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...
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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....
If the government really wants to protect the nation’s electrical grid and critical infrastructure from hackers and other attackers, it’s got to change the way it communicates with the people in charge of securing those systems. That was the message sent this week from security professionals to ...