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It may seem unreasonable, unfair and downright mean-spirited to compare the Bush administration to the minions of Sauron, the granddaddy of evil in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. But here goes. . .
The FBI is not effectively managing the costs, schedules and performance of its information technology investments, including its multimillion-dollar Trilogy program, according to the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General. . .
The Small Business Administration and the Defense Department last week took the first step toward completing the Business Partner Network for government contractors. SBA integrated its small business database, PRO-Net, with DOD's Central Contractor Registration system. . .
Efforts to bolster Internet security will not lead to increased government scrutiny of individuals' online habits, the White House and industry sources said Friday. As it finalizes sweeping guidelines that aim to increase cybersecurity, the Bush administration said individual privacy . . .
The Bush administration is planning to propose requiring Internet service providers to help build a centralized system to enable broad monitoring of the Internet and, potentially, surveillance of its users. . .
The White House's cyber-security arm will not release the next draft of its National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace by the end of the year, as it had originally planned. The President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, which produced the strategy, is . . .
Years could elapse before a successful challenge to the DMCA is mounted, and in that time, dozens -- maybe even hundreds -- of people will back down because they can't afford the legal bills and time required to take on Wal-Mart or the RIAA. When you're writing up your list of resolutions for 2003, put this near the top: Repeal the DMCA Latest News about DMCA. Yeah, I know most of us aren't members of Congress, but we can put pressure on our respective representatives to stick up for individuals' rights to enjoy unrestricted use of digital media and hardware.. . .
The White House's Homeland Security Office and the Office of Personnel Management have been rallying prospective federal homeland security workers via a Web site intended to answer their questions about the new department and transition matters, a senior transition official said. . . .
A jury on Tuesday acquitted a Russian software company of criminal copyright charges related to selling a program that can crack antipiracy protections on electronic books. The case against ElcomSoft is considered a crucial test of the criminal provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a controversial law designed to extend copyright protections into the digital age.. . .
The Gilmore Commission has strongly criticized the administration's cybersecurity policy and called for a merger of cyber- and physical security policy work in the White House. The commission's fourth report, released in full today, repeated the recommendation of its third . . .
The Bush administration sped approval for moving one of the Internet's 13 traffic-management computers after a prominent technology company urged the government to ``declare some kind of national security threat and blow past the process,'' according to federal officials' e-mails. . .
Perhaps no project being developed as a result of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has caused such intense public scrutiny and debate as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Total Information Awareness (TIA) system. . .
Speaking at a Spy Museum breakfast today, Secret Service assistant director Steve Colo said the new Homeland Security Department will consolidate all its component agencies' software licenses "for the greater good," looking first at large contracts with vendors such as Microsoft Corp. and Oracle. . .
The government is considering amending the Computer Misuse Act (CMA), amid concern within the Internet industry that denial of service (DoS) attacks may not be covered by the law.The Home Office, in consultation with groups such as the police and industry representatives, is currently examining ways of updating the CMA, according to a Home Office spokeswoman. . . .
Never let it be said that the United States Senate has done nothing for Internet privacy. Network administrators for the U.S. government site www.senate.gov shut down an open proxy server over the weekend that for months had turned the site into a free Web anonymizer that could have allowed savvy surfers to launder their Internet connections so that efforts to trace them would lead to Capitol Hill. . . .
Private-sector chief information officers will play a key role in the work of the new U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to Lee Holcomb, director of infrastructure at the White House Office of Homeland Security. . .
A national identification system is one approach to strengthening identity security, but a white paper published by a coalition of government organizations also proposes a "confederated" system in which Americans could use multiple identifiers for clusters of agencies and/or businesses. . .
Federal agents have raided a Boston-area computer software firm looking for evidence that the company, which does business with key government agencies including the FBI, might have links to Osama bin Laden's terror network. The Quincy, Mass.-based firm, Ptech Inc., . . .
The 24 major agencies of the U.S. government performed so poorly this year that lawmakers charged with overseeing government efficiency want to tie agencies' funding to network security procedures and force them to buy software only from a list of "qualified" . . .
A group made up of representatives of the U.S. government and leading technology companies has released new certification standards for security professionals, according to a statement by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA. . .
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