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Although malware can evade signatures and other filters, its code leaves telltale tracks that can be discovered through traffic analysis, analysts show in FOSE demonstration.
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IT officials at a recent conference said efforts to protect their infrastructure are hampered by a lack of resources and a lack of understanding from those who make funding decisions.
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SAFECode, an industry group promoting reliability in commercial software, is releasing a free online training course on the basics secure software development.
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The open access policies at educational institutions can leave them open to being exploited as bots in large-scale distributed denial of service attacks. There are steps they can take to mitigate the problem.
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Deployment of the governmentwide intrusion detection system was scheduled to be completed last year, but there still are a "bunch of agencies not covered."
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The annual conference and expo kicks off Tuesday, tackling the key challenges facing the public-sector IT community.
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NIST adds the Apple iOS CoreCrypto Kernel Module v3.0 to its Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) certification list.
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The emerging focus on automating IT security raises the question: will agencies automate FISMA compliance or risk management?
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Decoys assigned to user accounts could tip off admins to attacks born of stolen passwords, Ari Juels and Ron Rivest say.
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Despite efforts to use the principles of quantum computing to create unbreakable encryption, the system fails outside a lab or highly controlled setting.