By RyanKamauff Happy back to work day folks! Here are the top cyber stories of the day. Naval Reactor Program needed to consider more options for business system – a recent OIG report found that The Naval Reactors Program failed to report spending of more than $10 million or adequately consi...
By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Senate cyber bill is ‘dead’ – Senator Harry Reid of Nevada (the majority leader) has pronounced that the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 is officially dead this year, after they failed to gain the 60 votes necessary. Mos...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working on an All Source Positioning and Navigation (ASPN) project to provide robust, seamless, low cost navigation with or without GPS. More here. Debora Plunkett, director...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved its version of the National Defense Authorization Act which would aim to recruit young people to work in cybersecurity, develop a Department of Defense cyber testing and eva...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The State Department purchased anti-Al Qaeda ads on affiliate websites to counter their message and did not, as initial reports claim, hack the Al Qaeda sites. More here. The WikiBoat, a new hacking group, launched its op...
According to an internal Energy Department audit, the federal utility Bonneville Power Administration, which provides power to over 305 of the Pacific Northwest, is at risk due to weak passwords. Overall, the DoE found a 60 percent increase in vulnerabilities between 2010 and 2011 across the depar...
After 6 years and $450 million of development, the FBI’s Sentinel, a case management system designed to allow collaboration and a unified, digital workflow, is almost complete. More here. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) reports that while IRS Computer Security In...
DARPA Director Regina Dugan is leaving government for a new job at Google, another in the growing list of government technology executives leaving for the private sector. More here. The Army cautioned deployed military personnel about the use of Geotagging on social media, which runs the risk of e...