The US and Israel Tied to Stuxnet, The Navy Seeks to Tame Big Data, and More

Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news:

President Obama ordered to accelerate a campaign of cyberattacks against started by President Bush and code-named Olympic Games including the U.S. and Israeli developed Stuxnet. More here.
The Department of Energy missed 500 data centers managed by contractors when it took inventory in July, 2011. More here.
The Office of Management and Budget seeks to revise its 10 year old cybersecurity guidelines. More here.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation warns of new ransomware identified that accuses victims of visiting child pornography sites and demands that they pay a fine. More here.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control System (ICS) Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) said that it doesn’t believe Flame targets ICS but still urges caution. More here.
The Office of Naval Research has launched development on its Computational Methods for Decision Making program to build algorithms that make sense of unstructured intelligence and imagery data. More here.
A new mobile application manages Big Data for grassroots political campaigning. More here.

This post by AlexOlesker was first published at CTOvision.com.