The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will be holding a “Vendor Outreach Session” on Thursday, Oct. 4, to discuss new programs, requirements and acquisitions, Kimberly Brown, deputy branch chief of FEMA’s Program Management Operations Branch, told a meeting of the Government Technology and Services Coalition (GTSC), on Sept. 28. A Vendor Outreach Session differs from… Keep Reading
Prolexic Technologies, a Hollywood, Fla.-based cybersecurity firm specializing in distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection services, today warned of an escalating threat from unusually large and highly sophisticated DDoS attacks. The DDoS attacks have been launched in the last week using the so-called itsoknoproblembro DDoS toolkit. The malicious actor(s) behind the attacks have used this… Keep Reading
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Seventeen leading universities in the U.S. and abroad will start offering free cyber courses through the online education platform Coursera, Mountain View-based Coursera announced. The announcement underscores the rapid expansion of so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, that are reshaping the higher education landscape. Coursera, a for-profit company started by… Keep Reading