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The DoJ said a DPRK spy, Park Jin-hyok, was involved in “a conspiracy to conduct multiple destructive cyberattacks around the world.” Continue reading U.S. Ties Lazarus to North Korea and Major Hacking Conspiracy
U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis is concluding his tech tour of the West Coast today with a visit to Google’s Mountain View campus. Mattis spent time at Amazon and the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, earlier in the week. His key takeaway from all the socializing with tech leaders is that the Department of Defense needs to embrace technology coming out of the private sector… Read More Continue reading The US Government must work with tech companies if it wants to remain competitive in AI
Those on the front lines of the cybersecurity workforce crisis are dogged by one question above all others: how to recruit and retain the highly technically skilled personnel they need. Now, thanks to the SANS Institute, they have some fresh answers — at least in the government contracting sector. The institute, an information-security training provider and research clearinghouse, analyzed a list of the top 100 U.S. government contractors, and identified the eight companies which score highest on two indices reflecting metrics developed by the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank last year. The eight firms are all major U.S. defense and intelligence contractors, called systems integrators because they build IT and other business systems for the government by assembling hardware, software and services from multiple vendors. According to the SANS analysis, the eight companies have had “remarkable success” in recruiting and retaining the highly technically skilled individuals that the CSIS report dubbed “cyber […]
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I first flew the F-35 as a nine-year-old. Continue reading This 1997 Flight Sim Let You Fly the F-35 Years Before It Was Ready
President Obama recently re-affirmed America’s commitment to sending a manned mission to Mars. Think your data science challenges are complicated? Imagine the difficulties involved in mining data to understand the health impacts of a trip to Mars. When sending humans “where no one has gone before,” there are a multitude of variables to consider, and NASA is hard at work… Read More Continue reading How data science and rocket science will get humans to Mars
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Continue reading Got an F-35 stealth jet? You may need to turn its radar off and on again