REPORTS...: April 2010 Archives

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommended that the White House do more to define roles and responsibilities under the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) and to set up measures for the effectiveness of cybersecurity activities.

Without such measures, federal agencies have continued to pursue separate cybersecurity projects with no true sense of how they are supporting the CNCI, GAO warned in a report, Cybersecurity: Progress Made but Challenges Remain in Defining and Coordinating the Comprehensive National Initiative.  READ MORE

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Foreign nations are increasingly exploiting the Internet, including social network sites, to conduct industrial espionage against Defense Department contractors, according to a recently released government report.  READ MORE

REPORT - Targeting U.S. Technologies: A Trend Analysis of Reporting from Defense Industry



RELATED:  Shadows in the Cloud: An investigation into cyber espionage 2.0

A recent report by the Information Warfare Monitor and Shadowserver Foundation says a cyber-spy system systematically targeted and compromised computer systems in India, the Offices of the Dalai Lama, the United Nations, and several other countries.  The report further states that these activities have been pilfering highly classified and other sensitive documents related to missile systems, the movement of military forces and relations among countries.  READ MORE

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RELATED:  Cyberattack Concerns High

Nearly three-quarters of the respondents to a survey of respondents who work in national defense and security departments or agencies also said the possibility is "high" for a cyberattack by a foreign nation in the next year.  READ MORE

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