Cyber News

  • Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Gone Phishing

    The digital world has become an important part of our lives. We pay bills, we stay connected with our friends and family, we shop. All of this adds up to vast amounts of data moving around the internet, leaving our personal and financial information vulnerable to cybercrimes.

  • Cybersecurity Awareness Month - Secure Teleworking

    While teleworking is not a new concept, the COVID pandemic highlighted the complexities of working efficiently, productively and most importantly, securely from home. Operating under the emerging constraints of COVID and the need for social distancing, the Air Force quickly adapted by implementing

  • Long lost and rare Italian cipher machine found

    At the outbreak of WWII in 1939, Nazi Germany’s Enigma encryption machine stood as the state-of-the art method for sending and receiving secret messages. It wasn’t until 1940 that English mathematician Alan Turing, and the team at Bletchley Park, cracked the daily changes Berlin made to its cipher

  • Community College of the Air Force Transcripts

    Ordering Options   CCAF provides several options for ordering your official transcript as detailed below. Note we do not have the ability to send transcripts electronically at this time. All official transcripts are hard copy. Option 1: Free online order from CCAF You may order an official

  • Cybersecurity courses offer continuing education

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - Cybersecurity Awareness Month is here. After months of planning and preparation, the 88th Communications Squadron’s Cybersecurity Office has kicked off CSAM with great success.Every day this month, the 88 CS cybersecurity team will hold at least one class

  • Learning the Art of Counterintelligence from CIA’s best

    In a report to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, World War II bomber legend Gen. James Doolittle wrote:“It is now clear that we are facing an implacable enemy whose avowed objective is world domination by whatever means and at whatever cost. There are no rules in such a game. Hitherto acceptable norms

  • 97th cyber warriors perform first MDT exercise

    The 97th Communications Squadron used its recently built cyber-training range for their Mission Defense Team to participate in its first cyber defense exercise on Sept. 30,2021. This exercise was in partnership with the U.S. Air National Guard’s 229th Cyberspace Operation Squadron from Vermont. The

  • NEO aftermath; 379th ECS back to basics

    – As the hub for 70% of the network traffic for the Air Forces Central Command area of responsibility, the 379th Expeditionary Communications Squadron operates and maintains that network, providing mission assurance. A key part to this, is making sure the operations aren’t interfered through the

  • The U.S., China, and Artificial Intelligence Competition Factors

         As technology continues to progress rapidly, so does its impact on modern warfare. As the world moves deeper into the era of great power competition, this becomes an even more important area to watch. The United States and China are both pursuing high technology very rapidly and with

  • It’s about connection: Information Technology team keeps AFMAO online

    Every Air Force entity requires a strong sense of cybersecurity to maintain mission success. With a no-fail mission at Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations, that sense of cybersecurity is even more important. The four-member Information Technology team at AFMAO keeps connections safe and secure.

  • Religious Accommodation Requests: What to Expect

    For Airmen seeking a religious accommodation request, chaplains play a critical role in ensuring each request is fully considered in accordance with DAFI 52-201, Religious Freedom in the Department of the Air Force.

  • Cybersecurity Awareness Month kicks off with virtual classes

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - October is the month of spooks and scares but also the time for Cybersecurity Awareness Month.The 88th Communications Squadron’s Cybersecurity Office has joined the global effort to promote awareness for online safety and privacy as part of the monthlong