Featured Job- Cyber Intel Analyst with Lockheed Martin

Cyber Security Tools Experience IDS Monitoring Desired skills ArcSight ESM ArcSight Log Management Suite ArcSight Threat Response Manager Forensics Malware Analysis Specific Job Description Successful candidates will provide intrustion/incident monitoring and detection utilizing customer provided data sources, audit and monitoring tools at the Unclass, Secret and Top Secret levels. Staff will provide security situational awareness through analysis and correlation of multiple customer provided data sources. Staff will aid with the determination and escalation…

GAO Study Calls for Continued Attention to Secure Cyber Systems

In order to secure federal IT systems, continued attention is needed, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).  The report identified severe deficiencies in security controls at a number of federal agencies, which have left persistent vulnerabilities.

“These weaknesses in the security of both financial and non-financial systems and information, including vulnerabilities in critical federal systems,” the…

Track a Hacker, Or Hit Him Back

Attribution is a commonly bemoaned issue in cybersecurity, with many cyber experts claiming that the inability to attribute attacks definitively to a source is a problem in developing a coherent cyber-response strategy. However, a security researcher may have found a way to solve that problem, according to The Register.

Laurent Oudot, CEO of French security consultancy Tehtri-Security, has released details regarding vulnerabilities in commonly-used crime-ware kits. Oudot pointed to 13…

Defense Firms Hit by Cyber Espionage at Arms Show

This week, France plays host to Eurosatory, one of the largest land-arms shows in the world, located near Paris. The exhibition space has representatives from more than 130 countries, according to Reuters.

The arms show is also a cyber sleuths heaven, with major defense contractors coming under siege from cyber espionage.

“It is very easy to go crawling over everybody’s …

Featured Job- Senior Director, Cyber Security Business Development with CACI

Senior Director, Cyber Security Business Development (47024)

USA-VA-Fairfax

Security Clearance: Top Secret

Clearance Status: Must be Current

Schedule: Full Time

Shift: 1st

Type of Travel: Local

Percent of Travel Required: Up to 25%

Description

Duties and Responsibilities:

Conduct business development activities to identify and qualify Cyber Security programs & task orders of significant value, with a special focus on emerging business opportunities at U.S. Cyber Command, Service component cyber security commands, as well as other…

Chinese Call for Cooperation – with Limits

While many people consider China to be one of the central perpetrators of cyber malfeasance, it is also equally concerned about cyber attacks. As such, the Chinese are now looking to promote greater cooperation on the international stage for cyberspace.

Approximately 40,000 websites in China were hacked in 2009 alone, according to official statistics. Back in January, Baidu, a Chinese…

DHS Official: Cybersecurity Mission Requires Teamwork

The United States must be aware and focused on combating the threats in cyberspace, a DHS official told members of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

“As a nation, it is essential that we are aware of, and focused on, the cyber threat,” Greg Schaffer, assistant secretary at the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications at…

Paraguyan Government Website Hosts Phishing Data

Phishing gangs are growing increasingly bold, evinced by researchers finding phishing data on website owned by the Paraguyan government. Sunbelt researchers discovered that a website belonging to the Paraguyan government is hosting data on banks and insurance companies in the United Kingdom gathered through phishing attacks.

The researchers have notified the website owners regarding the data cache. Typically, researchers will sit on the data and try to learn…

Banks Under Siege in Eastern Europe

A group of cyber criminals are placing banks in Russia and the Ukraine under siege with a next-generation exploitation kit that hacks the authentication system and uses a denial of service attack.

The attacks use a revised version of BlackEnergy, which was commonly used in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The criminals are using the new and improved version to transfer funds from electronic bank accounts and then attack…

DHS IG: US-CERT Needs Work

Despite the various accomplishments of the U.S.-CERT in the past few years, there are still many areas that need improvement, DHS’ Inspector General told members of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

During a hearing June 16, Richard Skiner told members U.S.-CERT has had some successes but still doesn’t provide analysis and warning for the federal government as…