Security

The Reality of Single Actor Attacks

April 15, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

Kevin David Mitnick, former most wanted hacker and reformed security consultant Editor’s note: Timothy Coleman is a prolific writer and analyst who publishes frequently on topics of interest to operational technologists as well as strategic technology thinkers. Olivia Wilson is an award winning literary theorist. We will be bringing you more of their writings in [...]

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3D printing facial implant, online orders delivered in fifteen minutes and more

April 8, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Marcus Williams Today’s cyber news we are tracking: 3D printing facial implant, Receiving online orders in less than 15 minutes, AV world rankings, and more. Technology has reinvented itself again. A British restaurant manager was diagnose with a cancerous tumor growing on the left side of his face. He was referred to a surgeon [...]

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The Use of Recorded Future for Cyber Security Professionals

March 27, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Bob Gourley We have previously written about Recorded Future, a fast moving startup delivering predictive signals from the noise of the web. Recorded Future provides a blog that captures several exemplars of their capability and its applicability in many mission areas. One mission area of particular interest in the use of Recorded Future for [...]

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Centripetal Networks Provides Internet Scale Cyber Defense

March 26, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Bob Gourley I’m on the board of Centripetal Networks, a firm with dramatically virtuous technology that I believe will change the world. With this post I’ll tell you more about this firm, with a focus on the differentiators of their capability. The core capability of Centripetal Networks is a product called the RuleGate. It [...]

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Organizations using web crawlers, DARPA will no longer support CFT, VMware’s Horizon Mirage 4.0

March 11, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Marcus Williams More Cyber News we are tracking: Several organizations around the country have been collecting and selling PII, DARPA will no longer support CFT, VMware’s Horizon Mirage 4.0, and more Who’s keeping track of Who? After reading this article it made me reconsider how I shop or pay bills online. Several organizations around [...]

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Evernote hacked, 2013 Cloud Security concerns and more

March 4, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Evernote Hack Exposes User Data, Forces Extensive Password Resets - If you are an Evernote user, chances are you got quite the shock this weekend. Evernote forced a manual reset for all of its users, and “About 50 million passwords have been [...]

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Triumfant: Malware Detection and Remediation

March 4, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Marcus Williams Background Triumfant, Inc. is a privately held company with a focus on detecting and remediating cyber attacks. Triumfant has a ’Assume Nothing, Scan everything’ approach to cyber detection and prevention. This approach was developed in response to changes in the threat landscape that greatly increased the frequency and sophistication of targeted attacks [...]

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INSA Publishes White Paper on Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise

February 19, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Bob Gourley The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) has released a white paper documenting the vision and approach for enhancing enterprise information technology in support of intelligence and national security missions. This paper, titled ”Doing in Common What Is Commonly Done” provides insights based on interviews of government leaders including CIOs, CTOs and [...]