California will revisit RFID restrictions
The California Assembly at press time was set to consider a partial ban on radio frequency identification that would allow the technology to be used for certain types of identification cards, but only if shield devices and other privacy protections are employed.
State, NIST disagree on biometrics
A digital photograph and contactless chip for electronic passport implementation would confirm the identity of the person carrying the document, a top State Department official said late last month in testimony before Congress.
Sabo slams liability shield for CAPPS II technology platform
Rep. Martin Olav Sabo said he is objecting now, a year after the protection was granted, because only recently has it come to his attention that Lockheed Martin's risk assessment platform may be utilized in other government programs.
DISA enlists SAIC for anti-spyware
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded a $6.9 million task order to Science Applications International Corp. to provide a Defense-wide, anti-spyware tool.
Honeynets provide sweet temptations to hackers
The concept of a honeypot or honeynet to lure intruders into an environment where they can be safely observed'and, perhaps, identified and caught'has been used for a number of years by the IT security community to gather information on hackers, vulnerabilities and exploits.
A DOD cyberplan aims to attract hackers like bees
Two of the Army's lead technologists propose to defend the Global Information Grid by using decoy networks and 'honey pots' to fool hackers.
GCN INSIDER: Good code, secure code; Security compliance in action; No Flash in the pan
Interesting pair of briefings early last month. In the dining room of Washington's Hay-Adams Hotel, Dale Fuller, CEO of Borland Software Corp., mapped out for a GCN editor (literally, in great detail, on ruled paper), the need for better software development processes in government.
EDITOR'S DESK: Data heists: Compliance remains the weakest link
The news last month that 40 million credit card accounts had potentially been compromised, and records for 200,000 had been stolen, was perhaps the most stunning example yet of the challenges of cybersecurity.
FBI readies data exchange rollouts
The FBI is poised to expand its Regional Data Exchange program from a pilot in the St. Louis area that began in February to a Seattle version set to launch Aug. 1 and then to more than a dozen other cities in the coming months.
DHS tests RFID technology for foot, vehicle traffic at entry points
The Homeland Security Department plans to install antennas at five locations to detect RFID chips embedded in travel documents carried by international visitors passing through U.S. ports of entry.
California to revisit RFID restrictions
An amendment to SB 682 would ban radio-frequency identification tags on driver's licenses, student IDs and library and health insurance cards, but allow them on access cards for individuals such as first responders, prison employees and detainees.
Air Force taps Raytheon for early warning radar contract
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon Co. a contract to provide an early warning surveillance radar system to Taiwan.
Spyware is affecting even the network's Dear Leader
With spyware becoming more of a security threat'given programs like 'Cool Web Search,' which uses rootkit-like exploits to work its way onto users' machines'the Rat has escalated his network security alert level to two shades above maroon.
Tectonic forces at the FBI
Only a couple of weeks after the Mark-Felt-was-Deep-Throat revelation came news of far more pressing im- portance to the FBI: The FBI director had agreed to share the selection of the bur- eau's intelligence chief with the director of national intelligence, currently John Negroponte.
NIST drafts rules to certify ID card makers
Draft guidelines have been released to help agencies verify that organizations issuing governmentwide identification cards are up to the job.
What is: The FBI cancels its 'Jeopardy' app?
The FBI is developing a new security training app to replace an earlier system based on the television quiz show 'Jeopardy.' The intelligence community developed the 'Jeopardy'-like computer security training system to impress on federal employees classified security protocols and other precautions, according to government security training specialists.
State tells lawmakers biometrics will ensure identity
A digital photograph and contactless chip for electronic passport implementation would ensure the identity of the person carrying the document, according to a top State Department official.
N.Y. controllers use new FAA system to reduce air space between transoceanic flights
An air traffic system that allows controllers to reduce space between aircraft flying over U.S. oceanic air space is now fully operational at the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center.
ICOM Act aims to improve first-responder communications
A bipartisan group of senators is co-sponsoring legislation to authorize $3.9 billion for a national architecture enabling first-responder agencies to communicate wirelessly.
The long arm of the Army's cybercrime unit
For three months last year, an Army soldier stationed in Afghanistan installed on more than 200 computers illegal software that captured users' keystrokes and, ultimately, caused about $25,000 in damage.
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