Top Defense Department officials are considering a proposal that would allow the U.S. Cyber Command to function as a unified combatant command as the military increases its use of cyberspace as a warfighting domain, Military
MoreThe Government Accountability Office has called on the Defense Department to revise its guidance in order to define the responsibilities of DoD components and other entities in providing support to civil agencies during cyber attacks.
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Hackers appear to have leaked the personal data of more than 49 million Turkish citizens online, The Register reported Monday. John Leyden writes the compromised database contains Turkish citizenship or residency information,
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U.K. Defense Secretary Michael Fallon has said his agency will spend approximately $57 million on a new cybersecurity center to be potentially located at the defense ministry’s Corsham office. The British defense ministry said
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Two component agencies of the Agriculture Department will implement commercial network security tools from a continuous diagnostic and mitigation program run by the Department of Homeland Security, Federal News Radio reported Monday.
MoreLt. Gen. Robert Ferrell, the Armyâs chief information officer, has released a document that aims to provide the service branch a strategic guide on how it will update its enterprise networks between 2025 and
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The State Department has discovered after an internal cyber defenses review discovered the agency’s Consular Consolidated Database could be compromised because of security gaps in the agency’s system, ABC News reported Thursday. Mike Levine and Justin
MorePresident Barack Obama has released a notice to extend for another year the national emergency he declared in April 2015 through an executive order to address the rising incidents of cyber attacks
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The Defense Department has partnered with San Francisco-based company HackerOne to carry out a “bug bounty” program that will involve vulnerability identification and analysis on public DoD websites over a 20-day period. DoD’s
MoreA new study by Tenable Network Security indicates a high level of confidence among organizations in the cybersecurity framework of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The NIST Cybersecurity Framework is the preferred
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