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McCain Ready To Tackle Cyber Threats, Cost-Plus Contracts as SASC Chairman The Arizona Republican and incoming Senate Armed Services Committee chairman says that in his 31 years in Washington, no issue has seen less action after meetings than cyber. [more] Report: Iran Hackers Infiltrated Airlines, Energy, Defense FirmsAn Iranian hacker group has breached airlines, energy companies, defense firms and even the US Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, according to the US cyber security firm Cylance. [more] New DoD Cloud Policy Delayed To Early DecemberThe Department of Defense's new cloud procurement policy - expected to drop last week - is now slated to be released in early December, according to a spokesperson from the DoD Office of the Chief Information Officer. [more] New Tech Beefs Up Military-Strength EncryptionMilitary and industry are developing a variety of software- and hardware-based encryption systems, including new software encryption tools, self-encrypting drives and biometrics. [more] Derived Credentials To Roll Out Across DoD By July 2015Personnel in the Department of Defense Office of the Chief Information Officer are piloting the use of derived credentials to send secure emails on their mobile devices without having to go through the added steps of plugging in an authorized common access card (CAC), a system that could be rolled out across the component agencies by this summer. [more] New Software Detects Personal Identifiers In EmailThe US Air Force is launching the tool - the Digital Signature Enforcement Tool, or DSET version 1.6.1 - on its main computer network in hopes of reducing accidental breaches. [more] System Admin Sentenced For Hacking US Navy DatabaseA former nuclear systems administrator with the US Navy was sentenced to two years in prison for his role in the 2012 hacking of the Navy's Smart Web Move database and publicly releasing personal records of some 222,000 service members. [more] | ||||||||||
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