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Editor's note: This is an official release from US Cyber Command reposted here for your information. Approximately 300 attend week-long training By Col. Rivers Johnson U.S. Cyber Command Public Affairs Officer The U.S. Cyber Command, whose mission is to operate and defend the Department of Defense networks, recently conducted its first major tactical cyber exercise called Cyber Flag 12-1 in the first week of November. The joint cyberspace … [Read more...]
Android is a great mobile computing platform. It’s extensible, fairly easy-to-use (considering its plethora of features), has a great application store with hundreds of thousands of applications, and connects back with everything in Google so that all of Google’s information and services are at the users fingertip. For developers, it’s a very extendable platform which is able to integrate code from a variety of languages, run C programs, and deploy … [Read more...]
Yesterday I had a conversation with a senior sales rep by the name of Dan Adams from Oculis Labs, a Carahsoft partner. He was showing me a demonstration of the latest update of their software Private Eye Version 3.3. I was interested in this because I blogged about Private Eye over the summer after watching a demo and being impressed with the software. Private Eye is display protection for your computer screen, and is available for the enterprise. … [Read more...]
Android has been plagued by malware, security vulnerabilities, and now, privacy issues. It started with HTC's logging application which over-zealously logged aspects of phone use in insecure ways which made that data accessible by any application, and more recently has come to a head with the discovery of the carrier IQ application. The Carrier IQ application is supposedly a diagnostic tool which sits on a variety of phones including Android, iPhone, … [Read more...]
On Friday, December 16th, 2011, FedCyber.com will host a webinar featuring one of the great champions of secure code, Mr. Michael Howard. For more information and to register for this event see: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/551297622 More on the webinar: FedCyber.com is pleased to announce a special opportunity to interact with Mr. Michael Howard, author of the Security Development Lifecycle process improvements and lead security … [Read more...]
Earlier this month, a pump burned out mysteriously at a water plant in Springfield, Illinois. Log data traced the problem back several months to a command from an IP address in Russia that forced the pump to turn on and off repeatedly until it broke. When this news was leaked to the media from a cyber expert convinced that we were under attack by Russian hackers, a media frenzy ensued that made it all the way to Congress. On MSNBC, Rep. Jim Langevin, … [Read more...]
Editor's note: As a disclaimer, CTOvision.com editor in chief Bob Gourley is an advisor to Fixmo. So take that into account when reading this exciting news. The critical importance of mobile risk management (MRM) is a topic of high interest to almost all enterprises. Fixmo is a firm with solutions that directly address needs in this space. Fixmo MRM solutions include capabilities that continuously verify the integrity of mobile devices and apps, … [Read more...]
On Friday, December 16th, 2011, FedCyber.com will host a webinar featuring one of the great champions of secure code, Mr. Michael Howard. For more information and to register for this event see: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/551297622 More on the webinar: FedCyber.com is pleased to announce a special opportunity to interact with Mr. Michael Howard, author of the Security Development Lifecycle process improvements and lead security … [Read more...]
The state of computer security is in continual change. The only constant in this game is the very dynamic nature of defense and offense. If you are a defender you will always have a hard job. You will always need to be on the lookout for ways to succeed in the face of a dynamic, never ending threat. This special report is a summary of the Cyber Security category of the CTOvision.com blog. This means it is a summary of pieces we know and care … [Read more...]
NERC is an international, independent, not-for-profit organization, whose mission is to ensure the reliability of the bulk power system in North America. Here is a bit about them from their website at http://nerc.com : The North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) mission is to ensure the reliability of the North American bulk power system. NERC is the electric reliability organization (ERO) certified by the Federal Energy Regulatory … [Read more...]