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By GCN Staff May 14, 2021 As the Defense Department weighs migrating legacy applications to programming languages that are more secure and easier to maintain, it must ensure automated solutions deliver the best chance of success to justify the migration costs. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is asking small businesses to submit proposals to its Lifting Legacy Code to Safer Languages program. LiLaCSL aims to not only develop tools and methodologies to migrate legacy C/C++ code to safer programming languages, but also ensure the code takes the fullest possible advantage of the tar...

By Jenni Bergal May 14, 2021 A cybercriminal gang that breached the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department’s computer network in a ransomware attack published detailed information this week about nearly two dozen officers, including Social Security numbers and psychological assessments. The group, Babuk, already had posted on the dark web lengthy dossiers of several officers. It claimed it stole more than 250 gigabytes of data late last month and is threatening to release more information as well as share files containing the names of confidential informants with criminal gangs i...

May 14, 2021 Small military units conducting hostage rescue, scouting and training missions depend on radio communications to coordinate actions with each other and their commanders. In some areas, such as in caves or jungles with heavy foliage, mobile radio frequency (RF) communications are difficult to sustain. In World War II, for example, radio communications in tropical jungles required the use of long strings of wire as a transmission medium. Recent developments in RF mobility gain – the technique of moving radios to locations where they can  better access power for transmission -- h...

By Andrew Churchill May 12, 2021 Under the Industries of the Future Act, Congress proposes to spend $10 billion on artificial intelligence, quantum computing and 5G over the next 10 years. Further, the recently released National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence report highlights how the AI revolution will impact the U.S. economy, national security and welfare. Recognizing the significance of these groundbreaking technologies is an important first step, but now comes the difficult job of unlocking value commensurate with the investment being made. This will require new thinking a...

By Stephanie Kanowitz May 13, 2021 A cloud-based secure email gateway has helped the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES) decrease the threat from inbound ransomware messages and other malware. Although state government offices now receive about half a million email messages per day, compared to 372,000 per day last July, they were getting more than three times as many malware messages last year. “I think it’s because we didn’t have good email security in place,” the state’s Chief Information Security Officer Matt Singleton said. “As our posture has gotten ...