The National Security Agency (NSA) has warned about risks posed by obsolete encryption protocols and offered a cybersecurity information sheet for identifying and replacing outdated Transport Layer Security or Secure Sockets Layer configurations that could be used for decryption and exploitation of sensitive data.
Read More »Maxar Commends Senate Commerce Committee’s Passage of NASA Authorization Act of 2019; Dan Jablonsky Quoted
Maxar Technologies has commended the Senate Commerce Committee’s passage of the 2019 NASA Authorization Act that was introduced by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Maxar announced on Thursday.
Read More »Maxar Technologies, Australian Space Agency Sign Cooperative Agreement; Dan Jablonsky Quoted
Maxar Technologies has signed a joint statement of strategic intent and cooperation with the Australian Space Agency, Maxar announced on Wednesday.
Read More »Maxar Delivers Robotic Arm for NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover; Megan Fitzgerald Quoted
Maxar Technologies announced on Tuesday that the company has delivered the robotic Sample Handling Assembly (SHA) for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover. The SHA will process and store samples acquired from the Martian surface.
Read More »ITIF: 91% of Popular Federal Sites Fail to Perform Well in Terms of Speed, Mobile Friendliness
A new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has found that approximately 91 percent of most popular U.S. federal websites did not fare well on at least one of the metrics for page-load speed, accessibility, mobile friendliness and security. ITIF said Monday it examined 469 federal websites for the Benchmarking U.S. Government Websites report’s …
Read More »NASA Advances Metal Asteroid Mission Launch Schedule by 1 Year
NASA has moved from 2023 to the summer of 2022 the launch of a robotic space mission that seeks to explore a metal asteroid called 16 Psyche and investigate its formation and surface. The change in schedule will make the launch of the Psyche mission a year earlier than planned …
Read More »ITIF: 92% of Top Federal Websites Fail to Meet Security, Speed, Accessibility Standards
A new study from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation says 92 percent of the U.S. federal government’s most popular websites do not meet basic standards for security, speed, mobile friendliness or accessibility. ITIF said Wednesday it analyzed 297 U.S. government websites in the top 1 million websites worldwide and assessed …
Read More »Google Acquires Skybox Imaging for $500 Million
In a statement issued yesterday, Google said has picked up Skybox Imaging for $500 million. “Skybox and Google share more than just a zip code,” says the Skybox team. “We both believe in making information, especially accurate geospatial information, accessible and useful. And to do this we’re both willing to …
Read More »DHS’ Larry Zelvin: Cyber Team Reduced ‘Heartbleed’ Impact on Gov’t Domain
Larry Zelvin, director of the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center for the Department of Homeland Security, has said the “Heartbleed” encryption flaw had minimal impact on the federal government domain, FierceGovernmentIT reported Thursday. Molly Bernhart Walker writes a team worked for 20 days to respond to the secure-sockets layer encryption …
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