Mark Weatherford, California’s former chief information security officer, will lead cybersecurity efforts for the federal government. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano appointed Weatherford on Thursday to the newly created position of deputy under secretary for cybersecurity. The appoin...
The computer networks that control power plants and financial systems will never be secure enough and a new, highly secure alternative Internet should be considered for development, a top FBI official said Thursday. Shawn Henry, the FBI’s executive assistant director, said critical systems ar...
via Reuters Anthony Stramella, an official with the National Security Agency’s Threat Operations Center, is more aware than most of how information from computers, telephones and other devices can be tampered with or end up in the wrong hands. So when he bought a personal computer that he only...
via SearchSecurity.com ORLANDO — Historically, the National Security Agency may be known for its low profile, but a top official from the NSA’s Central Security Service Threat Operations Center sounded a loud and clear warning that the size and growth of the cybersecurity threat landscape de...
via Fierce Government IT Metaphors about cyberspace and cybersecurity have obscured as much as clarified, says a paper by Adriane Lapointe, a National Security Agency official currently a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In a paper published Sept. 9 by CSIS, Lap...
via Reuters Sony Corp picked a former official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for the new post of chief information security officer, months after a massive hacking attack leaked information on 100 million user accounts on its games networks. Philip Reitinger, previously director of the...
via The Washington Post The email account of a senior official with a Texas-based defense and aerospace firm is the latest to fall victim to the hacking group known as Anonymous, an international band of cybersaboteurs notorious for their campaigns against the Church of Scientology and MasterCard In...
via Federal Computer Week The Defense Department has launched an effort to change the way it acquires cyberspace capabilities that will, if successful, greatly accelerate and streamline the way the government designs, develops and acquires network-based applications and services, a top DOD official ...