Tom Donilon, President Barack Obama’s former national security adviser, has been named chairman of the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, The Hill reported Wednesday. Jordan Fabian and Cory Bennett write Sam Palmisano,
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CIA Director John Brennan has told CBS News in an interview that cyberspace offers a path for U.S. adversaries to attack critical infrastructure such as transportation and financial systems. He said to reporter Scott Pelley in
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Jeh Johnson, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, has said that DHS will be involved in every initiative of the Cybersecurity National Action Plan that President Barack Obama introduced on Feb. 9,
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Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson has said he wants the U.S. Navy‘s future warships to have a modular system design and technology that can support cyber and electronic warfare operations,
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A documentary film called “Zero Days” claims that the U.S. has devised a contingency plan to disable Iranian nuclear infrastructure with offensive cyber tools on short notice, Buzz Feed reported Tuesday. James
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A team of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency researchers has flown a new multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle to gather data about its capabilities as part of the agency’s Fast Lightweight Autonomy program. DARPA said Friday it
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Joint Polar Satellite System nears its launch after the integration of the fifth and final instrument – Northrop Grumman’s Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder. NOAA said Thursday JPSS-1 moves
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The first responders group inside the Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate has launched a project that works to share encrypted data and live videos with public safety personnel through public television
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White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel has said he believes the Einstein tool that works to detect and monitor network vulnerabilities is still a “very credible and solid piece†of the federal
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A new report by IDC Government Insights predicts overall agency spend on cloud computing technologies for fiscal year 2016 will represent 8.5 percent of the federal government’s overall information technology budget. That figure represents an increase from the 5-percent
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