Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working on an All Source Positioning and Navigation (ASPN) project to provide robust, seamless, low cost navigation with or without GPS. More here. Debora Plunkett, director...
CISPA, Hotmail Exploits, Iranian Oil Issues, and more this week This week the information security industry was full of some highs and lows, with everything from the closure of over 30 credit-card trading websites as well as news that Iranian oil refineries have been closed due to malicious s...
Major Internet Service Providers including AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon have agreed to the FCC’s Communications, Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) plan to fight botnets, domain name fraud and Internet route hijacking. More here. David McClur...
Internet-service providers should adopt an industrywide standard to help keep hackers from taking over customers’ computers, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said. Providers of high-speed Internet service, such as Comcast Corp. and AT&T Inc., need to create a c...
The Homeland Security Department is taking over a heralded Pentagon project that shared classified intelligence with select military contractors and their communications providers, DHS officials said....
In a 17-1 vote, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence approved the legislation that would expand a pilot Pentagon program for sharing classified and sensitive threat information with defense contractors and their Internet service providers. Under the measure, a longer list of companies woul...
It’s now official: Federal employees have been notified whether they are eligible to telework. The notifications, required under the 2010 Telework Enhancement Act, were preceded by months of activity by federal chief human capital officers (CHCOs) and their telework managing officers who sheph...
The Defense Department is finalizing policies that will determine what the military can do in the event of a cyberattack as the government figures out who should have the power to shut down computer networks seized by an enemy nation, terrorist group or criminal hacker. Gen. Keith Alexander, who hea...