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The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) today issued a report urging government leaders in all 50 states to set aside political differences and make cybersecurity and critical-infrastructure protection a top priority. . . .
If House Hollywood sock puppet Howard Berman (Democrat, California) gets his way, it will become legal to hack a network in efforts to impede the on-line illicit trade in copyrighted works. . .
Can IT projects and government requirements be aligned to benefit both security and business goals? Executives usually don't look to the government for help with business-technology goals. But some have found surprising synergies between the Bush administration's homeland-defense strategy and their . . .
Years after orders from the White House to beef up the security of the nation's most important computer systems, the government is having trouble identifying which organizations should be involved and how they should be coordinated, according to a new report. . . .
Until last week, the staff of the United States Senate was demonstrating that the people who create our legislation don't think they have to obey it themselves. The Senate, which is now crafting legislation that would further restrict the illegal sharing. . .
The Office of Management and Budget today put on hold -- pending an expedited review by an interagency board -- all planned information technology investments above $500,000 at the major agencies that would be moving to the Homeland Security Department under . . .
Several U.S. government agencies have teamed with an international Internet security organization to support a set of benchmarks aimed at guaranteeing a minimum security standard for computers. The National Security Agency, the Defense Information Systems Agency and the National Institute of. . .
The President's Critical Infrastructure Board plans to release its National Strategy for Defending Cyberspace Sept. 11 in the Silicon Valley, board chairman Richard Clarke said. The document, which will outline a broad agenda for protecting national and global information resources, will. . .
In a high-tech, high-powered version of a neighborhood watch, a group of government agencies and private businesses plan to announce today a common set of standards and software to fight computer hacking. The Pentagon, the National Security Agency, the National Institute. . .
Most recent attacks were written and released by bored youngsters testing their skills, but the government is becoming more concerned about organized attacks against federal computers from terrorists or foreign governments. Several government agencies have had their own security standards for some time. What is new about Wednesday's announcement is that the various agencies have agreed on a single standard - a difficult task that occurred about three months ago.. . .
A federal agency created in the 1930s to help restore economic confidence during the Great Depression isn't winning the confidence of a congressional watchdog agency for its information security practices. Many end users had access to "powerful" systems commands, including 26 . . .
By a 385-3 vote, the House approved a computer crime bill that also expands police ability to conduct Internet or telephone eavesdropping without first obtaining a court order. The Bush administration had asked Congress to approve the Cyber Security Enhancement . . .
The White House budget office said on Friday it was setting up a review board to assess the technology needs of the proposed Department of Homeland Security. "This new department should have one world-class infrastructure, and on the books right now . . .
Technology Resource Mobilization Unit pursues GNU/Linux as a means of reducing software piracy. It must be quite flattering when a government sits up, takes note of the potential of a Linux-users group, and prominently features it in advertisements noticed nationwide. . .
The government needs to stay focused on first rescuing data trapped in older systems and then establishing the basic framework for widespread search and communications functions. Exotic, automated intelligence forays would be gravy atop such basic achievements, which by themselves would . . .
Pearl Harbor is used as a touchstone of cataclysmic events for a reason. Not only did it have entail enormous loss, damages and casualties, it also serves as a crucial moment in history. If one looks at December 7, 1941 or . . .
Computer security is becoming an increasingly critical part of President Bush's proposal for a homeland defense department. When Bush formally proposed the department last month, he predicted that the future agency would aid in investigating Al Qaeda and thwarting disasters . . .
President Bush's proposed Department of Homeland Security is likely to get its own privacy czar. A panel in the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote this week on a plan to add a chief privacy officer to the planned agency. . .
Forget any new laws canning spam and don't expect Uncle Sam to step in and protect your privacy. When it comes to technology, Congress is aggressively doing very little this year. . .
Among the more contentious questions to arise from President Bush's proposal last month for a Department of Homeland Security is one it did not explicitly address: How should the government deal with threats in cyberspace? Bush proposed merging various agencies, scattered . . .
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