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Cisco‘s Talos threat intelligence team has discovered a malicious campaign by a suspected Russian hacking group that targeted prospective attendees of a cyber conflict and security conference to be held in the U.S. from Nov. 7 to 8. Researchers from Cisco Talos said in a blog post published Sunday that the …

Michelle Lee has resigned from her role as director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office after a five-year career at the agency, Reuters reported Tuesday. Former President Barack Obama nominated Lee for the USPTO leadership position in 2014 and the Senate confirmed her nomination in March 2015. Lee previously held the roles of interim …

Butch Luckie, chief of information technology business analytics at the U.S. Air Force, has said the service branch has achieved nearly 17 percent reduction in the service branch’s IT budget of more than $3.9 billion during the past two years. Luckie told Federal News Radio in an interview published Thursday that figure represents …

Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has said he met with executives at tech companies such as Intel, Oracle, Cisco and Facebook to seek comments on his plan to overturn certain aspects of “net neutrality” rules, The New York Times reported Thursday. Cecilia Kang writes Pai said Thursday in a …

The hacker group called “Shadow Brokers” has released documents that it says describe National Security Agency techniques to exploit commercially available software in order to access the SWIFT money-transfer system, Reuters reported Sunday. Clare Baldwin and Joseph Menn write that Comae Technologies Founder Matt Suiche indicated in the company’s analysis of the documents that NSA …

An FBI-led investigation says that a breach that resulted in the theft of hacking tools used by the National Security Agency might be linked to one of the employees or contractors at the NSA who inadvertently left such tools on a remote computer, Reuters reported Thursday. Joseph Menn and John Walcott write that four …

Patty Hatter, Intel‘s security group professional services business unit vice president and general manager, will join the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board on a four-year term. NIST said Tuesday the 20-year leadership veteran will fill a role under the membership category defined in the ISPAB charter as four members from …

A hacker group known as “Shadow Brokers” plans to auction off files it claims it has stolen from the computer systems of “Equation Group” cyber spies linked with the National Security Agency, Wired reported Monday. Andy Greenberg writes that Shadow Brokers released an encrypted file that has a decryption key offered for sale in …

The Defense Department looks to address challenges on network segmentation and update previous enforcement strategies that use access control lists on enclave firewalls of routers, a blog entry posted on the Cisco website said Wednesday. Michael Overstreet, DoD security systems engineering manager, said that the agency has released guidelines on how to process …

Kapil Bakshi, a systems engineer at Cisco, wrote in a guest piece published Wednesday on Nextgov that federal CIOs should focus efforts on technology areas that work to support government digitization and CIO empowerment. “[Government] CIOs need to think strategically about the mission and role of the IT department to …