Cybereye

The United States is capable of wonderful innovation and spectacular achievements, from highway systems to fleets of satellites. But a lack of appetite for maintaining these accomplishments threatens our security and well-being.

Antivirus company Avira reports a new wrinkle in malware: A phishing e-mail that contains explicit instructions for infecting your computer. It’s so crazy, it just might work.

Agencies are getting more and better technology, but IT is not providing the productivity and return that it could. Federal customers need to partner with vendors to focus on mission and outcome for IT, not just functionality and affordability.

While the Justice Department is trying to get backdoors into mobile consumer devices, NIST is working to improve security and privacy of electronic medical records and devices.

Cybersecurity has a high profile in the president’s agenda for his final year. There are some good ideas in his Cybersecurity National Action Plan, but whether they translate into improved security will depend on Congress and the next president.

DHS plans to begin an automated threat information sharing program for the private sector this month. Not everyone is enthusiastic, but some think the department can be a catalyst for improved cybersecurity collaboration.

The FCC has proposed new rules that could streamline and expand the nation’s Emergency Alert System, but one commissioner calls the proposed changes a power grab to expand the commission’s authority to the Internet.

Malware for stealing out-of-band passwords for two-factor authentication demonstrates the need to maintain good security on mobile devices.

A sophisticated campaign using SQL Injection for Search Engine Optimization has been spotted by Akamai’s Threat Research Division, raising some questions about what is legitimate and what is proper.

A new multi-institutional project funded by NSF aims to bring software development from an art to a science, using formal logic and precise specifications for program behavior to create software that is verifiably reliable.