NSA Targeting Android Version Against Bad Apps

The National Security Agency has released a version of Android that features stricter-access control policies, according to InformationWeek.

Security Enhanced Android was designed to identify and address gaps in Android’s security regarding applications, including problems with malicious and bad apps. The project page says the new version will limit damage from bad apps.

NSA said the release…

NSA Director: Defense Network Not ‘Defensible’

For fiscal year 2012, the U.S. government allotted more than $318 million to be used in support of cybersecurity integration, development and workforce needs.

Army Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, recently shed some light on growing concerns regarding the U.S.’s defense capabilities against cyber…

App Mall, Geospatial Collaboration in Works as Army Moves Intelligence to Cloud

In October, the director of the National Security Agency wanted to make clear to a Baltimore audience his views on the intelligence community using cloud computing.

“We need to go from our legacy databases to the cloud,” Army Gen. Keith Alexander said.

Alexander explained that cloud computing offers a better end-to-end view of…

British Intelligence Agency Uses Contest to Attract Recruits

Can you crack the code below?

“Help everyone lower loans on housing, ouch wallets are running empty your over under.”

For an experienced “cryptographer,” the message is all but elementary to uncover, as it is written in one of the oldest and most used ciphers. By recording the first letter of each word in the sentence above, and using a little creativity by spacing out the letters, you will find the…

NSA Approves ITT Network Processors to Store Top Secret Apps

ITT Corp.’s Coyote family of secure network processors has been certified by the U.S. National Security Agency to protect any packet-based protocol for the network, voice, data and storage of top secret and below applications.

The Coyote program includes two fully-programmable cryptographic system-on-chip secure network processors, BlackRiver-AARIS-777 and Havasu-AARIS-457.

BlackRiver-AARIS-777 is top-secret certified and the Havasu-AARIS-457 is below certified.

Both support a…

ITT Announces New Secure Mobile Devices, Platform for Situational Awareness

ITT Corp. announced today that it has developed a commercial-based smartphone and tablet designed for use by the Defense Department. Each item will be equipped with ITT’s National Security Agency-certified AARIS-457 network processor, which is approved for secret and below usages. 

“ITT’s hardware crypto solution gives our customers a communication capability and security that is proven,…

Pentagon Cyber Official: Cybersecurity Requires ‘Whole of Government’ Approach

In line with an agreement between the department secretaries last fall and the recently released International Strategy for Cyberspace, the Defense Department and Department of Homeland Security are sharing cybersecurity information, capabilities and expertise, a Pentagon official said.

Robert J. Butler, deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy, testified before…

NSA Certifies General Dynamics C4 Systems Encryptor

The National Security Agency has certified General Dynamics C4 Systems‘ KG-530 SONET OC-768C in-line network encryptor to secure information classified to the Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information level and below.

The KG-530 significantly reduces network delay or latency commonly experienced when working with large quantities of classified information. The…

TASC VP Named among Maryland’s Top 100 Women

TASC Vice President of Business Development Rosemary Budd has been named one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women for her professional accomplishments, community leadership and mentoring.

“Rosemary exemplifies what the people of TASC strive to be: talented professionals who are passionate about the mission of their customers and leaders who seek ways to strengthen the communities where…

DISA Moves HQ to Fort Meade

With 1,300 members of its workforce already relocated, the Defense Information Systems Agency has moved its headquarters from Arlington, Va.,  to Fort Meade, Md., which also houses the National Security Agency, according to The Washington Post.

DISA Director Lt. Gen. Carroll F. Pollett said last week 600 more employees would be…