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Android mobile security apps: From the effective to the scam-like

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Just under a quarter of mobile security applications for Android phones successfully blocked every one of last year’s top malware threats, but almost a third of the apps failed to stop any, and user-ratings were no guide to effectiveness, according to new test data. Anti-Virus Comparative, an independent testing lab based in the Austrian ski-resort town of Innsbruck, […]

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Google publishes remote code vulnerability in Microsoft browsers

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Google’s Project Zero published an unpatched and very severe vulnerability in the Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer version 11 browsers Monday, after a 90-day deadline expired without a fix from Microsoft’s engineers. The publication, which means hackers will be able to write exploits for the affected software, appears to be the latest result of Microsoft’s shocking and still mysterious decision […]

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Testing finds ‘100 percent’ of mobile banking apps hackable

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Mobile banking applications produced by 50 of the world’s largest 100 banks were all vulnerable to hacking attacks which could allow password capture or surveillance of users, according to new research from a European mobile security outfit. “We didn’t initially plan to publish the results of our tests,” Caroline Borriello, chief operating officer of Paris-based Pradeo […]

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GSA tech chief defends 18F, says watchdog’s report ‘got our attention’

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The head of the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Service is speaking up for 18F — the agency’s under-fire IT swat team — and vowing to change the cybersecurity rules that a watchdog accused 18F of ignoring. TTS Commissioner Rob Cook told CyberScoop that GSA was working to overhaul the IT security rules that 18F’s leadership flouted. “We will be […]

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Experts: Trump to follow Obama’s lead on cyber policy

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In cybersecurity policy, if in nothing else, there is likely to be a great deal of continuity between the Trump presidency and its predecessor, scholars and executives said Wednesday — seizing in particular on a renewed push for federal IT modernization expected from the incoming administration. “What you see in the draft [executive order on cybersecurity the administration has […]

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DHS funding new round of IoT cyber startups with $1M award

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The Department of Homeland Security has dished out nearly $1 million in competitive awards to five startups developing cybersecurity technologies for the Internet of Things. The five companies are getting the money as they advance to phase two of the Silicon Valley Innovation Program, or SVIP, run by the Cybersecurity Division of the Science and Technology Directorate. The […]

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Watchdog: Federal agency 18F ignored IT regulations, cybersecurity rules

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The Obama administration’s elite IT swat team 18F ran roughshod last year over cybersecurity rules set by the General Services Administration CIO and other officials, according to an audit report Tuesday from the agency’s internal watchdog. “Management failures in GSA IT and 18F caused a breakdown in compliance with GSA information technology security requirements,” reads the audit by […]

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NATO expert: Russians have it right — it’s information security not cyber

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In international discussions about cybersecurity, there’s a long-recognized disconnect on vocabulary: The U.S. and its Western allies conceive of cybersecurity as a technical issue — the protection of software against malicious code. Russian officials talk about information security, and it’s a much broader concept of ensuring the integrity of their political and social structures by controlling the […]

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J. Michael Daniel, Obama’s cybersecurity czar, to head industry nonprofit

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J. Michael Daniel, the career federal official who served as White House cybersecurity coordinator under President Barack Obama, will helm a nonprofit alliance founded by cybersecurity giants to better share information about cybercrime and other threats. The Cyber Threat Alliance announced the appointment in a press release Tuesday. The group also announced that it was […]

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Bush’s federal IT chief hopes for role in Trump administration

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Karen Evans, the former head of federal IT under President George W. Bush, told CyberScoop she hopes to serve in the current administration. “I would be honored if the Trump administration asked me to come in and work on our nation’s problems,” she said in an interview on the sidelines of the RSA security conference Tuesday. She added […]

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