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Yahoo Testing ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ Theory on Facebook
Published on 19 Aug, 2011 at 13:46 in Industry News | Viewed 53 times | No Comments
Yahoo Research launched an online study this week to test the well-known social theory that says any two people can be linked through six degrees of separation.
To pull off the Small World Experiment, Yahoo is asking for help from the the nearly 750 million Facebook users.
Any Facebook user can…
Anonymous Hacks Vanguard Defense Industries, Leaks Emails and Documents
Published on 19 Aug, 2011 at 10:36 in Cyber | Viewed 99 times | No Comments
The hacking collective known as Anonymous has breached the system of yet another defense contractor.
In a tweet posted today on a Twitter account maintained by members of the AntiSec collective, the group announced the release nearly 4,713 emails and thousands of documents belonging to Richard Garcia, the senior vice president of Vanguard Defense Industries.
According to The Hacker News, AntiSec targeted VDI’s website due to their…
Amazon Web Services Launches GovCloud; Teresa Carlson Comments
Published on 18 Aug, 2011 at 14:25 in Industry News | Viewed 62 times | No Comments
Amazon Web Services announced this week the release of AWS GovCloud, a new, U.S.-only AWS region platform designed to provide government agencies with secure cloud computing capabilities.
According to AWS, the cloud services will allow U.S. government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and…
VA Announces Finalists for Innovation Competition
Published on 18 Aug, 2011 at 14:20 in Cyber | Viewed 35 times | No Comments
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced this week the twelve finalists that have been selected for the latest innovation initiative competition.
The competition, which aims to generate new ideas to help service-disabled veterans obtain meaningful employment, received more than 700 proposals submitted by department employees.
According to VA, peer review, enabled by crowd-sourcing technology and combined with…
McAfee Study: Majority of Online Shoppers Concerned About Information Security
Published on 18 Aug, 2011 at 10:49 in Industry News | Viewed 27 times | No Comments
McAfee released today a study that found the majority of online shoppers question the security of their personal information when purchasing items on the Internet.
According to the study, which was conducted by Harris Interactive, only about a third of online consumers believe that most websites are safe for shopping, an 11 percent decrease since McAfee conducted…
IBM’s New Cognitive Computer Chip Mimics Human Brain
Published on 18 Aug, 2011 at 10:18 in Industry News | Viewed 36 times | No Comments
IBM unveiled today a new experimental computer chip that mimics the human brain in its ability to perceive, act and even think.
The technology could yield many orders of magnitude less power consumption and space than used in today’s computers by recreating “the phenomena between spiking neurons and synapses in biological systems, such as the brain,…
Lockheed Martin Promotes STEM Education at NASA IT Summit 2011
Published on 17 Aug, 2011 at 15:43 in Cyber | Viewed 50 times | No Comments
Lockheed Martin presented today some of the latest advances in the information technology industry to students at the NASA IT Summit 2011 Education Blast Off in San Francisco, Calif., as part of its mission to promote careers in science, technology, engineering and math,
The Education Blast Off session is part of the…
SpyEye Trojan Source Code Made Public
Published on 17 Aug, 2011 at 11:37 in Cyber | Viewed 70 times | No Comments
Security firm Damballa announced recently that the source code for the SpyEye Trojan has been leaked to the public, giving other malware developers easy access to the toolkit.
According to the Sean Bodmer, a senior threat intelligence analyst at Damballa, the leak of the SpyEye code puts one of the world’s largest botnet criminal enterprises at risk to all sorts of horizontal and vertical attacks by world governments,…
Lynn: Sharing Intelligence Helps Contractors Strengthen Cyber Defenses
Published on 17 Aug, 2011 at 10:46 in GovCon Industry | Viewed 144 times | 1 Comment
According to U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III, the open sharing of federal cyber intelligence operations helps contractors strengthen defenses.
During his talk yesterday at the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Customer and Industry Forum in Baltimore, Md., Lynn told attendees that results from a new pilot…
Former IT Admin Pleads Guilty to Cyber Attack
Published on 17 Aug, 2011 at 10:15 in Cyber | Viewed 43 times | No Comments
A Georgia man pleaded guilty this week to hacking the computer system of Shionogi, Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of a Japanese pharmaceutical company, and wreaking havoc on its internal servers.
According to federal prosecutors in New Jersey, Jason Cornish, 37, admitted to using a public server in Smyrna, Ga., to infiltrate the network of the Shionogi subsidiary after he had ended his employment as an information technology administrator…
