The Department of Homeland Security is looking for a new Director for the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US CERT) Operations. The job pays between $119,554 and $179,700 and is open ...

U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team Director (US-CERT) Randy Vickers has resigned, Federal News Radio reported after obtaining an internal Homeland Security Department email. The email said that ...

According to US-CERT, phalanx2 bears certain similarities to an older rootkit called "phalanx," and is set up to steal SSH keys and send them to attackers, who then turn around and use them to break ...

copy of a report submitted by the Office of Management and Budget to the key Congressional Committee responsible for cyber security. The report criticizes the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team for ...

House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz wants more details on the response to the OPM hacks. Overseers in Congress are teeing up material for another round of hearings on the ...

The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) published a vulnerability warning this week about a zero-day security exploit involving the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol in Windows systems.

On the same day Microsoft issued fixes for at least 11 Windows software flaws, the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) warned that hackers were using malicious Microsoft Access databases ...

David is the managing editor of FedTech magazine. Ann Barron-DiCamillo, the former director of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), was awarded the National Association of ...

HD Moore, the well-known security researcher and creator of Metasploit, three years ago exposed the problem of Internet-connected devices using vendors' factory-default passwords. Today the US-CERT ...

US-CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) is headed to Estonia to do a little forensics on the well-reported cyberattack that took out much of the small country's infrastructure, InfoWorld reports.

The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued a warning that North Korea has stepped up its efforts to attack media, aerospace, and financial companies in the United States.