Cybersecurity
A Russian Cosmonaut Accidentally Infected the ISS with Stuxnet
Russian security expert Eugene Kaspersky says that the virus was installed through a USB stick.
Modernization
With BlackBerry's Future Uncertain, Pentagon Readies a Contingency Plan
The company makes the only devices yet approved to operate on Defense networks, but that could soon change.
Cybersecurity
Bitcoin storage service shortchanged $1.2 million by hackers
Financial Services // Australia
Cybersecurity
Snowden Convinced Colleagues to Give Him Their Passwords
About two dozen employees willingly handed over their login credentials.
Cybersecurity
Tainted Thumb Drives at the G20 Summit; Pocketed Medical Records in Atlanta
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Cybersecurity
White House's $14 Billion Cyber Spending Claim Is Squishy
The administration's 2014 governmentwide computer security budget has two line items -- cyber IT and cyber non-IT activities -- neither of which has a dollar figure attached.
Cybersecurity
White House considers ending dual NSA, Cyber Command leadership
After Gen. Keith Alexander retires next year, the leadership of the two organizations could fall to two people.
Cybersecurity
Pondering the pros and cons of an ID hub
A single federated ID would make tracking, verifying and authenticating identities easier, but it also could make the public nervous, said some IT managers participating in the hub project.
Cybersecurity
Big Data Is a Good Place for Hackers to Hide
In five to 10 years, expect attackers to game threat-detection analytics by creating bogus malicious activity.
Modernization
CIA-backed Cloud Security Firm Buys Encryption Company to Help Spy-Wary Industry
To address corporate concerns about storing information at data centers accessible by intelligence agencies, HyTrust acquires HighCloud.
Cybersecurity
A wrong number sends doc’s patient files to Canadian homeowner
Healthcare and Public Health // Saskatchewan, Canada
Cybersecurity
After breach at customer loyalty service, deal winners might lose money
Hospitality // Ireland
Cybersecurity
Independent board preparing NSA recommendations
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has completed its investigation and is readying its report.
Cybersecurity
Google Engineers Blast NSA With F-bombs, Righteous Outrage and Lord of the Rings Analogies
A little harsher than the corporate line.
Cybersecurity
FBI Puts a $100,000 Bounty on Most-Wanted Cyber Criminal
As part of worldwide crackdown, feds add five more fugitive hackers to the list.
Cybersecurity
NIST to review cryptographic standards development process
Following the revelation of efforts by the National Security Agency to subvert NIST's work in developing cryptography standards, NIST will reconsider its methods and review its older work.
Cybersecurity
Hagel to target cyber in quadrennial review
Defense Secretary: Terror threat has 'metastasized,' spreading to technologies where the U.S. previously enjoyed a strategic advantage.
Cybersecurity
IG: Government Has No Digital Cyber Warning System
Agencies are unable to quickly alert and instruct potential victims, report finds.
Cybersecurity