Researchers have demonstrated a way to hide voice commands to smart phones so that humans cannot understand them. Who’s talking to your phone?
Although penetration testing might be viewed as one of the more glamorous jobs in cybersecurity – think of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible hacking into a CIA computer while dangling horizontally from cables in a heavily protected room – it might come…
In cybersecurity as in national security, remembrance and eternal vigilance are essential to maintaining our freedom.
The market for cyber insurance is growing, but this industry has not yet reached the critical mass needed to reform how we protect our information infrastructures.
Vulnerability management is an essential part of government cybersecurity. It requires not only continuous monitoring and visibility to spot vulnerabilities, but also the context needed to prioritize vulnerabilities based on risk so agencies can take effective action to eliminate, patch or mitigate.
NIST is asking industry to help develop a solution to help ensure the integrity of data after a breach or other incident. The effort is being undertaken at NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence.
Now two years old, the Cybersecurity Framework will get a few tweaks from NIST, but the community is generally happy with guidelines for securing the nation’s critical infrastructure. Information sharing remains a problem area, however.
Agencies are spending more than ever on maintaining legacy IT. But there was more smoke than fire at this week’s House committee hearing on legacy tech.
As the U.S. power grid becomes increasingly vulnerable to electromagnetic disruptions—both natural and manmade—the clock is ticking toward possibly catastrophic solar storms that some scientists say are inevitable.
Advances in quantum computing threaten the cryptographic systems now securing commercial and government communications. NIST is launching an effort to identify post-quantum algorithms that can resist this new paradigm.
