Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: President Obama urged lawmakers to pass the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 that would create a public-private partnership to set cybersecurity standards for critical infrastructure. More here. The U.S. Census Bureau plans to la...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Transportation Security Administration has failed to comply with a year-old U.S. Court of Appeals order to hold public hearings to decide on body scanner rules and regulations. More here. The Federal Bureau of Investi...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Excluding intelligence agencies, which keep their costs secret, the U.S. Government spent $11 billion last year keeping classified information secret, twice the cost of classification a decade ago. More here. The Defense Ad...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team within the Department of Homeland Security reports a a 20-fold leap in the number of incidents since the team was created in 2009. More here. The Homeland Securi...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved its version of the National Defense Authorization Act which would aim to recruit young people to work in cybersecurity, develop a Department of Defense cyber testing and eva...
A hacker could exploit this vulnerability, identified by independent researcher Paul Davis, to carry out an arbitrary code execution or program crash, according to the advisory issued by the DHS Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team....
Thousands of Internet-connected industrial control systems aren’t being properly protected by firewalls or strong authentication, which leaves them at risk of being exploited by attackers. That warning arrived last week, when the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CE...