By ShannonPerry Throughout 2012, Iran targeted United States banks and companies with a series of distributed denial-of-services cyber attacks. The attacks doubled and sometimes tripled the amount of traffic that the American websites were capable of handling. Many considered the attacks retaliation...
“The Obama administration is planning a next-generation terrorist targeting list that transforms the CIA into a paramilitary force, The Washington Post reported. The secret list, called the ‘disposition matrix,’ contains terrorism suspect names laid out against resources available ...
“Hackers linked to China’s government broke into one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive computer networks, breaching a system used by the White House Military Office for nuclear commands, according to defense and intelligence officials familiar with the incident. One official said the...
“The Obama administration is discouraging authorities and citizens from reporting suspicious behavior through smartphone apps because of privacy concerns, as local governments begin releasing the anti-terrorist tools 11 years after the World Trade Center attacks. Privacy advocates and federal ...
“The Obama administration is preparing an executive order with new rules to protect U.S. computer systems, after Congress failed earlier this summer to pass a cybersecurity bill. The provisions include voluntary standards for companies, a special council run by the Homeland Security Department...
Cybersecurity gets a 74% increase in the Homeland Security Department’s fiscal 2013 budget request while overall department funding stays constant. More here. The Department of Energy, Justice, and Health and Human Services CISOs agreed that they are all having trouble keeping pace with mobile ris...
The Joint Staff and Office of Secretary of Defense’s Office of Policy are working on unified rules of engagement for cyberspace that should be ready within the next two months. More here. The House Armed Services Committee told top defense officials at a hearing that the Department of Defense, n...
The Department of Defense (DOD) has made information technology reform an important part of its agenda throughout the Obama administration, and efforts to overhaul the department are finally starting to bear fruit. Within the last few months, the DOD formally shuttered the office of the assistant se...