In-brief: The resignation of the Office of Personnel Management’s Director may have ended official Washington’s search for a fall guy, but it won’t solve anything and may make recovering from the hack harder, experts warn.
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The Abject Failure of Federal InfoSec
In-brief: OPM and IRS are just the latest incidents to expose the dire state of federal information security practice. The question is: why?
Success Story? OPM Security Chief Trumpeted New Approach to Cyber
In-brief: Is the massive breach at the U.S. Government’s Office of Personnel Management a success story? Given the dire state of risk management within the federal government, the answer may be ‘yes.’
Mobilizing SQL Injection Attacks: Same Pig, New Lipstick?
In-brief: New research from Akamai suggests that attackers are using new methods to carry out and cover up for malicious attacks, among them: harnessing harmless mobile carrier networks to carry out attacks such as SQL injection.
Today: Conversation with a Cyber Warrior
In-brief: Join Security Ledger and Invincea today at 1:00 PM ET for a chat with Gen. Rhett Hernandez, former commander of U.S. Army Cyber Command.
