The National Security Agency’s secret agents may soon use smartphones to access classified data, but developing a secure portable device has proven a major challenge. Troy Lange, the NSA’s mobility mission manager, said he is developing a smartphone secure enough for spies to use, but ak...
via Federal Times The State Department wanted to make tens of thousands of foreign affairs-related historical documents, publications and data sets more accessible to the public, and 50 databases more available to its employees worldwide. It did so on the cloud, a move intended to reduce the need fo...
via LA Times A major cyber-attack in Europe that apparently was launched from Iran has revealed significant vulnerabilities in the Internet security systems used to authenticate websites for banking, email and e-commerce around the world. The attack this summer wreaked havoc in the Netherlands, w...
via Government Computer News The National Security Agency, looking to protect another front of the cyber battlefield, is offering its own scanning tools to protect e-mail and other digital communications for major defense contractors, the Washington Post reports. NSA uses sophisticated data sets to ...
via UPI.com General Dynamics C4 Systems is delivering 300 Sectera Edge smartphones to the U.S. Air Force for use by senior leaders, the company announced. The deliveries represent the first major Air Force deployment of Secure Mobile Environment — Portable Electronic Devices. The smartphones a...
via Forbes.com A cyber attack that some are attributing to the hacking group, Lulz Security, has breached the database behind the website of the Department of Energy’s Y12 National Security Complex, which is located several miles from DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. For most of the ...
via Security News Daily Sony, the data-security firm RSA, Lockheed Martin, the email wholesaler Epsilon, the Fox broadcast network, NASA, PBS, the European Space Agency, the FBI, the British and French treasuries — and, just this morning, the banking and insurance giant Citigroup. What do all ...
via Government Computer News Social media is making the world a smaller, more interconnected place. And that’s precisely what worries security experts like Matthew McCormack, the Defense Intelligence Agency’s chief of cybersecurity. Speaking at the Department of Defense Intelligence Informat...