The National Institute of Standards and Technology is establishing the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, a public-private collaboration aimed at accelerating the widespread adoption of integrated cybersecurity tools and technologies. NIST Director Patrick Gallagher, at ceremonies on Feb. ...
Long Island’s business and technology leaders began an effort Tuesday to start a new industry here that would focus on protecting companies, government agencies and individuals from cyber attacks that have been increasingly causing chaos in the financial world and other industries. More than 1...
Cryptography researcher Arjen Lenstra has this week responded to criticism of a paper he co-authored that claimed to uncover weaknesses within the implementation of the RSA encryption system. RSA, a division of IT giant EMC, says that there’s nothing wrong with the RSA algorithm, it’s an...
NIST information risk management evangelist Ron Ross sees continuous monitoring playing a vital role in securing cloud computing. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program known as FedRAMP fits very nicely with continuous monitoring by allowing agencies to define good sets of security re...
It’s an oft-repeated mantra: Organizations engaged in or investigating cloud computing in any of its many flavors are concerned about security. In fact, concerns about security, data privacy and data residency are often cited as inhibitors to cloud adoption. But are the concerns justified? Som...
We all know about computer hackers and the importance of being safe online but what about offline? Many of us have old electronics just lying around waiting to be tossed. My laptop computer hasn’t worked for more than two years but I wanted to see if the files and information on it were still...
Iran’s Minister of Communications has announced that the launch of the “national internet”, which was scheduled for February, has been postponed to June. The Mehr News Agency reports that Reza Taghipour said in a meeting on Saturday: “Supporting local software and creating se...
The computer-hacking confederacy Anonymous might be able to cause a limited power blackout in a year or two, the general who directs the National Security Agency has warned officials, TheWall Street Journal is reporting. Gen. Keith Alexander’s warning of a cyberattack on the electrical grid ha...