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Chicago Colleges to Host First Federal-Style Cyber Training
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office says the city’s community colleges will be the first in the nation to offer cybersecurity training modeled after federal government programs.
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Researcher IDs Author of Massive Mirai Botnet Code
In what must be a somewhat gratifying act of revenge, cybersecurity researcher Brian Krebs identified the real-life identity of the author of the infamous Mirai code, who went by the name Anna-Senpai. In a lengthy piece on his blog, KrebsOnSecurity, Krebs unpacks how he discovered the author of the code, as well as at least…
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Obama cuts Chelsea Manning’s sentence, pardons Stuxnet leaker
President Barack Obama is commuting the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who leaked classified documents, and is pardoning 64 people, including retired Gen. James Cartwright.
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Faulty attribution is worse than none at all [Commentary]
Recognizing we are in a new era of “Cyber” Cold War, accurately assigning attribution to cyber events will be paramount to stave off nation-state attacks against our companies, our government, our allies and our freedoms as we know it.
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NIST publishes version 1.1 of Cybersecurity Framework
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released refinements, clarifications and enhancements to its “Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity” and now seeks feedback.
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Hub for Cyber Command Defensive Ops Fully Operational by 2018
The defensive operational arm of Cyber Command – Joint Force Headquarters-DoDIN – is slated for full operational capability for the beginning of 2018. Brig. Gen. Robert Skinner, deputy commander of JFHQ-DoDIN told C4ISRNET that Cyber Command Chief Admiral Mike Rogers set a Jan. 1 target for full operational capability. Skinner noted during a Jan. 15…
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Marines Study Sci-Fi to Plan for Future Battlefield Needs
The Marine Corps is turning to science fiction and short stories to help forecast future operating concepts in an increasingly complex world. A Science Fiction Futures Workshop held at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory resulted in three realistic short stories based on the memo “Marine Corps Security Environment Forecast: Futures 2030-2045” (MCSEF), known as the…
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State Election Systems to Get More Federal Aid for Security
Citing increasingly sophisticated bad actors in cyberspace and an election infrastructure that’s “vital to our national interests,” Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is designating U.S. election systems as critical infrastructure, a move that provides more federal help for state and local governments to keep their election systems safe from tampering. “Given the vital role elections…
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Putin Ordered Influence Operation Against US, Says Report
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence Friday afternoon released a highly anticipated unclassified version of a “highly classified” assessment detailing Russian activities as they relate to the election-related hacking, finding Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the incursion and describing it as an “influence operation,” the “boldest yet in the U.S.” The report was…
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New OPM guidance updates IT, cyber job coding
New three-digit codes will help agencies identify and address the recruitment, training, development and skills needed for critical, cyber-related functions.
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Chicago Colleges to Host First Federal-Style Cyber Training
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office says the city’s community colleges will be the first in the nation to offer cybersecurity training modeled after federal government programs.
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Researcher IDs Author of Massive Mirai Botnet Code
In what must be a somewhat gratifying act of revenge, cybersecurity researcher Brian Krebs identified the real-life identity of the author of the infamous Mirai code, who went by the name Anna-Senpai. In a lengthy piece on his blog, KrebsOnSecurity, Krebs unpacks how he discovered the author of the code, as well as at least…
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Obama cuts Chelsea Manning’s sentence, pardons Stuxnet leaker
President Barack Obama is commuting the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who leaked classified documents, and is pardoning 64 people, including retired Gen. James Cartwright.
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Faulty attribution is worse than none at all [Commentary]
Recognizing we are in a new era of “Cyber” Cold War, accurately assigning attribution to cyber events will be paramount to stave off nation-state attacks against our companies, our government, our allies and our freedoms as we know it.
-
NIST publishes version 1.1 of Cybersecurity Framework
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released refinements, clarifications and enhancements to its “Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity” and now seeks feedback.
