Kratos Subsidiary Wins $5.8M to Build Decoy Fuselages; Glenn Wells Comments
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc. subsidiary Sacramento, CA.-based Composite Engineering Inc. has won a $5.8 million contract to produce Lot 5 miniature air launched decoy fuselages, according to a company statement. “We are proud and excited to continue our support to the U.S. Air Force and Raytheon on the MALD-J,” said Glenn Wells, CEI senior [...]
Lockheed Martin has been working closely with member companies of their Cybersecurity Alliance, Federal News Radio reported in an interview with Curt Aubley, vice president and chief technology officer for Lockheed. The alliance, led by Lockheed, was formed in 2009 as a way to develop and introduce new technology to combat electronic hacking attempts. The [...]
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Knowledge Consulting Group today announced that it has been awarded a blanket purchase agreement by the U.S. General Services Administration and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to provide cybersecurity services to the federal government. The BPA allows KCG to provide agencies with certification and accreditation services to implement guidelines released by the National Institute of [...]
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Nearly two billion Internet users are vulnerable to scams and cyber assaults, in particular what a security company calls “crimeware-as-a-service” carried out by organized cyber criminals. In a newly released report by CA Technologies, researchers noted how Trojans are today the most common category of new threats, accounting for 73 percent of total threat infections [...]
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Hackers have created a new version of the crimeware toolkit known as Zeus which is designed to appropriate login credentials for banks in Germany, Spain, the United States and the UK. The malware, described by researchers with CA as “Zeus version 3,” is increasingly selective in its targets, with one variant targeting German and Spanish [...]
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The infamous Storm Worm has returned from the dead, according to researchers with CA. Storm was once responsible for 20 percent of the world’s spam but began to decline in 2007 when Microsoft undertook a massive cleaning operation. Eventually, the botnet was allegedly destroyed. CA researchers claim that they have found a new botnet that [...]
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A researcher with CA has found a banking Trojan that uses a more aggressive approach to attempting to steal login credentials. Zarestel Ferrer, a senior research engineer with CA, found a Trojan which, following a drive-by download, will continue to launch pop-ups on a victims computer prompting them to update their bank login credentials until [...]
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CA, Inc. recently released its report on the State of the Internet 2009, which profiles some of the top threats on the internet for 2009. Some of the top threats include fake security software, social networking and Web 2.0 technologies. The report also looks towards the coming year, predicting that malvertising will increase and that [...]
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