The National Institute of Standards and Technology is looking to use a $300 million increase in funding to improve its wireless communications network for first responders and emergency workers. More here. The DoD plans to recruit and retain cybersecurity professionals through a scholarship progra...
A secure, interoperable radio network that the Department of Justice has been working on for more than a decade and that has cost the agency $356 million may be headed for failure, according to a new report by the agency’s inspector general....
via NetworkWorld We’ve questioned whether or not IT departments are too slow to patch Windows, and then took a survey that basically told us what we know, that patching Windows is a necessary evil and a huge time sink for IT. Well it must be a royal pain for TSA IT as well. DHS Office of In...
via HSToday.us The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently adopted improvements in practices to patch and configure software on its wireless networks to improve cybersecurity, following recommendations of the inspector general (IG) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The DHS ...
via HSToday.com The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently adopted improvements in practices to patch and configure software on its wireless networks to improve cybersecurity, following recommendations of the inspector general (IG) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The DHS...
via National Defense Magazine The hacker is only one ingredient in a network intrusion. While leaders are rightly concerned about outsiders breaking into their networks, they also realize that their own employees may have as much to do with the next breach as an outsider. In the rush to defend criti...
via Fierce Government IT An audit from the Health and Human Services inspector general questions the ability of private sector hospitals to protect health information in electronic form. Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, more commonly known as HIPAA, hospitals have a dut...
via Federal News Radio The FBI has arrested two hackers for online theft of e-mail addresses and other personal information. Andrew Auernheimer and Daniel Spitler were trolls who allegedly hacked AT&T servers to get information about 120,000 iPad users. They developed a program called iPad 3G Ac...