CNBC is running a new documentary on the cyber espionage threat. It runs several times over the next few days and I would strongly encourage you to watch it. I also encourage you to tell everyone you know to watch it. If you are an IT professional or involved in the cybersecurity community, or evenRead… Read more »
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The National Vehicle Location Service, which has over 685 million continually updated images of license plates, will soon be available to the Department of Homeland Security for locating fugitive aliens. More here. The government funded National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace will convene this summerRead… Read more »
Considered an “un-conference,” Gov 2.0 LA is the mind child of innovator and analyst Alan Silberberg that has been taking place every year since 2010. it brings together many people from around the world and from different fields to talk about Gov 2.0 and the technology surrounding it. Gov 2.0 LA streams the videos onlineRead… Read more »
United States Special Operations Command has requested a Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation base budget of $427 million for Fiscal Year 2013 to prepare for the challenges of future conflict and to maintain SOCOM’s role a world leading fighting force. In their own words, ”USSOCOM is always interested in new ideas and evolving technologies generatedRead… Read more »
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Federal Bureau of Investigation will shut off the temporary servers it set up to help victims of the DNSChanger malware on July 9, leading to hundreds of thousands of Internet blackouts. More here. The hacker behind the 1998 penetration of Department of Defense networks inRead… Read more »
Bobby Caudill of Cleversafe is an institution in the federal IT ecosystem. He has a reputation as a great translator between the different languages of technology, mission and policy and his knack in that regard means when he speaks everyone can learn something. We have another chance to hear him discuss the relevance of aRead… Read more »
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: A federal investigation showed that illegal software exports helped China develop its first attack helicopter. More here. Of the 2,189 federal and state wiretaps last year, only 12 were on encrypted communications, none of which interfered with the intercept. More here. The Defense Advanced Research ProjectsRead… Read more »
We have written before about the incredibly innovative and virtuous capabilities of Liquid Robotics (see our Update on Liquid Robotics, for example). This really interesting company, led by CEO Bill Vass, is making huge inroads in sensor deployments in some of the most difficult to monitor parts of our planet. That is, the vast, openRead… Read more »
CTOvision, CTOlabs and the tech consultancy behind them Crucial Point LLC are all run out of the Washington DC area. We seek global views of technology but this region is definitely our base and we have a very high percentage of readers in the local ecosystem. For those of you here, you know the biggestRead… Read more »
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Excluding intelligence agencies, which keep their costs secret, the U.S. Government spent $11 billion last year keeping classified information secret, twice the cost of classification a decade ago. More here. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has built “a prototype for automatically generating and distributing believableRead… Read more »