The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded 13 states nearly $220 million in Affordable Insurance Exchange grants to help them create fully operational online exchanges by 2014 that individuals and small businesses will use to select health insurance plans. The recently announced ...
via infosecurity.com On Wednesday, Maine Secretary of State Charlie Summers said a CVS-linked computer in one of the town offices was infected with data-stealing malware. He said that his office had been tipped off about the data breach by the Department of Homeland Security’s US-CERT team. &#...
via The National Journal The United States needs a “gold standard” in cyber-defenses, Sens. Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Susan Collins, R-Maine., and Tom Carper, D-Del., said in a Washington Post op-ed Friday. The alternative to better cybersecurity measures, they wrote, “could be a di...
via Federal Times The Department of Homeland Security plans to grow its cybersecurity workforce by more than 50 percent, as lawmakers and the White House work to expand the department’s authority in securing both government and private-sector websites. By October 2012, DHS’ cyber staff w...
via SC Magazine Five days after RSA announced that its systems were breached by a sophisticated attack, details remain scant about how customers of its SecurID two-factor authentication products may be affected. Still, that hasn’t stopped many in the security community from speculating. Here a...