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DISA trying to reduce its attack surface

The Defense Department has several hundreds of thousands network end points, at least 19 Internet gateways and more than 2 million servicemen and women and civilian employees using the network. Add to that the wide range of threats from nation states, common hackers, organized crime and other cyber villains, DoD's faces thousands of attacks each week.

Tags: technology , Mark Orndorff , DISA , DoD , JTF-GNO , Suss Consulting , cybersecurity , information sharing

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Hacker challenge at NDU

Hacker challenge at NDU, hack attack traced to Chinese schools.

Tags: Cybersecurity Update , cybersecurity , Defense , DoD , Google , NDU

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Military ban on flash drives still in place

Chunks of Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative to be declassified, Microsoft: Don't press F1 key in Windows XP

Tags: Cybersecurity Update , flash drive ban , DoD , Defense , cybersecurity , Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative , Howard Schmidt , Windows XP , VBScript bug

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Air Force ban of thumb drives is temporary WikiLeaks solution

Information Security reports that a security expert says the Air Force ban of thumb drives will not solve the problem of how to prevent classified leaks, such as in the WikiLeaks incident.

Tags: Cybersecurity Update , technology , information security , WikiLeaks , Air Force , security , Dorobek Insider

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