The heightened surveillance of classified government information networks that was a predictable response to the unauthorized disclosures published by WikiLeaks is becoming more clearly discernible. “USSTRATCOM/USCYBERCOM is monitoring use of the SIPRNet and now has a mechanism for reporting certa...
The FBI plans to mine social media postings for potential terrorist activity, raising privacy concerns as law enforcement seeks ways to combat security threats....
A new dashboard created by the nonprofit group Expert Labs ranks 125 federal agencies each week based on their public engagement on Twitter. The Federal Social Media Index mixes traditional measures of Twitter success, such as the number of new followers an agency gains weekly, with more complex...
When the U.S. Department of Homeland Security receives information about potential threats to the U.S., agents may turn to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Caryn Wagner, undersecretary of the DHS, told an audience Monday at the National Symposium on Homeland Security and Defense in...
via The Hacker News The WikiLeaks website, which contains thousands of U.S. embassy cables, has crashed in an apparent cyberattack. The anti-secrecy organization said in a Twitter message Tuesday that Wikileaks.org “is presently under attack.” Wikileaks.org today released 250,000 U.S....
via DoD BUZZ If you are like millions of government and private-sector workers, you hate your work computer. You hate Microsoft Outlook. You hate your official-issue mobile device — most likely a staid ol’ BlackBerry. So you set up your own processes to work with the hardware and softwar...
via Washington Times This week, the group – apparently less than a dozen strong – posted hundreds of internal documents stolen from the Arizona State Police computer network, including the home addresses of several officers and their families. Cybersecurity experts tell The Washington Ti...
via abc.net.au Cyber security experts are warning that the growing practice of sharing and storing information online could make more companies and institutions vulnerable to attack from hackers. The warning comes as the full extent of a major attack by the hacking group LulzSec becomes clearer. Lul...