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Homeland Security selects Online Trust Alliance for cyber training to increase awareness and to stem the flood of spear phishing attacks on government agencies meant to steal secrets or wreak havoc on critical U.S. infrastructure. Cyber mayhem strikes as hackers launch digital attack that destroyed a water pump in real time and the physical world of Springfield, Illinois. Unhappy with Homeland Security's response, a hacker took aim at the SCADA system behind Houston's water supply network and posted 'prrof of concept hack.

The U.S. government needs to be certain that our response to the genuine and massive threat of cyber attacks is not as bureaucratic and fractious as everything else that goes on in Washington these days.

While Android is hugely popular, it's also the most highly targeted OS for mobile malware. In fact, numerous security firms predict doom and gloom for Droid security in the 2012 mobile device ecosystem; cybercriminals may view Android as the new low-hanging fruit. Android mobile malware has 'exploded' and was dubbed one of the biggest cyber menaces for government.

Net neutrality, which is short for network neutrality, is defined as a network design principle that pushes for few or no restrictions by Internet service providers or governments on the types of data or networks that users can access on the World Wide Web.

As Cyber Monday draws near and debate continues about the Stop Online Piracy Act, the U.S. government again seizes a bevy of domain names it says belong to Web sites that deal in counterfeit goods.

The teaching of computer science needs to be reformed to make it more relevant to modern needs, says the government.

For the past 24 hours the hugely popular MegaUpload file-hosting service has been rendered inaccessible across many countries around the world. With the United States government 'Cyber Monday' domain seizures fresh in everyone's mind, fingerpointing has been directed at the U.S. authorities. The problems, however, seem to be rooted with the site's domain registrar since they appear to have 'seized' MegaUpload's DNS records following a dispute.

Security researchers for DARPA are developing a Big Data Analytics system to sift through mindbogglingly massive datasets, terabytes and petabytes, to spot lone wolf insider threats to the government. About a quarter billion daily IMs, texts, emails, and other digital records will be analyzed by PRODIGAL over long periods of time to find the employees who "may not realize they are going down the slippery slope," to tackle and solve insider threat and lone wolf type of problems.

In the continued spotlight on mass surveillance, WikiLeaks Spy Files posted Gamma videos teaching intelligence agencies how to hack iTunes, Gmail and Skype. But Tatiana Lucas, one of the people behind profiting from the secret snoop ISS conferences, wants you to believe that exposing surveillance methods will cost U.S. jobs, make companies hesitant to support government surveillance, and maybe stop Congress from updating a lawful-interception law. Yet this company that profits on mass monitoring fails to mention privacy rights, civil liberties, or human rights.

Can the government really hold a domain for a year and then return it without so much as an apology? A legal expert tells Ars the courts have have done a poor job overseeing the domain seizure program, but the victims are unlikely to receive significant compensation.