Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Kapersky Labs has uncovered a massive cyber espionage campaign using malware called Flame to collect private data in countries including Iran, Israel, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. More here. Researchers ...
“Senior military leaders are recommending that the Pentagon’s two-year-old cyberwarfare unit be elevated to full combatant command status, sending a signal to adversaries that the U.S. military is serious about protecting its ability to operate in cyberspace, officials said.” (Military...
““China’s continuing efforts to acquire U.S. military and dual-use technologies are enabling China’s science and technology base to diminish the U.S. technological edge in areas critical to the development of weapons and communications systems,” the report released yesterday found. “...
Todd Park, previously the CTO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has been named the new United States Chief Technology Officer. More here. The U.S. Energy Information Administration, which gathers and posts oil and natural-gas supply statistics used by commodity traders, announce...
The U.S. military received an unwanted present this Christmas holiday season in the form of an “aggressive” phishing attack that’s been making the rounds of .mil email accounts, according to the Army....
The U.S. military is bolstering its use of technology on the battlefield with new devices and capabilities aimed at improving how soldiers communicate. New rugged routers for military vehicles and satellite- and radio-based networking technologies the Department of Defense plans to deploy will give ...
The assistance from the agency that conducts electronic spying overseas is part of an effort by American banks and other financial firms to get help from the U.S. military and private defense contractors to fend off cyber attacks, according to interviews with U.S. officials, security experts and def...
A virus that attacked the system that controls U.S. military drones was never an operational threat, but merely a “nuisance,” the Air Force said late Wednesday. The statement was the first official one from the U.S. military after Wired first reported of the virus last Friday. The Air...