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IBM CEO Ginni Rometty has announced the company plans to establish a cybersecurity center in the country’s capital of Canberra, the Australian Financial Review reported Tuesday. Paul Smith writes Kevin Zuccato, former director of Australia’s High Tech Crime Centre, was appointed to lead IBM’s National Cyber Security Centre. The center will offer collaboration with security specialists and access to […] More
STG has received a contract modification worth $34 million from the U.S. Army to provide information technology support to the 2nd Regional Cyber Center Western Hemisphere at Ft. Huachuca in Arizona. The Defense Department said Monday that STG is expected to complete the services by June 2017. DoD added that the Army Contracting Command had obligated […] More
A Kaspersky Lab report says the total number of people who experienced ransomware-related attacks worldwide between April 2015 and March 2016 climbed by 17.7 percent compared to the same period of the previous year. The company said Wednesday the percentage of users who encountered ransomware more than once reached 4.34 percent in the 2015-2016 period, up from 3.63 […] More
The U.K.’s ministry of defense and IBM have unveiled the Defense Cyber Aptitude Test assessment service during the IBM HR Summit 2016, the Recruiter reported Thursday. Recruiter writes that DCAT is designed to check a military service member’s potential to work in cyberspace-related fields by determining behavioral characteristics and testing attention to detail, numerical and verbal skills and ability to […] More
Intel, Samsung have launched an interactive dialogue that seeks to convene technology industry stakeholders to develop Internet of Things policy recommendations for U.S. lawmakers. Samsung said Wednesday the National IoT Strategy Dialogue was created in response to technology leaders’ call for a forum that can help industry and Congress to realize the potential advantages of IoT technology for the economy and society. The Information […] More
Raytheon plans to recruit more than 140 employees in Pensacola, Florida, under a $1 billion cyber system support contract with the Department of Homeland Security, The Pulse reported Friday. Raytheon will conduct an open house in Pensacola to look for cybersecurity professionals, information technicians and systems engineers in support of the contract, Drew Buchanan writes. […] More
A threat intelligence team at Palo Alto Networks has found that a cyber espionage group has launched a new spear phishing attack against the U.S. government. The company said Tuesday its Unit 42 discovered that the Sofacy threat group, also called APT28, used a compromised email account linked to a foreign affairs ministry of another country […] More
Federal agencies should include concepts and changes in technology surrounding the Internet of Things as they work to secure mobile devices inside their networks, Microsoft‘s Susie Adams told MeriTalk in an interview published Monday. Adams, federal chief technology officer for the software giant, said the mindset of federal agencies should be to have a network of secure […] More
A new study carried out by IBM and the Ponemon Institute has reported the average cost of data breaches per company has risen 29 percent since 2013 to $4 million. IBM said Wednesday the annual Cost of a Data Breach study found security incidents in 2015 rose 64 percent from the prior year due to growth of threats in terms of volume […] More
A study conducted by EMC‘s security division RSA has found 75 percent of 878 respondent organizations across more than 24 industries worldwide believe they face a “significant” risk of exposure to cyber threats. RSA said Tuesday its second annual Cybersecurity Poverty Index study offered participants from 81 countries an opportunity to self-assess the maturity of their cybersecurity programs against a framework developed by […] More
General Dynamics has installed and tested two beam waveguide antennas to support NASA‘s modernization efforts for the agency’s Deep Space Network. The company said Tuesday its satellite communications technologies team installed the 34-meter antennas near Canberra, Australia to aid communications and tracking of Mars space probes and spacecraft missions outside the Milky Way. “Each antenna is the width of […] More
Cisco has invested $10 million toward its two-year Global Cybersecurity Scholarship program the company started to address what it estimates as a projected global shortage of 2 million cybersecurity professionals by 2019. The company said Tuesday it will also integrate a new Cyber Ops Certification to its current certification portfolio and update its CCIE security certification to address new skills and education that […] More
