Vincent Mihalik of Wyle: Majority of Cyber Threats Could Be Reduced by Following Best Practices

Vincent Mihalik has more than 25 years of Department of Defense experience specializing in cybersecurity, business and IT strategic planning, IT transformation, program management, and emerging technology assessments. Throughout his career, he worked closely with the heads of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Army G-2, as well as led congressional…

Symantec’s Top Five Cyber Predictions Progression

Prior to 2010, Symantec released its top five cyber predictions for the year. In a recent article published by Forbes, Vincent Weafer, vice president of Symantec Security Technology and Response, looked at how the five predictions were progressing.

Prediction 1: Anti-virus software would not be enough to stem the tide of cyber attacks.

Assessment: “Traditional anti-virus software that…

Heritage Scholar: America Needs Clearer Lines of Authority in Cyber

In a recent piece published on the Heritage Foundation’s website, Paul Rosenzweig, a principal at Red Branch Consulting, PLLC, and a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation, writes the United States still needs to better delineate lines of authority in the realm of cybersecurity.

“The Obama administration made a strong start at rationalizing U.S. cybersecurity policies, including an…

Pro-Palestinian Hack Hits UK Government Website

The National Skills Academy, a UK government training organization, has been hit in a hacking attack that appears to be pro-Palestine in nature.

The homepage of the organization was hacked and defaced with a pro-Palestinian message related to the recent events involving the so-called Gaza Flotilla. The web graffiti read:

“Virtual Protests will continue..! Everything for PALESTINE! JaCKal Ownz Your System. I came challengeing to the world THE END.”

The site administrators…

Police Extend Detention of Computer Scientist

Police authorities in India have announced plans to extend the detention of a computer scientist arrested earlier who pointed to security flaws in an electronic voting system.

A metropolitan court magistrate in Mumbai denied a motion to to release Hari Prasad on bail prior to Aug. 28. Prasad was arrested when he refused to divulge the source who gave him an electronic voting machine to use in his…

Cyber Firm ArcSight Up for Sale

Cybersecurity firm ArcSight has put itself up for sale, with potential buyers including Oracle Corp, IBM and HP, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The possibility of an acquisition has increased the firm’s stock price 29.7 percent to $36.63. According to WSJ, any acquisition deal could be for around $40 per share or…

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DoD’s New Cyber Strategy

The Pentagon has a new cyber strategy, outlined by Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III in the September/October edition of Foreign Affairs.

“Although cyberspace is a man-made domain, it has become just as critical to military operations as land, sea, air and space,” Lynn writes. “As such, the military must be able to defense…

Senate May Attach Cyber Legislation to Defense Authorization Bill

The Senate is considering adding cybersecurity legislation to the defense authorization bill to ensure that some semblance of cyber legislation is passed this year, Sen. Thomas Carper told GovInfoSecurity.

“It’s hard to get a measure like cybersecurity legislation passed on its own,” Carper said.

Cyber backers are considering adding cyber legislation to a bill that…

CACI’s Cofoni: ‘If We Tried to Centralize Every Need for Cyber, We Would Fail Utterly’

As part of its “Top Secret America” investigative piece, The Washington Post spoke with Zal Azmi and Paul Cofoni of CACI, who serve as the cyber lead and president and CEO respectively.

Recently, CACI hosted a symposium titled “Cyber Threats to National Security,” which looked at cyber threats and produced several recommendations for…