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CSC, garnering fat contracts; is acquisition target
CSC should be an ideal acquisition target for Lockheed Martin, in the same way Anteon offered an attractive target for General Dynamics
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NetClarity to use RSS for real-time reconfiguration of countermeasures to threats
Machine-readable RSS to be used to detect internet threats, disseminate the information, and instigate countermeasures
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Civil Air Patrol uses instant messaging from IMLogic
Instant Messaging is not for teenagers only anymore. The Civil Air Patrol and other emergency services are beginning to use it to good effect
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Arxceo signs first OEM agreement; market recognizes value of anomaly-based cyber defense
You may have received a call from your credit card company asking whether it was really you who purchased thousands of dollars worth of lingerie in Hawaii two weeks ago; why did they call you? Anomalous behavior, that’s why; now a similar same behavior-based defense is brought to corporate IT security
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Cyber Tracker has second Middle Eastern client
Violence is never too far from the surface in the Middle East, but a rash of Syrian-sponsored assassinations in Beirut and al Queda-inspired suicide bombings in Amman lead local businesses to take security measures
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Security Alliance calls for greater leadership in protecting U.S. information infrastructure
The 9/11 Commission gave the administration many F’s and D’s on keeping America safe, and the leading U.S. cyber security alliance agrees, while calling on the administration to show more leadership — and more energy — in protecting the nation’s IT infrastructure
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The lesson of Titan Rain: Articulate the dangers of cyber attack to upper management
Last year the debate raged over whether Titan Rain was sponsored by the Chinese government or was the work of hackers, but either way one lesson is clear: IT administrators should talk to top management
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SANS to offer graduate-level degree program in information security
As demand for qualified homeland security personnel increases, prestigious cybersecurity institute launches graduate degree programs in IT security
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CounterStorm receives $9.5 million in Series B funding
CounterStorm leads the way in addressing an especially dangerous cyber threat — zero-day attacks. Customers like the product, and investors like the company
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Innofone conducts successful IPv6 summit
Innofone is the only company dedicated exclusively to demonstrating how to exploit the benefits of the futuristic IPv6, and more and more companies are interested in what it has to offer
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Brown ignored reports of FEMAs inadequate disaster plans – a year before Katrina
Thousands of FEMA documents reveal organization’s inadequacies, Brown’s negligence
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HISS files for NASDAQ BB, acquires GPS specialist ActSoft
Cyber Tracker maker acquires Comet Tracker maker
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Falkenrath joins advisory board of mesh-networking specialist PacketHop
Mesh networking is a food emergency communication solution, and Falkenrath can help bring in clients
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The long view
States Rush to Combat AI Threat to Elections
By Zachary Roth
This year’s presidential election will be the first since generative AI became widely available. That’s raising fears that millions of voters could be deceived by a barrage of political deepfakes. Congress has done little to address the issue, but states are moving aggressively to respond — though questions remain about how effective any new measures to combat AI-created disinformation will be.
Ransomware Attacks: Death Threats, Endangered Patients and Millions of Dollars in Damages
By Dino Jahic
A ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, a company that processes 15 billion health care transactions annually and deals with 1 in 3 patient records in the United States, is continuing to cause massive disruptions nearly three weeks later. The incident, which started on February 21, has been called the “most significant cyberattack on the U.S. health care system” by the American Hospital Association. It is just the latest example of an increasing trend.
Chinese Government Hackers Targeted Critics of China, U.S. Businesses and Politicians
An indictment was unsealed Monday charging seven nationals of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with conspiracy to commit computer intrusions and conspiracy to commit wire fraud for their involvement in a PRC-based hacking group that spent approximately 14 years targeting U.S. and foreign critics, businesses, and political officials in furtherance of the PRC’s economic espionage and foreign intelligence objectives.
Autonomous Vehicle Technology Vulnerable to Road Object Spoofing and Vanishing Attacks
Researchers have demonstrated the potentially hazardous vulnerabilities associated with the technology called LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, many autonomous vehicles use to navigate streets, roads and highways. The researchers have shown how to use lasers to fool LiDAR into “seeing” objects that are not present and missing those that are – deficiencies that can cause unwarranted and unsafe braking or collisions.
Tantalizing Method to Study Cyberdeterrence
By Trina West
Tantalus is unlike most war games because it is experimental instead of experiential — the immersive game differs by overlapping scientific rigor and quantitative assessment methods with the experimental sciences, and experimental war gaming provides insightful data for real-world cyberattacks.