Aaron Boyd

Aaron Boyd is an awarding-winning journalist currently serving as editor of Federal Times — a Washington, D.C. institution covering federal workforce and contracting for more than 50 years — and Fifth Domain — a news and information hub focused on cybersecurity and cyberwar from a civilian, military and international perspective.


  • Current national defense models don’t work in cyberspace
    Current national defense models don’t work in cyberspace

    Former presidential cybersecurity adviser Michael Daniel walks through the various models for national defense, then explains why none of them work in cybersecurity.

  • McCaul calls for ‘red lines’ on political hacking
    McCaul calls for ‘red lines’ on political hacking

    Cyberattacks against the U.S., particularly domestic Democratic institutions, are a “red line we should not allow anyone to cross,” Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told the crowd at the 2017 RSA Conference in San Francisco.

  • Starting the 1,000-mile journey to cyber-secure infrastructure
    Starting the 1,000-mile journey to cyber-secure infrastructure

    Former Director of the NSA’s Cyber Task Force Phil Quade wants us all to undertake a heroic mission: Fully securing the nation’s infrastructure from cyberattack.

  • 7 deadliest cyberattack techniques for 2017
    7 deadliest cyberattack techniques for 2017

    Experts from the SANS Institute explain the top threats currently evolving in cyberspace.

  • In sports, computer hacking is the new juicing
    In sports, computer hacking is the new juicing

    In team sports, the new frontier in cheating has nothing to do with performance enhancing drugs and everything to do with the computer sitting on the general manager’s desk.

  • Foreign hacker gets 8 years for $55M scam
    Foreign hacker gets 8 years for $55M scam

    A prolific foreign hacker behind cyberattacks that netted an estimated $55 million is facing sentencing by a U.S. judge in a conviction considered an unusual win for law enforcement officials who have identified hundreds of others like him but failed to put them in handcuffs.

  • Hackers get burned in deal with Russian spy agency
    Hackers get burned in deal with Russian spy agency

    Russian hackers made a deal with the FSB. Now three are in jail and another is on the run.

  • Danes see Russia as cyber ‘leader’ with ‘advanced capabilities’
    Danes see Russia as cyber ‘leader’ with ‘advanced capabilities’

    The Danish position is similar to that reached by others in the Nordic region where national security agencies recently have pointed fingers at Russia for illicit online activities.

  • Former NSA contractor facing 200 years for stolen docs
    Former NSA contractor facing 200 years for stolen docs

    A federal grand jury unveiled an indictment Feb. 8 charging former NSA contractor Harold Martin with stealing highly classified documents over the course of a 20-year career.

  • Study: Cybersecurity threat hunting on the rise
    Study: Cybersecurity threat hunting on the rise

    Based on a comprehensive survey of cybersecurity professionals in the 350,000-member Information Security Community on LinkedIn, the research report reveals that cyber threats are rising dramatically and that deployment of sophisticated threat hunting platforms and methods in security operation centers (SOCs) can significantly improve detection rates and accelerate the time spent to detect, investigate and…