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NATO is reinforcing cybersecurity for its entire communications and information systems architecture and on all of its networks, including unclassified, restricted and secret networks. The project will be implemented in several phases and is...
A new pilot program in which Defense Department officials share classified threat intelligence with defense contractors or their commercial Internet service providers is showing promise in increasing their cyber defenses and preventing enemy intrusions...
Warfighters operating on the front lines in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world, can be confident that a corps of “cyber warriors” has their backs, and is working to protect the computer systems they...
Peiter Zatko, a hacker known as Mudge who now works at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has told security experts at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas of DARPA’s new “Cyber...
C4ISR / Contracts / Cyber Security / US DoD
The U.S. Army and Northrop Grumman Corporation have successfully completed anarchitecture review of the Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) BattleCommand System (IBCS). IBCS is the first major Army acquisition to proactivelyincorporate the evaluation...
The cyber threat the United States faces is increasing in severity and is accessible to a wide range of enemies, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said in a television interview broadcast. “Most...
The Defense Department’s first strategy for operating in cyberspace is a milestone in the fight to protect the nation from potentially devastating network attacks, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said today. (download...
The Pentagon released a long-promised cybersecurity plan Thursday that declares the Internet a domain of war. The plan notably does not spell out how the U.S. military would use the Web for offensive strikes,...
In March, a cyber attack on a defense company’s network captured 24,000 files containing Defense Department information. – Nations typically launch such attacks, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said, but a growing...
Against the background of rapidly developing technology, NATO is advancing its efforts to confront the wide range of cyber threats targeting the Alliance’s networks on a daily basis. NATO’s Strategic Concept and the 2010...
Lockheed Martin said May 29 it was investigating the source of a major cyber-attack one week ago against its information network, the company said. (see also here about the incident) “Lockheed Martin detected a...
Lockheed Martin Corp said on Saturday it had thwarted “a significant and tenacious attack” on its information systems network a week ago but was still working to restore employee access. The Department of Homeland...
The onslaught of cyber attacks against federal networks increased by 40 percent last year, according to an annual White House cybersecurity report. There were 41,776 attacks against agencies in the last fiscal year up...
Cyber Security / DHS / US DoD
The Pentagon, along with counterparts from the Department of Homeland Security, are working a new joint effort to protect a number of defense industry networks from cyberattacks. In the program, DoD and DHS computer...
DHS continues to deploy the Einstein 2 cyber intrusion detection system, which is now at 15 federal agencies and four major Internet service providers. Last year, the system detected over 5.4 million events, demonstrating...
China hacked South Korea’s secret military information on plans to introduce a U.S-made high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle, last June, an opposition lawmaker claimed on the 7th of March. Observers say Beijing may be unnerved...
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano today delivered remarks about the Department’s ongoing efforts to strengthen the nation’s cybersecurity at The Atlantic and Government Executive’s Cyber Security Forum. “Cybersecurity is about effective partnerships and shared security,”...
JOSH GERSTEIN in the Washington’s Politico describes a new trend to improve the “screening capability” by use of a new “big brother” facility: for sure different aspects of privacy should be explored If Americans...
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Iran has been experiencing significant technical problems with equipment in its uranium enrichment drive and temporarily shut down some of its centrifuge machines, Western diplomats said on Tuesday. One senior diplomat said Iran acted...
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For some time, terms prefixed with “cyber” have tended to become buzzwords in the international security debate. Cyberwar, cyber attacks and cyber threats were frequently mentioned in the discussions on NATO’s new Strategic Concept...