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Many security workers feel that government regulations aimed at protecting IT networks from threats are working, according to new survey.
A recently issued Army white paper, "Fight the Network," provides a new framework for the Signal Regiment, the service's communications organization, as it changes to support lighter, more mobile warfighting units. Army information technology officials devised the document to help foster a different mind-set for communications personnel in defending and managing the service's networks, said Gordon Van Vleet, public affairs officer for the service's Network Enterprise Technology Command/Ninth Army Signal Command at Fort Huachuca, Ariz. Netcom officials oversee the operation, management and protection of the Army's networks.
Companies and advocacy groups opposed to the FBI's plan to make the Internet more accommodating to covert law enforcement surveillance are sharpening a new argument against the controversial proposal: that law enforcement's Internet spying capabilities are just fine as it is.
A US man has been jailed for six months for a 2001 attack on the web systems of space agency NASA which cost $200,000 to fix.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is having some homeland cyber security issues on its systems providing remote access to telecommuters, according to a newly-released report by the DHS Inspector General's office.
Attention to cybersecurity has gone from one extreme to the other. Soon after 9/11, the news media was filled with shrieking and arm-waving about "cyberterrorism." Eventually, sensible people ralized that the notion of cyberterrorism is just plain silly. Terrorists are interested in being terrifying, they want to set off bombs and send bodies flying and blood flowing.
The office in charge of cyber-security in the Department of Homeland Security is planning to continue moving ahead on the agenda the agency has already set.
A Canadian man was sentenced to seven years in a U.S. prison this week after admitting he led a sophisticated satellite TV piracy ring that produced and sold thousands of hacked smart cards in the U.S. and Canada.
Members of the House Select Homeland Security Committee have recommended establishing a new assistant secretary position within the Homeland Security Department to better integrate and coordinate cybersecurity issues.
Recently, there's been increased criticism of the federal government's efforts to secure the Internet. The September departure of Amit Yoran from the Department of Homeland Security was widely cited as indicative of problems that run deep, not just through DHS, but the entire government. While everyone agrees there's much work to do, it's important to recognize the accomplishments of the past few years.
As we celebrate the holiday season and prepare for the next round of legislation, a group of state and local governments has banded together to collect and distribute freely the costly software that normally runs taxpayers $100 billion annually. Called the Government Open Code Collaborative or GOCC.gov, this organization states that its members work together voluntarily to encourage "the sharing, at no cost, of computer code developed for and by government entities where the redistribution of this code is allowed".
The FBI's inability to recruit and keep the best available IT talent has proven to be one of the biggest challenges facing the government's Internet Crime Complaint Center (I3C), a senior official said Tuesday.
A U.S. computer security expert is suing the Japanese government for violation of his freedom of speech, alleging they censored him at a recent computer security conference, the plaintiff said at a news conference on Monday. The lawsuit is the first of its kind in Japan, according to his lawyer. . . .
Congress passed a bill Wednesday for $165 million in new supercomputing funding in the United States, a move that came a week after a report criticized current supercomputing as insufficient for the country's security needs. . . .
Foreigners entering the United States in three cities were fingerprinted, photographed and subjected to background checks Monday in a test of a program that will eventually be extended to every land border crossing nationwide. . . .
If you call the Stanislaus County administrative offices and ask for Richard Robinson, be sure to specify that you want to speak with the director of strategic business technology. If not, you most likely will get the county's CEO, who has the same name. When you reach the technology director, you will meet a former Accenture (Anderson Consulting) professional steeped in high-level consulting methodologies. . . .
The National Security Agency has posted a 109-page document on its Web site telling agencies how to securely install and use Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X Version 10.3.x operating system, code-named Panther. . . .
As Election Day played out in polls across the country Tuesday, its course was tracked--in minute detail--by Internet news sites, watchdog organizations and Webloggers, much as they had done most every day over the past several years.< . . .
The U.S. Secret Service Thursday announced arrests in eight states and six foreign countries of 28 suspected cybercrime gangsters on charges of identity theft, computer fraud, credit card fraud, and conspiracy. . . .
The Bush administration doesn't get it yet: Securing cyberspace will require real, coordinated accomplishments instead of diversions, token efforts and color-coded threat barometers. . . .
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