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Hub for Cyber Command Defensive Ops Fully Operational by 2018
The defensive operational arm of Cyber Command – Joint Force Headquarters-DoDIN – is slated for full operational capability for the beginning of 2018. Brig. Gen. Robert Skinner, deputy commander of JFHQ-DoDIN told C4ISRNET that Cyber Command Chief Admiral Mike Rogers set a Jan. 1 target for full operational capability. Skinner noted during a Jan. 15…
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Marines Study Sci-Fi to Plan for Future Battlefield Needs
The Marine Corps is turning to science fiction and short stories to help forecast future operating concepts in an increasingly complex world. A Science Fiction Futures Workshop held at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory resulted in three realistic short stories based on the memo “Marine Corps Security Environment Forecast: Futures 2030-2045” (MCSEF), known as the…
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State Election Systems to Get More Federal Aid for Security
Citing increasingly sophisticated bad actors in cyberspace and an election infrastructure that’s “vital to our national interests,” Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is designating U.S. election systems as critical infrastructure, a move that provides more federal help for state and local governments to keep their election systems safe from tampering. “Given the vital role elections…
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Putin Ordered Influence Operation Against US, Says Report
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence Friday afternoon released a highly anticipated unclassified version of a “highly classified” assessment detailing Russian activities as they relate to the election-related hacking, finding Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the incursion and describing it as an “influence operation,” the “boldest yet in the U.S.” The report was…
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New OPM guidance updates IT, cyber job coding
New three-digit codes will help agencies identify and address the recruitment, training, development and skills needed for critical, cyber-related functions.
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Chicago Colleges to Host First Federal-Style Cyber Training
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office says the city’s community colleges will be the first in the nation to offer cybersecurity training modeled after federal government programs.
-
Researcher IDs Author of Massive Mirai Botnet Code
In what must be a somewhat gratifying act of revenge, cybersecurity researcher Brian Krebs identified the real-life identity of the author of the infamous Mirai code, who went by the name Anna-Senpai. In a lengthy piece on his blog, KrebsOnSecurity, Krebs unpacks how he discovered the author of the code, as well as at least…
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Obama cuts Chelsea Manning’s sentence, pardons Stuxnet leaker
President Barack Obama is commuting the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who leaked classified documents, and is pardoning 64 people, including retired Gen. James Cartwright.
-
![Faulty attribution is worse than none at all [Commentary]](https://one.sightlinemg.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/anup-ghosh.jpg.jpg?w=1024)
Faulty attribution is worse than none at all [Commentary]
Recognizing we are in a new era of “Cyber” Cold War, accurately assigning attribution to cyber events will be paramount to stave off nation-state attacks against our companies, our government, our allies and our freedoms as we know it.
-
NIST publishes version 1.1 of Cybersecurity Framework
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released refinements, clarifications and enhancements to its “Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity” and now seeks feedback.
-
Hub for Cyber Command Defensive Ops Fully Operational by 2018
The defensive operational arm of Cyber Command – Joint Force Headquarters-DoDIN – is slated for full operational capability for the beginning of 2018. Brig. Gen. Robert Skinner, deputy commander of JFHQ-DoDIN told C4ISRNET that Cyber Command Chief Admiral Mike Rogers set a Jan. 1 target for full operational capability. Skinner noted during a Jan. 15…
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Marines Study Sci-Fi to Plan for Future Battlefield Needs
The Marine Corps is turning to science fiction and short stories to help forecast future operating concepts in an increasingly complex world. A Science Fiction Futures Workshop held at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory resulted in three realistic short stories based on the memo “Marine Corps Security Environment Forecast: Futures 2030-2045” (MCSEF), known as the…
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State Election Systems to Get More Federal Aid for Security
Citing increasingly sophisticated bad actors in cyberspace and an election infrastructure that’s “vital to our national interests,” Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is designating U.S. election systems as critical infrastructure, a move that provides more federal help for state and local governments to keep their election systems safe from tampering. “Given the vital role elections…
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Putin Ordered Influence Operation Against US, Says Report
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence Friday afternoon released a highly anticipated unclassified version of a “highly classified” assessment detailing Russian activities as they relate to the election-related hacking, finding Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the incursion and describing it as an “influence operation,” the “boldest yet in the U.S.” The report was…
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New OPM guidance updates IT, cyber job coding
New three-digit codes will help agencies identify and address the recruitment, training, development and skills needed for critical, cyber-related functions.
