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 ...
It’s an open secret: For years, hackers and feds have been strange bedfellows in the mission to defend military networks. Three-letter agencies set up recruiting booths with schwag at security conferences like Black Hat, and feds party it up with the computer nerds at the so-called “underground...
via Gov Info Security The Obama administration estimates the Defense Department will spend at least $3.2 billion on cybersecurity in fiscal year 2012, which begins Oct. 1, or so it thinks, according to an analysis by the Government Accountability Office issued Thursday. Reps. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas...
via boston.com State officials unveiled yesterday a new team of law enforcement officers, emergency planners, academics, and private businesses aimed at taking down threats to cyber security and tackling cyber attacks when they happen. Members of the new Rhode Island Cyber Disruption Team said the p...
via The Hillicon Valley The Senate Judiciary Committee will wade into the cybersecurity debate Tuesday with a hearing on the Obama administration’s legislative proposal in front of the subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, chaired by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). The Judiciary Committee is ...
via PC World The U.S. needs a cybersecurity emergency response capability to help businesses under major attacks, a U.S. senator said Monday. “Who do you call if your CIO is overwhelmed, if you’re a local bank or utility?” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said during a forum on cybersecu...
via The Hill The number of attacks on federal government networks rose 40 percent last year according to a new White House report on cybersecurity. Federal agencies reported 41,776 attacks in fiscal 2010 after seeing 30,000 the previous year, according to the Office of Management and Budget’s ...
via The Hill Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) unveiled a comprehensive cybersecurity bill on Wednesday that would give the Department of Homeland Security the authority to regulate the security of private networks deemed part of the nation’s critical infrastructure. “Our nation sits at a cruci...