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DARPA Holding Cyber Offense ‘Plan X’ Workshops with Contractors, Researchers

Citing an overwhelming response from contractors and researchers, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has rescheduled workshops on the agency’s plan to develop offensive cyber capabilities, Nextgov reports. Originally scheduled for Sept. 27, DARPA will now hold the “Plan X” sessions Oct. 15 and 16, Dawn Lim reports. The agency will hold two sessions with [...]

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Cyber Experts Take On Cybersecurity in Estonia Meet

June 7, 2011 No Comment

Three hundred cyber experts from around the world gathered in Tallinn today for a NATO Cyber Conflict conference to discuss the legal and political aspects of national and global cybersecurity amid a surge of attacks, AFP reports.   “The special focus at the conference this year is on generating cyber forces … the technologies, people [...]

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Kelly Collins of Fortify Software: Possible Creation of Cyber Weapon ‘Significant Concern’

February 24, 2011 No Comment

President of Fortify Software Public Sector, an HP company, Kelly Collins has a mantra for software security: Find, fix and (from the title of her firm) fortify. For too long, software security assurance has slipped under the radar. But now, Collins said the government is beginning to move to patch up “gaping holes in security [...]

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