Northrop Reports to Congress on China Cyber Threat to US Military, Infrastructure
March 8, 2012 No CommentNorthrop Grumman Corp. warned Congress in a report Thursday that China poses a genuine cyberwarfare risk to the U.S. military in conflict, Reuters reports. Northrop issued a 136-page report to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, suggesting China is adamant in creating diverse and technically advanced cyberspace abilities. Northrop said Chinese cyber capabilities have [...]
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NATO is playing catch up when it comes to cybersecurity, according to a report from the Atlantic Council. The council’s cyber statecraft initiative released a report Monday, urging NATO to improve its cyber infrastructure and policies immediately. NATO is already working to mature its cyber capabilities and created the Cyber Defense Policy and Action Plan in June [...]
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Computers used by nearly half of the government’s major agencies may be forced offline early next month. Researchers from the security firm Internet Identity reported at least one computer or router within 27 of 55 government entities was infected with the DNSChanger virus. The virus works by forcing infected machines to communicate with fraudulent and [...]
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In response to the accelerating pace of technological change and the increasing importance of cyber operations, Air Force Chief Information Officer Lt. Gen. Bill Lord said Thursday the branch will update training processes for the expanse of Air Force personnel. Amber Corrin wrote in a Federal Computer Week report Monday that Lord announced the Air [...]
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology is partnering with the state of Maryland and Montgomery County, Md. to establish a cybersecurity center near NIST’s Gaithersburg, Md. campus. NIST said on Tuesday it signed a memorandum of understanding with state and county representatives to establish the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. NIST said the center [...]
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The Air Force and Postal Service inspectors recently caught a cyber thief by analyzing computer data, according to an official Air Force report. Rene Quimby located vulnerabilities in the Army and Air Force Exchange Service website compromised 16,000 users’ information. Postal Inspection Service agents obtained Quimby’s computer, which contained 132 gigabytes of victim data. Several postal inspectors [...]
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In the cybersecurity realm, malicious software is not blacklisted unless it is first labeled as malicious. However, the National Security Agency has plans to use a program where software is blocked unless it is approved by a systems administrator or “whitelisted,” NextGov reports. This would shift the focus on securing computers using a flagging system, [...]
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology will increase its focus on big data and increased use of mobile devices in 2012, a NIST lab director told InformationWeek. NIST Information Technology Laboratory Director Chuck Romaine said that NIST is working to issue standards for big data technologies. NIST helped publish a report in 2009 that [...]
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In a 2010 strategic concept report, NATO said cyber attacks were becoming more damaging to government administrations and economies. NATO leaders are meeting in Brussels, Belgium this week but cybersecurity measures from the organization are still not clear because NATO is not sure of what to do in the event of a major cyber attack, Wired [...]
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The United Cross Domain Management Office has added Raytheon’s data guard product WebShield to the office’s version 4.1 baseline list, Raytheon announced Tuesday. The baseline list includes approved products using cross domain technologies that Defense Department and intelligence community agencies can use. The UCDMO requires products be functional, have a government sponsor and have a three-year [...]
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