DOJ sues Georgia Tech over allegedly failing to meet cyber requirements for DOD contracts

The suit relies on a Civil War-era law that DOJ has increasingly turned to for cyber cases.

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ZipRecruiter vs Indeed: Comparing job posting platforms

Looking for the best job posting platform? Compare features and pricing for ZipRecruiter and Indeed to find the right fit for your business.
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Fed contractors aren’t using DMARC, new study finds

Just one of the 50 biggest federal IT contractors have adopted an important email security measure to guard against phishing, according to a new study. The Global Cyber Alliance’s (GCA) survey of the who’s who of Beltway contractors, including Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton, and AT&T, found that all but one – analytics firm Engility, failed to use the Domain-based Message, Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) protocol to block phishing attempts. Only one other contractor, the engineering firm and consultancy Tetra Tech, was implementing the second-highest DMARC control, in which phishing emails are quarantined.  Meanwhile, more than half the contractors had yet to implement any DMARC policy whatsoever, according to the study. Phishing is one of hackers’ favorite tools for breaching a network, and the federal government has been trying to defend against it for years. DMARC fights phishing by creating a public record for checking whether an email sender […]

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DARPA is looking to avoid another version of Meltdown or Spectre

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has contracted Tortuga Logic to develop hardware security tools that use commercial testing platforms to catch vulnerabilities in computer chips before they are deployed, the firm announced. The goal of the contract, awarded by the Pentagon’s R&D arm, is to prevent a repeat of Meltdown and Spectre, the security vulnerabilities revealed in January that affected virtually all modern computer chips. The contract is part of a DARPA hardware and firmware program that strives to make chips more secure at the “microarchitecture level.” DARPA says the program, which is tackling seven classes of hardware vulnerabilities, supports security methods that limit “hardware to states that are assured to be secure while maintaining the performance and power required for system operation.” Tortuga Logic says it can verify hardware security throughout the design process, arguing in a recent white paper that such verification is much more common in […]

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As .gov turns to cloud, agency heads deliberate cyber-defense strategies

Agencies across the U.S. government are increasingly looking to migrate their data into the cloud to cut costs, but doing so has also introduced new cybersecurity challenges, federal executives said Wednesday during Verizon’s Government of the Future conference produced by FedScoop. Each government agency is defined by a very specific mission set, explained Census Bureau […]

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