“To get access to corporate networks, thieves use a variety of techniques. Phishing e-mails entice employees to click on links that surreptitiously load malware onto their computers, for instance, opening the door to corporate networks. Then there’s a relatively recent and increasingly commo...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Federal Bureau of Investigation will shut off the temporary servers it set up to help victims of the DNSChanger malware on July 9, leading to hundreds of thousands of Internet blackouts. More here. The hacker behind...
The SANS Institute announced on December 27 that the DHS National Cyber Security Division and Idaho National Laboratory have won the 2011U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for building cybersecurity skills needed to defend the power grid and other control systems....
At the advent of the Internet thirty years ago, the brand new Domain Name System (DNS) (which translated website names like science.com into a network address like 1.2.1.1 was trusted by everyone. Today, hackers take advantage of our long-standing trust in DNS and work to trick the system by stealin...
The Homeland Security Department’s cybersecurity stance has been reinvigorated, mostly thanks to a new face in the department’s cyber division. Alan Paller, the vice president for research at the SANS Institute,told Government Computer News the appointment of Mark Weatherford to lead ...
The SANS Institute announced today that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney General’s Office have won the 2011 U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for their innovative techniques in cyber law enforcement using the computer virus’ own command and control sy...
The SANS Institute announced today that the U.S. Department of State Office of the Chief Information Officer has won the 2011 U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for significantly improving the effectiveness of the nation’s cyber security for creating, deploying and sharing the De...
The SANS Institute announced today that the Cyber Threat Analysis Division in the Bureau of Diplomatic Security at the State Department has won the 2011 U.S. National Cyber Cybersecurity Innovation Award for its ground-breaking innovation in rapid identification and removal of targeted malware and n...