Kratos SecureInfo Licensed to Assess AF Space Systems; Christopher Fountain Comments
April 8, 2013 No Comment
A Kratos Defense & Security Solutions cybersecurity business group has received a license to conduct information security assessments of space systems for the U.S. Air Force Space Command. Kratos SecureInfo can also make recommendations to the Air Force‘s space certifying authority on determining security certifications under the special agent of the certifying authority license, Kratos said [...]
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Mike McConnell, vice chairman at Booz Allen Hamilton, recently told a Todd Lecture series audience that every citizen must work together to protect the U.S. from cyber attacks that affect their ways of life. The former national intelligence director addressed cybersecurity issues facing the modern world last week at Norwich University in Northfield, Vt., the [...]
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LGS Innovations has won a $1 million task order to build systems intending to help the Department of Health and Human Services defend its networks from malware and security breaches. The Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary won the one-year order through the National Institutes of Health‘s CIO-SP3 contract vehicle, LGS said Thursday. Kevin Kelly, LGS CEO, said the [...]
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Patrick Gilmore: CyberBunker Caused ‘Largest DDoS Attack’ In Internet History
March 27, 2013 No Comment
A Netherlands-based web hosting firm was behind a denial of service attack that caused a global slowdown of the Internet, the Daily Telegraph reports. Switzerland-based Spamhaus, a not-for-profit anti-spam organization, placed CyberBunker on a blacklist of sites email providers use to filter spam. John Reid, a Spamhaus spokesman, told Bloomberg the distributed denial of service [...]
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Network defense and intelligence must integrate if government and businesses are to build their cybersecurity postures, a TASC cyber expert has recently said. Barbara Alexander, director of cyber intelligence in TASC’s infrastructure protection and security group, addressed the current cyber environment at the 2013 Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection Symposium on March 20. The [...]
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CA Technologies Inc. will buy application deployment company Nolio ASAP for more than $40 million, according to a TechCrunch statement. Nolio adds to the 10 Israeli start up companies acquired by CA, the most recent being website-monitoring firm WatchMouse, Leena Rao writes. The Israeli company offers software that automates the deployment of distributed applications and [...]
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General Dynamics’ Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions subsidiary has opened a new cybersecurity forensics, aiming to meet increasing demand from private companies for for cybersecurity services, the Batlimore Business Journal reports. Sarah Gantz writes the Columbia, Md.-based lab started operating last month and assesses each client’s network security, then designs an infrastructure to handle security issues. The [...]
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Three South Korean television networks and two major banks were recently hacked prompting the country’s Army to raise its alert level, according to a Reuters article. An investigation into the attacks on TV networks YTN, MBC and KBS and the Shinhan and NongJyup banks is still underway. “We are now assessing the situation. This incident [...]
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Cisco has completed the sale of Linksys to Belkin for an undisclosed amount, according to a Cnet article. Belkin will now manage and maintain Linksys’ technologies, including its routers and the smart WiFi portfolio and services as a separate brand and product portfolio. “The Linksys portfolio will continue to exist and evolve to include even richer user experiences [...]
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Raytheon has released an update to its SureView software aimed at helping federal agencies implement a presidential decree to tighten insider threat detection. SureView monitors employee activity even over both classified and classified networks, Raytheon said Wednesday. Version 6.7 includes a policy management wizard that contains a guide for users on which information they should [...]
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