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We can't rely any longer on the comforting urban legend that the Internet is impervious to attack. The Internet is a massive collection of remotely accessible, often poorly maintained networks supported by software systems with little diversity and a history of . . .
Mandating an XML messaging format, the integration allowed for the transfer of remote program and financial information from one database to another, where batch information is verified and balanced, said Negron. Even though these two divisions had already been sharing information . . .
The Defense Department's Biometrics Fusion Center soon will begin testing software on four types of biometric devices for use on its Common Access smart cards. DOD's Biometrics Management Office last week awarded a $915,000 contract to KPMG Consulting Inc. of . . .
In Washington state, a Tacoma company has invented a computer program that could stop terrorists from using a plane as a missile. An Auburn firm has tested a device that might have allowed air traffic controllers to track the planes headed . . .
Keep in mind that technology alone is not going to prevent terrorism. In fact, it is the easier part of the equation. The government has budgeted $50 billion for information technology in the 2003 federal budget, but it will not be . . .
It's free, it's becoming more secure, and it's even the dirty little secret among some computer geeks who work in the U.S. government. Then why isn't Linux more prevalent? One word: Microsoft. Another: Oracle. By Declan McCullagh and Robert Zarate. . . .
Richard Clarke, special adviser to the president on cyberspace security, said Monday that the proposed new Homeland Security Department would increase the government's focus on cybersecurity. Clarke said that the new Cabinet-level department would house the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection . . .
"The threats to cyberspace, and there are many, cannot be handled only by the military or the government," said Richard A. Clarke, special adviser to the president for cyberspace security. "All of us own a piece of cyberspace, so all of us must act to secure cyberspace.". . .
The government team leading the development of a security gateway designed to authenticate users accessing e-government services asked industry last week for possible solutions to make the initiative a reality. The "technical exchange day" held June 7 at Mitretek Systems Inc., . . .
The popularity of the Linux open source operating system is exploding in the public sector, both in the U.S. and abroad. In May, IBM Corp. alone announced a deal to supply the Air Force, Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Agriculture, . . .
Without required approval, U.S. prosecutors sent a subpoena to MSNBC demanding a reporter's notes, e-mails and other information as part of an investigation into a nomadic young hacker who acknowledged breaking into computers at The New York Times earlier this year.. . .
A technical glitch in the FBI system for tapping e-mail hampered an investigation apparently linked to Osama bin Laden and raises privacy concerns, a privacy watchdog group said yesterday. The Carnivore system was supposed to capture e-mail from the target . . .
In what one military source called a "barrage" of contacts with officials at the Defense Information Systems Agency and the office of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld over the past few months, the company said "open source" software threatens security and its intellectual property. But the effort may have backfired.. . .
The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee passed a bill May 16 that would add millions to federal information security research funding and -- thanks to a last-minute amendment -- establish regularly updated baseline security standards for agencies.. . .
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the First Amendment Project today asked the California Supreme Court to uphold a lower court's decision to permit publication of the source code for DeCSS technology, which circumvents digital copy protection systems.. . .
The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Monday voted to increase funding for anti-cybercrime programs, despite claims from software and high-tech groups that last-minute changes to the bill could stifle innovation. The "Cyber Security Research and Development Act," sponsored by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., would give $970 million over five years to the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Standards and Technology to improve government computer and network security. . . .
The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee late last week passed an IT security research bill that would create a cybersecurity office at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The bill, S 2182, now awaits a vote by the full . . .
Officials from George Mason and James Madison universities announced May 14 that they will create a federally funded center to provide resources and research for government and industry organizations that protect the nation's critical infrastructure. . . .
Consumers would gain more power to keep junk e-mail out of their inboxes under legislation approved by a U.S. Senate committee today. The bill, passed by the Senate Commerce Committee, requires that unsolicited e-mail, or "spam," contain valid return addresses that . . .
In another setback for free speech advocates, hacker magazine 2600 has lost its bid for an appeal of a ruling banning it from posting code that can be used to crack DVD copy protections.. . .
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