Competition pits college students against hackers
Cybersecurity students from eight universities will compete to defend a mock financial institution from attack.
TaintArtist promises to detect abusive phone apps
Rather than trying to screen apps for malware, researchers suggest it may be more effective to monitor the behavior of installed apps for signs of improper behavior.
How blockchain works
A blockchain-based system marries ironclad trust to a fully auditable sequence of digital events enclosed in a highly secure environment.
Secure code before or after sharing?
When agencies release code to open source, should they sanitize it before release or trust to the community to eventually secure it?
Open redirects persist on government sites
Spammers are taking advantage of misconfigured dot-gov domains and link shorteners to redirect visitors to other sites.
Security blindness: Too many alerts and too few resources
With today’s “assumption of compromise,” organizations need a unified, analytics-driven platform for end-to-end visibility across the enterprise.
The newest cyber risk: Hackers can hear what you're printing
Using only a smartphone, researchers were able to get enough information from signals created by a 3-D printer’s nozzle to reverse-engineer the object being manufactured.
Call for security science papers
The National Security Agency is taking nominations for its Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition.
Can we build quantum-resistant encryption?
New research demonstrating that quantum computing is now just an engineering challenge moves the possibility of encryption-cracking machines to the front burner.
Thwarting the threat actors: What government can do
While it is virtually impossible to know when cybercriminals will attack, taking certain preventative actions before an attack can certainly reduce the risk of damage.
How hackable are first responders' quadcopters?
A researcher presenting at the RSA Security Conference said he can hack and hijack a popular drone model via two separate system vulnerabilities.
Modernization projects, human error top IT security concerns
A survey of federal IT managers shows the biggest cybersecurity challenges agencies face.
Building a better (computer) brain for spotting cyberthreats
Lewis Rhodes Labs has a neuromorphic processor that increases the speed and resolution of anomaly detection by more than 100-fold
Navy budgets for cyber resiliency
According to recent budget documents, the Navy is asking for $88 million in research and development associated with cyber resiliency.
The tech that locks down ID cards
Whether the card allows for access into a government building or another country, new technologies are making it easier for officials to verify identities.
Feds want mobile security, except when they don’t
Conflicting messages over mobile devices security sow doubt and confusion.
DARPA looks to measure privacy protection
The research agency underwrites a project to help document a system's effectiveness at protecting user data.
'MouseJack' turns wireless mice, keyboards into liabilities
Peripherals that use unencrypted radio signals to communicate can create vulnerabilities for enterprises.
Governments lost 307 million records to breaches in 2015
A new study finds that public sector organizations in the United States are targets in a vast majority of attacks.
DOD looks to redefine roles for IT workforce
According to DOD Deputy CIO Richard Hale, the department is seeking to weave cybersecurity duties into virtually every job description.
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