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'Cyber Challenge' encourages teen hackers to seek security jobs
Like skilled cat burglars, teams of college-age hackers slithered past defenses to probe the soft underbelly of a sophisticated computer system.
Their mission: to steal secrets and leave an electronic calling card.
As they tapped away on laptops and...Tags: Security, Students, Engineering, Defense, National Security
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Feds should return computers to NSA whistleblower
It was shocking to see that the National Security Agency is still persecuting Thomas Drake, the whistleblower who exposed a wasteful computer system and then was prosecuted ("NSA whistle-blowers want seized computers returned," Nov. 18). He and his...Tags: Thomas Drake, Judges, Justice System, Defense, National Security
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Too many secrets
Every 6-year-old knows what a secret is. But apparently our nation's national security establishment does not.
Consider this strange case from earlier this year. On June 8, the National Security Agency, a top-secret government spy agency, heralded the...Tags: Thomas Drake, Defense, Google Inc., National Security, Prosecution
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NSA whistleblower is an American hero
Since I believe Thomas Drake is a hero for blowing the whistle on incompetence and possible malfeasance at the National Security Agency, I attended his sentencing hearing ("No jail time for ex-NSA official," July 16). I appreciated the fact that U.S....Tags: Judges, Thomas Drake, National Government, Justice System, Defense
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Northrop Grumman to lay off at Fort Meade, elsewhere
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. warned state regulators Friday that it will be laying off 224 employees across the country, including dozens based at Fort Meade, after losing a contract to provide security for a government agency. But a...Tags: Fort Meade (military base), Aerospace Manufacturing, National Security, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Manufacturing and Engineering
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The Interview: Barry Bogage
The Maryland/Israel Development Center sees itself as a matchmaker — not of a romantic kind but an economic one.
For the past 19 years, the nonprofit group in Baltimore has been connecting Maryland companies with Israeli partners to promote trade...Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Invention and Innovation, Finance, Israel, Europe
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Helping businesses defend against cyber threats
Analysts with the National Security Agency see the threats coming at corporate America: viruses, worms and other malware targeting the computer networks that serve the nation's banks, utilities and businesses.
But the 64-year-old law that established the...Tags: China, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Computer Networking and Internet, Defense, American Civil Liberties Union
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Naval Academy preparing officers for cyberwarfare
Huddled over laptop computers, four midshipmen spent 20 minutes setting up a wireless network and tested it with what they assumed was a private chat.
But Ensign Justin Monroe, a teaching assistant at the Naval Academy, used a small wireless receiver...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Fort Meade (military base), Security, Apple iPhone, Libya
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In Fort Meade, Howard sees growing economic engine
First in a two-part series
Back in the early 1990s, when Kent Menser was the commander of Fort Meade and the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were still part of an unforeseeable future, there wasn't much heavy-duty security at the military base.
Local traffic...Tags: Fort Meade (military base), Defense, National Security, Companies and Corporations, Odenton
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Pentagon creating new spy service
The Pentagon is creating a new intelligence service aimed at gathering information on terrorist networks, weapons of mass destruction and other emerging concerns, a senior defense official said Monday. The new Defense Clandestine Service will draw...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Fort Meade (military base), Police Investigations, The Pentagon, Defense
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Ruppersberger co-sponsors cybersecurity bill
Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, and Republican committee Chairman Mike Rogers introduced legislation Wednesday that would allow the government to share classified information on potential cyberattacks...Tags: Defense, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, National Security, Business Enterprises
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Transportation department head, council discuss budget
Howard County must act soon to improve its public transit options, the county's new transportation chief says, arguing that the growing population will be choked with traffic in coming years if people are not provided with better options. John Powell Jr....Tags: Fort Meade (military base), Ellicott City, John Powell, Transportation
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