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The former privacy officer of Internet advertising giant DoubleClick will be the Department of Homeland Security's first privacy czar, Bush administration officials said. The administration will appoint Nuala O'Connor Kelly to the privacy post, where she would be responsible for . . .
The new Department of Homeland Security lacks the resources and expertise to execute the core elements of the Bush administration's cybersecurity plan, the president's former cybersecurity adviser told Congress today. . .
Privacy on the Internet is the focus of a new Senate bill and an upcoming House joint hearing. In both cases, the concern is with the vulnerability of personally identifiable information and the increasing ease that such information can be obtained . . .
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to complete an initial inventory of its entire IT infrastructure by June -- a critical step toward the ultimate creation of a nationwide architecture for homeland security, said Steve Cooper, the department's CIO. . . .
Telecommunications giant Sprint announced plans Tuesday to launch a private IP network aimed at security-conscious U.S. government agencies by late June. The new network, which doesn't yet have a name, will mimic Sprint's SprintLink enterprise-class, IP backbone network and offer . . .
This is the second part of a four-part series looking at U.S. information security laws and the way those laws affect security professionals. In the first part of this series, we looked at the legal framework for protection of information systems . . .
The Justice Department and the FBI ask regulators for expanded technical capabilities to intercept Voice Over IP communications... and anything else that uses broadband. The FBI and Justice Department are worried that Voice Over IP (VoIP) applications may become safe . . .
President Bush has signed an executive order that explicitly gives the government the power to classify information about critical infrastructures such as the Internet. Bush late Tuesday changed the definition of what the government may classify as confidential, secret and . . .
Government officials and private organizations alike are reviewing their vulnerability disclosure processes after several incidents over the past 10 days exposed major shortcomings in the way new bugs are handled. . .
The Defense Department is continuing, and perhaps has stepped up, its electronic psychological operations campaign directed at the upper echelons of the Iraqi military now that hostilities have begun. . .
As the Department of Homeland Security urges Americans to be on high alert for potential acts of cyberterrorism, many computer security experts say military conflict doesn't change the fact that the Net is already a pretty dangerous place. "When it . . .
The Bush administration on Tuesday said it had taken a number of steps to upgrade the security of the nation's financial markets against possible terrorist attacks. As part of that effort, Treasury Department officials said that arrangements had been made for . . .
After air raid sirens went off across Baghdad, anti-aircraft fire and explosions were heard in the capital at dawn Thursday. Moments after the explosions began, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters in Washington, "The opening stages of the disarmament of the Iraqi regime have begun.". . .
On the brink of an almost certain U.S. attack on Iraq, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge has ordered America's terrorist alert raised to orange and increased security at ports and land borders, airports, critical infrastructures and across the Internet. . .
A Pakistani security agency has launched a special wing to combat cyber crimes in part because the country had to rely on U.S. investigators to trace e-mails sent by the kidnappers of American journalist Daniel Pearl a year ago. "The purpose of establishing the National Response Center for Cyber Crimes is to stop misuse of the Internet and trace those involved in cyber-related crimes," Iftikhar Ahmad, spokesman for Pakistan's Interior Ministry, told the Associated Press on Wednesday. . . .
As the new Department of Homeland Security swallows nearly every cybersecurity office in the U.S. government, high-profile leaders are jumping ship, and analysts worry that only meager funding and muddled goals remain. . . .
It's existed for less than two weeks, but analysts are already concerned that the newly-formed Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity unit may not grow up to be the powerhouse of efficiency and expertise it was billed as. . . .
The National Security Agency has signed a five-year contract with the International Systems Security Consortium to develop and administer a new test for information security professionals interested in working for NSA. . . .
The White House and the new Department of Homeland Security have begun in earnest the process of implementing the plan to secure the nation's critical networks--starting with extensive changes in the federal security infrastructure. . . .
Over the next several years, the Department of Defense is phasing in smart cards to replace old DoD identity badges for all of its personnel. The new cards, called common access cards (CACs) will still hold the picture and name of . . .
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