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The U.S. Air Force has awarded CSC with a contract to provide cybersecurity services for the 33rd Network Warfare Squadron (NWS) based at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. The contract, which has a one-year base period and two option years, has an estimated total three-year value of $30 million.

Today at Black Hat DC, Microsoft is releasing a beta version of Attack Surface Analyzer, a new (and free!) tool designed to help assess the security of applications.According to Microsoft, Attack Surface Analyzer is the same tool used by Microsoft's internal product teams to catalog changes made to the operating system by the installation of new software.

The ease-of-use and ability to amass great profits through the use of easily accessible “attack toolkits” are driving faster proliferation of cyber attacks and expanding the pool of attackers.

AT&T has partnered with McAfee to offer

Sharing Threat Data - What’s Worth Sharing and What are the Benefits?

The biggest challenge for 2011 will be with concurrent and possibly combinatory change (i.e. additive) and the privacy and security implications of all of this.

Symantec this morning announced a new appliance series designed to help customers expand their data protection infrastructure with an easy to deploy, all-in-one hardware and software backup solution that integrates deduplication to reduce storage requirements.

Who does this Jeff Moss cat think he is anyway?

According to a recent study released this morning by IBM, more than half of midsize companies are planning to increase their information technology (IT) budgets over the next 12 to 18 months.

Despite lagging PC sales and a slow overall economy, Intel today reported $43.6 billion in revenue for 2010, with operating income of $15.9 billion and net income of $11.7 billion, resulting in an EPS of $2.05 – all records.

NASA announced today that it has appointment Valarie Burks as the deputy CIO for Information Technology Security.

Following on the heels of a report from Sybase yesterday which said 90 percent of U.S.

The Bradley Manning Support Network, a group supporting Bradley Manning, the Army soldier charged with leaking a massive number of classified 

IronKey, the company best known for its secure USB drives of the same name, announced this morning that Arthur Wong has joined the company as its new chief executive officer. Current IronKey CEO and Founder David Jevans will become chairman of the company's board of directors.

Email has often been Deemed too High Risk to Trust to a Third-Party Service Provider. Will the Events of 2010 Have an Effect on Organizations Migrating to the Cloud in 2011?

iPads and other tablet devices, combined with a soft economy, seem to be having an affect on the global PC Market. According to a research report from IDC, the worldwide PC market continued to slow in the fourth quarter of 2010, yet total shipments in Q4 were the largest ever.

Today at BlackBerry DEVCON Asia, Research In Motion launched the beta version of the BlackBerry WebWorks™ SDK for Tablet OS as well as new services and developer tools for BlackBerry devices. New features include access to core functionality in the BlackBerry PlayBook, as well as extensibility and robust security.

In a recent survey, 90 percent of U.S. and UK IT managers said they are planning to implement new mobile applications this year, with half saying that successfully managing mobile applications tops their priority list.

To stay secure, Make sure these IT Security Initiatives are Among your Priorities in the Year Ahead

The AMBER Alert program, credited with the safe recovery of 525 children across the country, has a new ally: Facebook. And finally Facebook gets some good press.