Cyber

Paul Tortora, director of the U.S. Naval Academy’s Center for Cyber Security Studies, discusses cyber education.

In matters of cybersecurity, these professionals offer expertise and resources that could directly help agencies from becoming the latest victim.

Defense ISR company Polaris Alpha has acquired Intelesys Corporation, which provides technology for the U.S. intelligence community. “Since it was founded in 2004 by Geoffrey Bloom, John Szakmeister and Chris Lewis, Intelesys has played a critical role for the United States Intelligence Community’s mission critical cyber operations,” a Polaris Alpha news release said. “The company…

The draft executive order provides a three-pronged approach toward addressing cyberspace in the form of reviews, plus an additional report on how to encourage cybersecurity in the private sector.

Social Security numbers and tax documents for 1,400 employees at a Gillette hospital have been released through an email scam.

Multiple Twitter accounts for the Trump administration, including the official @POTUS, @VP and @FLOTUS accounts, recently exhibited various ill-managed basic security settings needing to be updated, according to a hacker able to recover email addresses associated with the accounts.

As a new presidential administration takes over, it will need to pay significant attention to cybersecurity.

A new report from the Identify Theft Resource Center and CyberScout details increases in hacking, skimming and phishing attempts across business and government sectors and the resulting personally identifiable information exposed by the breaches.

These false expectations could damage the credibility of the U.S. intelligence community and its ability to fulfill its mission.

Kaspersky Lab on Wednesday confirmed reports that Ruslan Stoyanov, head of its computer incidents investigations unit, was arrested in December.