The Department of Interior will be the first government agency to buy the iPad 3 with plans to buy 20 to streamline daily business tasks. More here Current and former government officials indicate that the Department of Defense is accelerating the development of cyber weapons. More here. As the GSA...
The Interior Department plans to reopen bidding on a contract to move its 88,000 email users to a single cloud-based system, according to apresolicitation notice posted Monday, four months after the departmentagreed to toss a 2010 award for that transition to Microsoft Corp....
Hackers released another batch of data on Thursday pilfered from Stratfor Global Intelligence, a widely used research and analysis company whose website was attacked last weekend....
The U.S. military received an unwanted present this Christmas holiday season in the form of an “aggressive” phishing attack that’s been making the rounds of .mil email accounts, according to the Army....
The U.S. Postal Service should offer email, secure document storage, and other online services as a way for the financially strapped agency to leverage the Web as a service platform, according to the USPS office of Inspector General. A report from the IG outlined a digital platform the agency coul...
via Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Windows pros would do well to take note of a predominant trend in the realm of IT security as the week begins: e-mail accounts as both targets and attack vectors. Adobe announced that a recently patched vulnerability in its flash player on Sunday is stil...
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 Computerworld Google has disrupted what it believes to be a targeted phishing campaign aimed at stealing e-mail from government officials, contractors and military personnel. The criminals behind the campaign have broken into hundreds of Gmail accounts belonging to “U.S. government officia...