Cybersecurity

How Can a President's E-Mail Get Hacked?

A hacker known as Guccifer got into "at least six separate e-mail accounts" of Bush family members.

Emerging Tech

DNA Backlog Stymies Development of 'CSI'-like Inventions

Obligation to help crime labs relieve bottlenecks of untested samples eats up Justice’s resources.

Cybersecurity

Hack-jokester exposes Bush family personal emails

Government (U.S.) // Web Services

Cybersecurity

Crooks print $10 million ATM dollars by hacking Visa debit system

Financial Services // At least 12 unidentified countries; India

Cybersecurity

Prospects for Comprehensive Cyber Reform Are Questionable

Nonetheless, there is bipartisan agreement on the need for better information sharing about threats to critical networks.

Cybersecurity

NIST seeks comment on key cyber guide for agencies

Final public draft of 'Security and Privacy Controls' open for comment until March 1.

Cybersecurity

Is our view of cybersecurity too local?

Looking at other countries could provide useful insight to better shape agencies' own cyber strategies, report suggests.

Cybersecurity

Somebody hacked the Fed during the Super Bowl

During the hack, information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor product.

Cybersecurity

DOE data breach came after warnings

The Energy Department's IG had pointed out vulnerabilities in the agency's cybersecurity program just weeks before a successful cyberattack compromised confidential data.

Digital Government

North Korean video imagines what it would be like to wipe out a U.S. city

The rogue country has produced a propaganda film involving the rocket launch conducted in December.

Cybersecurity

Anons post banker credentials possibly stolen from the Fed's computers

Financial Services // Government (U.S.)

Cybersecurity

Energy Department hack looks like Chinese espionage

Government (U.S.) // Washington, DC, United States

Cybersecurity

Obama is now America’s hacker in chief

As the possibility of destructive cyberwarfare inches towards reality, the government is scrambling to figure out who holds the keys to America's malware arsenal.

Modernization

China may (or may not) be behind the Twitter hack

Twitter revealed that roughly a quarter million accounts have been compromised by hackers.

Modernization

Menu of safety-approved cloud products grows to three

CGI joins Autonomic Resources on the elite FedRAMP-authorized supplier list.

Cybersecurity

Defense positions a military cyber squad on DHS turf

Computer security experts react to Cyber Command proposal with optimism, blunted by reality that attacks are hard to foresee.

Cybersecurity

China hacked the Wall Street Journal, too

Hackers infiltrated the newspaper to monitor its coverage of China.