The Air Force Space Command‘s Cyberspace Vulnerability Assessment/Hunter weapon system has reached full operational capability status on Feb. 12.

AFSPC said Friday the status makes CVA/H capable of serving as the primary enclave defense tool for the Air Force Information Network.

CVA/H works to assess vulnerability, detect threats and evaluate compliance through its four primary components: the Mobile Interceptor Platform, the Deployable Interceptor Platform, the Garrison Interceptor Platform and the Information Operations Platform-Fly Away Kit.

Brigadier General Stephen Whiting, AFSPC director of integrated air, space, cyberspace and ISR operations, signed off the FOC status and said CVA/H aims to give the service branch the “ability to fly, fight and win in air, space and cyberspace.”

The cyber threat detection system will be used by Cyber Protection Teams under U.S. Cyber Command.

CVA/H was officially classified as a weapon system by the Air Force Chief of Staff in March 2013 and reached Initial Operational Capability in June 2013.

AFSPC added the cyber defense tool was labeled as a “weapon system” to be considered equally for program-associated funding but it does not function as a weapon by the definition of the Air Force and the Defense Department.

The Department of Homeland Security plans to give the public access to an online repository of location data about government facilities, power plants, mining sites, school buildings and other critical infrastructure assets in the U.S., Fedscoop reported Friday.

Grayson Ullman writes the DHS will open up 250 geospatial datasets catalogued by the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data working group in an effort to help organizations and citizens prepare for attacks.

The geodata will be available for download via the HIFLD Open Data website, Ullman reports.

DHS and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have produced more than 500 datasets under the HIFLD program with Esri‘s cloud-based mapping technology ArcGIS, the report said.

The Treasury Department‘s inspector general for tax administration has identified an additional 390,000 taxpayer accounts that were potentially affected by a security breach on the Internal Revenue Service‘s Get Transcript online database last year.

TIGTA also found hackers attempted to access the tax return transcripts of another 295,000 people during a further breach investigation that lasted for nine months, IRS said Friday.

The agency halted operations of its Get Transcript application since it discovered the hack in May last year and will send notification mails to the 685,000 individuals beginning Monday.

“IRS is committed to protecting taxpayers on multiple fronts against tax-related identity theft, and these mailings are part of that effort,” noted John Koskinen, commissioner of the IRS.

Individuals whose data were compromised in the agency hack are eligible to receive a one-year identity theft protection service from Equifax.

The agency initially found 334,000 tax return transcripts were accessed by hackers and 281,000 were targeted but not accessed.

The Health Information Trust Alliance has issued a document meant to guide healthcare organizations on how to implement the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s cybersecurity framework.

HITRUST consulted the Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council and Government Coordinating Council to develop the guide, the American Hospital Association said Thursday.

The Department of Homeland Security’s critical infrastructure cyber community and other stakeholders also provided input for the document.

HITRUST said the goal is to help organizations bolster their cyber resiliency and engage with existing information security and privacy practices.