Cubic Corporation Buys Abraxas

Cubic Corporation announced yesterday its acquisition of Herndon, Va.-based Abraxas Corporation, a national security, law enforcement and homeland security risk-mitigation firm.

San Diego, Calif.-based Cubic paid $124 million in cash, and the acquisition is expected to close next month.

Abraxas, which has more than 280 operational and technical experts, will become a wholly…

Web Users Get Paid to be Big Brother, Fight Crime

Crime never sleeps, and now thanks to a new surveillance project, neither do the crime fighters.

A company in Devon in southwestern England has launched a new website that pays citizens to monitor live commercial CCTV footage online in an effort to catch would-be criminals. Internet Eyes will pay up to…

Cyber Experts: Espionage, APTs, Malware among Most Dangerous Cyber Threats

Although cybersecurity experts have their separate ideas on what the most pressing Internet security concern is, they generally agree on one thing: The threat landscape is evolving into more attacks of increasing sophistication.

Here, 10 industry insiders offer their insight into what they believe are the most dangerous cyber threats, ranging from social engineering to cyber espionage.

Abraxas’ Lance Cottrell: Fierce Competition in Web-Privacy Sector

New companies aiming to help individuals and businesses protect their identities and web behavior from marketers are facing tough challenges in the marketplace.

It’s not just competition from privacy freeware providers and users’ reluctance to give personal information to smaller start-up companies – many are simply unaware about how visible their online behavior is.

Setting…

Lance Cottrell of Abraxas: ‘Substantial Civil-Liberty Impacts’ But No Security Benefits with Large-Scale Internet Surveillance

It may not sound like the most straightforward avenue into cybersecurity, but Abraxas’ chief scientist and cyber expert Lance Cottrell began his career as an astronomer. Pursuing graduate studies in astrophysics in San Diego in the early 1990s, Cottrell had direct access to the Internet, the web, and high-speed backbones at a time where no one outside the scientific…