To get ready for the FedCyber Summit on Wednesday, we spoke to some of our sponsors about the current state of the Federal Cyber ecosystem, and what they are doing to advance it. I asked Doug Meyer, Cyber Security Practice Manager of Fulcrum IT to answer the following questions: Q: What is the bigge...
via e! Science News Thanks to advances in experimental design, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have achieved a record-low probability of error in quantum information processing with a single quantum bit (qubit) — the first published error rate small enou...
via The Washington Times A .S. intelligence official tells Inside the Ring that China is the main suspect in the sophisticated computer attack on the defense giant Lockheed Martin announced Sunday. The Bethesda-based company said in a statement that its computer network was targeted May 21 with a &#...
via Gov Info Security Recognizing the reality of cyberthreats doesn’t mean that organizations take the proper actions to prevent them. That’s a takeaway of a new survey of IT security executives in energy sector conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (the public ...
via ComputerWorld In the indictment that led to the expulsion of 10 Russian spies from the U.S. last summer, the FBI said that it had gained access to their encrypted communications after surreptitiously entering one of the spies’ homes, where agents found a piece of paper with a 27-character ...
via Government Computer News The Federal Information Security Management Act has been criticized as a paperwork exercise that has cost agencies millions of dollars without improving security. But a handful of officials beg to differ: They say the problem is not the tool but how it has been used. “...