• EAGLE task order opportunities

    With the federal fourth quarter underway, vendors are wondering where end-of-year spending will happen; task order vehicles are an obvious place to look because task orders can be competed and awarded quickly; DHS’s EAGLE task order is one example

  • New immunization strategy better in handling epidemics, computer viruses

    New immunization approach fragments the population to be immunized into many connected clusters of equal size; by creating equal-size clusters, doses do not have to be “wasted” on isolating very small clusters, as in the traditional targeted strategy

  • Legal skirmish over Defcon talk shows divide on disclosing security flaws

    Gag order slapped on MIT students who prepared a talk about Boston transit authority security flaw reignites debate over what “responsible disclosure” of security flaw means

  • Indian SMBs will spend $289 million on security related investments this year

    Business in India are becoming more aware of security threats and the need for continuity planning; the top three key trends among India SMBs are UTM (Unified Threat Management), BCS (Business Continuity Solutions), and MSS (Managed Security Services)

  • GSA implements IPv6

    GSA becomes the first civilian agency to implement IPv6; the current IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses, meaning it can offer about 4.3 billion addresses total; IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses, so it can offer an almost unlimited number of addresses — the first step toward achieving fully networked functionality among all electronic devices

  • Pentagon suspends USAF cyber effort

    The growing dependence of governments and militaries on the Internet has led the U.S. Air Force to create a new Cyber Command; the Air Force has now put this effort on hold

  • Who is behind cyber attacks on Georgia?

    Sustained cyber attacks of Georgian official Web sites, attacks which immediately preceded and then accompanied the Russian military action against the former Soviet republic, originated from a “hacker militia” of Russian botnet herders and volunteers

  • Five steps to safer virtual servers

    At the Black Hat conference, HP chief security strategist provided virtualization security advice

  • DOJ cybercrime task force shows results

    Two years ago the U.S. Department of Justice created Identity Theft Task Force, and has supported its work through vigorous prosecution of the various forms of identity theft

  • Russia-Georgia conflict shows new frontier in war

    Internet attacks on Georgia highlight a key flaw for more than 100 nations: most of these nations’ external connections go through other countries, and there is a lack of internal connections called Internet exchange points

  • Hackers hacked at DefCon gathering

    The tens of thousands of networks handling traffic on the Internet are programmed to trust each other for the best routes for data; a bad idea — since a hacker can hijack traffic to and from Web sites of choice by adding enough numbers to computer addresses to have his or her network automatically deemed the best path for the data

  • AuthenTec offer scanners for fingerptint-enabled phones

    AuthenTec has shipped more than seven million AuthenTec-enabled phones powered by the Symbian OS, comprising 14 mobile phone models using AuthenTec’s fingerprint sensors

  • Social networking sites are target-rich opportunity for hackers

    Social neyworking sites — Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn — are becoming more popular for both users and hackers; the biggest danger from social networking sites is that they embed powerful features that only few subscribers actually use, such as digital image or media files with the ability to download content from third-party Web sites, which expose users to risk

  • House's measures strengthen cybersecurity

    House passes eight measures intended strengthen cybersecurity, promote greater sharing of unclassified information, and prevent the over-classification of information

  • Hacker of U.S. defense computers about to be extradited to U.S.

    Seven years ago Gary McKinnon, a U.K. citizen, hacked into 92 computer systems at the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, the Department of Defense, and NASA; he said he was hoping to uncover evidence of UFOs; his string of appeals exhausted, he is to be extradited soon