiled in a 242-page report issued Wednesday, is charged with uniting different parts of the department working on cyber matters to more effectively advance America’s cybersecurity interests. The new post was...
via Federal News Radio The State Department is going through a major reorganization. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says part of that is a new coordinator for cyber security to help ensure classified material remains protected. Story here....