Tag Archives: Cyberdefense and Information Assurance

NIST puts head into cloud computing

FCW reports that NIST is assembling a cloud computing team to develop ways to assess the security of applications built with a cloud computing architecture. “The team will give our customers a sense of what kinds of risks they may be taking on by moving into that new territory,” [Ron Ross, a senior computer scientist and [...]
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Los Alamos: Spanish for “We lost more computers”

From Los Alamos National Laboratory reportedly missing 80 computers – Related Stories – SNM SmartBrief: “Because the losses were considered a ‘property management issue’, the “cyber security issues were not engaged in a timely manner.’” The Department of Energy cares about security. Really they do. They just don’t engage the issues in [...]
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Los Alamos: Spanish for "We lost more computers"

From Los Alamos National Laboratory reportedly missing 80 computers – Related Stories – SNM SmartBrief: “Because the losses were considered a ‘property management issue’, the “cyber security issues were not engaged in a timely manner.’” The Department of Energy cares about security. Really they do. They just don’t engage the issues in [...]
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tweet! You’ve been h4×0r3d.

The Rat is a relatively recent convert to Twitter, by his own admission. Mostly, it was because “What are you doing?” question that the service asks its users to answer over and over and over again each day consistently provoked the same response from him: “None of your @#$%%^! business!” But since his recent [...]
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tweet! You've been h4×0r3d.

The Rat is a relatively recent convert to Twitter, by his own admission. Mostly, it was because “What are you doing?” question that the service asks its users to answer over and over and over again each day consistently provoked the same response from him: “None of your @#$%%^! business!” But since his recent [...]
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First things first — let’s make it a holiday

Congress passed a resolution yesterday making this coming Friday “National Data Privacy Day.” If the move, intended to raise awareness of data privacy issues at a national level, seems a little last-minute –which is somehow appropriate, considering how data privacy, while a major regulatory issue, often is addressed as an afterthought. I think we need [...]
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First things first — let's make it a holiday

Congress passed a resolution yesterday making this coming Friday “National Data Privacy Day.” If the move, intended to raise awareness of data privacy issues at a national level, seems a little last-minute –which is somehow appropriate, considering how data privacy, while a major regulatory issue, often is addressed as an afterthought. I think we need [...]
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