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Internet security experts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., are asking industry to develop ways to guarantee the military safe and anonymous access to the Internet amid hostile attempts to disrupt government cyber communications.
Does business really have anything to learn from government? I pondered this notion, listening to Margaret Salter, one of the top encryption policy experts at the National Security Agency, on IE Radio this week.
New home secretary Theresa May has paused Gary McKinnon's extradition proceedings so she can fully consider the issues in his case. May has applied for a judicial review hearing, scheduled for Tuesday next week, to be adjourned, the Home Office said on Thursday.
Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks, has had his passport confiscated by immigration officials when he arrived at Melbourne Airport last week.
Scots computer hacker Gary McKinnon is set to avoid extradition and be tried in Britain, the Scottish Sunday Express can reveal. The 43-year-old
A security breach that has compromised the credit and debit cards of recent customers at the Mellow Mushroom in Warner Robins is believed to have occurred outside the restaurant, police and the restaurant
The Pentagon would consider a military response in the case of a cyber attack against the US, a defence official said on Wednesday. Asked about the possibility of using military force after a cyber assault, James Miller, under secretary of defence for policy, said: "Yes, we need to think about the potential for responses that are not limited to the cyber domain."
Yesterday, I hosted a panel at the Cloud Computing summit focused on cloud security for the federal government. The panel was made up of some smart folks: Alex Hart from VMware, Bob Wambach from EMC and one of the primary authors of the Cloud Security Alliance guidelines, Chris Hoff from Cisco.
A proposed US congressional bill to regulate the collection of personal data is being almost universally panned, with privacy advocates arguing it's inadequate and pro-business groups saying it goes too far.
Three Web sites belonging to the U.S. Department of the Treasury have been hacked to attack visitors with malicious software, security vendor AVG says.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology will spearhead the national cybersecurity workforce development and awareness campaign. As part of the federal government's Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, much of which was recently declassified, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has been enlisted to spearhead a new nationwide cybersecurity education initiative, the White House and Department of Commerce announced.
A federal appeals court is blessing the legal process by which the recording industry and other content owners unmask the identities of alleged peer-to-peer copyright infringers.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has criticized California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team for raiding the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen. Police last week served a search warrant at the residence, seizing Chen's computers and documents as part of an investigation into the saga surrounding the leaked iPhone prototype.
The US government has released open source code that it has been working on. In an unusual move for government transparency, the White House is letting developers get their mitts on its open source code. The US executive branch has been working on its custom code as part of its ongoing efforts to "develop an open platform for Whitehouse.gov."
A general appointed by Barack Obama to ready US defences against cyber attacks has disclosed an alarming increase in activity by hackers and foreign countries, amounting to hundreds of thousands of attempted infiltrations daily.
Windows, Mac OS and even Linux don't quite cut it when it comes to security in the eyes of University of Illinois at Chicago researchers, who are building an operating system from scratch designed to safeguard computers and applications.
On Tuesday in Washington, DC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the FCC lacks authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks.
Although the United States likely has the best cyberwar capabilities in the world, "that offensive prowess cannot make up for the weaknesses in our defensive position," one-time presidential advisor Richard Clarke argues in his forthcoming book Cyber War.
The last of the US warrantless wiretapping cases has come to a rather surprising and abrupt finish. Judge Vaughn Walker hearing the case formerly known as Al-Haramain vs Bush has ruled for the plaintiffs and against the US government on a motion for summary judgment, essentially telling the government it had no case.
Billions of dollars and loads of personal information are involved in the current heavy tax season managed by Internal Revenue Service (IRS). IRS extensively depends on computerized systems to support its financial and mission-related operations. In a latest report by Government Accountability Office (GOA) it is disconcerting to see that Internal Revenue Service (IRS) fails to secure private information.
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