Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Excluding intelligence agencies, which keep their costs secret, the U.S. Government spent $11 billion last year keeping classified information secret, twice the cost of classification a decade ago. More here. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has built “a prototype for automatically generating and distributing believable misinformation [...]
The Cost of Government Secrecy, Brainwave Controlled Video Games to Fight PTSD, and More
July 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Attacks on Industrial Control Systems Spike, Air Force Smartphone Games for New Recruits, and More
July 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team within the Department of Homeland Security reports a a 20-fold leap in the number of incidents since the team was created in 2009. More here. The Homeland Security Infrastructure Program gave Colorado authorities fighting deadly wildfires access to sensitive data [...]
USAID Cybersecurity Challenges, Mobile Security Guidance, and More
June 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The U.S. Agency for International Development has plans to improve its Federal Information Security Management Act cybersecurity score, which fell from an ‘A’ to an ‘F’ last year. More here. The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Homeland Security will release two documents to [...]
