Pentagon to Start Awarding Medals for Drone Strikes and Cyberattacks
The Defense Department is reportedly inventing a new medal designed to reward soliders who fight battles from the safety of their computer consoles.
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Cybersecurity is a top priority this year for President Obama, and concerns are growing about a potential attack that could cripple the nation's infrastructure. Here are the three areas where the country is most vulnerable to a cyberattack.
The Defense Department is reportedly inventing a new medal designed to reward soliders who fight battles from the safety of their computer consoles.
Today federal authorities charged three men with building and disseminating a virus that crippled NASA computers and brought in tens of millions of dollars for cybercriminals. The new court documents detail the inner workings of Eastern Europe's cybercrime market.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Cyberattacks are happening constantly across the globe, and now you can see what that looks in real-time with this map by the Honeynet Project that shows so many attacks, it looks and feels like it's straight out of an apocalyptic war movie.
Researchers detail an international hacking plot that's been running for five years
On Obama's prudence, the Syrian people, and Shakespeare's appeal in China
Guidelines are emerging for offensive and defensive operations
It would be the group's first U.S. government intrusion
British intelligence officials hacked the terrorists's inaugural issue of Inspire
Tech defense chief walks a fine line between raising alarm and writing it off
On the necessity of hell, the value of copper, and white America's social divide
How Chinese hackers outperform pretty much everybody else in the world
Russian president lags behind American teens by a few years
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