Category Archives: Cybersecurity Memo – Insiders Edition

Federal investigators are looking into a report that hackers managed to remotely shut down a utility’s water pump in central Illinois last week, in what could be the first known foreign cyber attack on a U.S. industrial system. The Nov. … Continue reading →

The Department of Energy’s non-classified IT systems have recently come under successful cyberattacks at least four times, costing the department more than $2 million, the DoE inspector general said in an audit made public Monday. The report, part of the … Continue reading →

A sophisticated cyberattack has shut down Internet and e-mail services at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, an Energy Department facility that conducts IT security research. An Energy Department spokesman was unavailable for comment, but a posting on Twitter by the … Continue reading →

As computers, databases and networks come to intermediate almost every aspect of modern human life, the volume of electronic breadcrumbs generated from our daily activities and transactions has exploded. Academic researchers, marketers, governments, and social scientists are all clamoring to … Continue reading →

At first glance it seems like a fairly routine military tech project: DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is developing a miniature unmanned air vehicle that can be carried into the field in a rucksack and sent out to … Continue reading →

Love the idea of the US being patrolled by the same type of pilot-less drones that keep accidentally attacking innocent people in Afghanistan? Then you should reaally appreciate this story… A virus has infected America’s drone fleet, Wired’s Noah Shachtman … Continue reading →

Both the U.S. government and the country’s internet service providers (ISP) agree that botnets are among the greatest threats facing Web users. But they can’t yet agree on what to do about it, because the ISPs aren’t exactly the biggest … Continue reading →

As hackers and hostile nations launch increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks against U.S. defense contractors, the Pentagon is extending a pilot program to help protect its prime suppliers. That program could possibly serve as a model for other government agencies. It is … Continue reading →

Online games are being used for research in ways that are really having a huge impact! Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme … Continue reading →

The police department in Santa Cruz, California, has begun an experiment that uses a mathematical algorithm to predict when and where certain crimes will be committed, and puts police on the scene before they happen. So far police have arrested … Continue reading →