Air Force School Zones in on Cyber Defense

During an Oct. 27 “DOD Live” bloggers roundtable, Air Force Brig. Gen. Walter D. Givhan, commandant of the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, discussed the importance of cybersecurity and the newest crop of students graduating from the AFIT Center for Cyberspace…

IT Chief Gets Prison Time for Hacking Former Employer’s Website

A fired IT director for Richmond, Va.-based Transmarx LLC was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for hacking into his former employer’s website.

After pleading guilty to one count of intentionally damaging a protected computer without authorization, Darnell H. Albert-El was sentenced and ordered to pay $6,700 in restitution to his former employer.

According to court documents, Transmarx fired Albert-El from his position as IT director in 2008….

UK Spam Out of Control

Ten percent of all websites in the United Kingdom send malicious and dangerous spam email, a statistics that has more than doubled since last October, according to a spam research company.

U.K.-based Spam Ratings said 20 percent of websites automatically opt in web users when it comes to sharing their details with third parties, despite the fact it violates email marketing best practice.

Forty percent of spam emails containing…

DHS: Cyber Warriors Will Respect Civil Rights

The Department of Homeland Security will protect Americans’ civil liberties and privacy while it teams up with the military to protect the nation’s computer networks, a senior homeland security official said.

An agreement with the military announced two weeks ago “in no way changes our respective departments’ promises to protect civil liberties…

DoD Names the Best of the Best in Information Management, Technology

Defense Department officials has named this year’s winners of the DoD Chief Information Officer awards at a Pentagon ceremony Thursday.

CIOs are used to being in the spotlight when things go wrong, David Wennergren, assistant deputy chief management officer for the office of the deputy secretary of defense, told the audience.

“But every…

Computers Safer than Mobile Devices, Americans Say

While Americans feel their home computers are protected from viruses, malware and hackers, most say they do not have the same faith when it comes to their mobile devices, according to 2010 National Cyber Security Alliance – Norton by Symantec Online Safety Study released today.

The study shows that only 24 percent…

Netherlands a Haven for Cyber Crooks

A hacker network in the Netherlands was unraveled earlier this week, and the main suspect nabbed in Armenia less than a day later.

While a Dutch expert hailed the operation as unique, the Netherlands still placed seventh on a list of countries hardest hit by cyber crime, according to Radio Netherlands Worldwide.

The Armenian suspect allegedly used 143 servers in the Netherlands to infect three million computers around the world,…

Intelligent Decisions to Support FBI’s IT Makeover

Intelligent Decisions, Inc. has been selected by the FBI as one of the firms to begin offering a host of IT services and products on the FBI IT Supplies and Support Services Contract.

Intelligent Decisions’ work on the FBI IT Triple S contract will include recommending, developing and…

Pirated Work on 4chan Spikes Sales for Portland Artist

4chan may not have the best rep around town, especially among anti-piracy groups, but the popular imageboard’s recent bootlegging effort has had a positive outcome for one artist, geek.com reports.

Last week, storyboard and comic book illustrator Steve Lieber discovered that the Underground graphic novel he had illustrated for Image Comics was scanned and uploaded to 4chan. But instead of getting upset, Lieber…

Report: Most Americans Support Internet ‘Kill Switch’

More than half of Americans have said the president should be able to shut down portions of the Internet in the event of a cyber attack, according to research conducted by Unisys Corporation.

The survey also found that while Americans are taking proactive steps to protect themselves against cyber crime and identity theft,…