The National Security Agency detailed “a significant amount of people and resources” to the Federal investigation of the data breach at the Office of Personnel Management, NSA Director Admiral Michael Rogers acknowledged Tuesday at a public forum in Washington, D.C. The response, however, was largely an effort to help OPM understand how the breach happened […]

A group of cybersecurity and computer science experts backed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency began a long-term encryption research effort last month that could one day prevent hackers from being able to reverse engineer and steal software. The goal of DARPA’s Safeware program is to develop technology that can cryptographically obscure software code, […]

The Office of Personnel Management and the Defense Department Awarded a $133 million contract Tuesday to Portland, Oregon-based Identity Theft Guard Solutions LLC for identity theft protection services in the aftermath of the massive breach of the Federal government’s central security clearance database. “We remain fully committed to assisting the victims of these serious cybercrimes […]

Defense Secretary Ash Carter plans to announce an expansion of the Pentagon’s public-private partnership with Silicon Valley Friday in what is being described as a “major economic initiative.” The visit to the nation’s technology center of gravity is being billed by the Pentagon as a followup to Carter’s trip in April, when he released a […]

It’s only been one month since Microsoft unveiled Windows 10 to great fanfare and high expectations for a world of new and better user experiences. And while the initial focus was on the deep integration between the operating system and the Internet, much of that attention has now turned to security. And the timing couldn’t […]

Decades of funding shortfalls and tired legacy systems are to blame for the massive data breach at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), says OPM Director Katherine Archuleta, who defended her agency and its staff under heavy questioning in Congress last week. Case in point: OPM was using the most basic version of Einstein, the […]