Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Department of Energy has named its former Deputy Chief Information Officer Bob Brese as the new CIO. More here. The National Security Agency will not reveal how many Americans had their communications monitored to se...
A design flaw in the WiFi protected setup (WPS) specification for the PIN authentication used by many wireless routers “significantly” reduces the time required to launch a brute force attack against the PIN because the flaw allows an attacker to know when the first half of the eight digit PIN i...
The United States and European Union have conducted their first-ever cybersecurity joint exercise, which was designed to improve collaboration and speed responses to cyber attacks. Lee Rock, acting director of US-CERT, told InformationWeek in an interview Friday that the Cyber Atlantic 2011 Exerci...
via infosecurity.com On Wednesday, Maine Secretary of State Charlie Summers said a CVS-linked computer in one of the town offices was infected with data-stealing malware. He said that his office had been tipped off about the data breach by the Department of Homeland Security’s US-CERT team. &#...
via Fierce Government IT Guidance for government agencies on what constitutes a cyber event and who to call if an incident occurs remain unclear. What’s more, US CERT, the Homeland Security Department’s operational arm for responding to and defending against cyber attacks, doesn’t ...