US Cyber Wargame Held Today in DC
Today, the Bipartisan Policy Center hosted a mock cyber attack called Cyber ShockWave, simulating a meeting with the National Security Council (Michael Chertoff played the chairman of the NSC) and how it would respond to a major attack.
The attack simulated a widespread attack, infecting telecommunications and IT infrastructure throughout the US. The simulated attack was [...]
Melissa Hathaway Given Award for Efforts to Advance Cyber Security
According to an article on The New New Internet, Melissa Hathaway was awarded the Dave McCurdy Internet Security Award by the Internet Security Alliance yesterday. The awarded was granted in recognition of Hathaway’s contributions to cyber security, particularly through her work on the Cyberspace Policy Review and her subsequent efforts.
Michael Hickey, the 1st Vice Chair [...]
Lockheed Looks to Boost Cyber Security Team
Lockheed Martin has announced the development of a variety of measures to boost its cyber security team. The steps taken will include: implementation of a Cyber University; university recruiting; cyber career paths; mentoring; knowledge transfer and competitive compensation. Also, new academic graduate scholarships have recently been awarded to students from Carnegie Melon University, Purdue University [...]
Lockheed Martin Creates Work Station for FBI
Next Generation Identification, a Lockheed Martin led team, successfully delivered the first Advanced Technology Workstation (ATWs) for the FBI’s new biometrics system. The new workstations will be replacing the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), improving the ability of the FBI analysts and providers.
“The current IAFIS receives an average of 160,000 fingerprint transactions per day, [...]
QinetiQ To Hold Cyber Safety Training Session
QinetiQ North America announced today that it will offer the training seminar, “Cyber Safety 101: An Introduction to Cyber Threats and Internet Risks” to employees. The half-day course will be conducted by QinetiQ’s Cyveillance business unit and will be held on January 19th at QinetiQ’s Reston, Virginia facility. The session will help QinetiQ workers serve as [...]
Cyber Report- US Employs Cyber Attacks Too
A number of foreign countries have been implicated in conducting cyber attacks in the past few years, including China and Russia (though it is unclear if it is government entities or individuals). In a recent article in The National Journal, Shane Harris reports that the United States has also conducted offensive cyber attacks against insurgents [...]
Cyber Report - How Involved is China in Recent Cyber Attacks?
Most cyber security experts, in the private sector and in government throughout the United States, believe that the Chinese are one of the largest practitioners of cyber attacks against US networks. The Chinese are accused of using cyberspace to conduct espionage and prepare for possible future conflicts with the US.
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Cyber Report - The New New Internet’s Latest White Paper: “Top Cyber Threats to Government Contractors”
Download the free white paper here.
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M&A Activity - Veritas Analytics Acquired By Camber Corporation
Sterling, Virginia-based cyber security firm Veritas Analytics has been acquired by the Camber Corporation, headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama. Terms of the agreement have yet to be released but the news comes just after Camber Corporation recently acquired the intelligence analysis firm i2S from Columbia, Maryland…
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Contract Award - Global Telecom & Technology - SPT Portuguese Television
Global Telecom & Technology, Inc. (”GTT”) (OTCBB:GTLT) has announced that SPT Portuguese Television (SPT), a U.S. based distributor of Portuguese television, has selected GTT for wide-area network services to strengthen its broadcast transport backbone. SPT has purchased point to point private line services to in support of their broadcasts in U.S. and Canadian markets.
Alberto M. [...]
