'Guinea pigs' try top-level Common Criteria tests
The National Information Assurance Partnership has OK'd the first product evaluations at the highest level of the international Common Criteria IT security standards.
Cyber Eye: Wanted, dead or alive: malicious coders
Microsoft this month added an arrow to the quiver in the global war against malicious code by promising a six-figure payout for information leading to the conviction of whoever coded Blaster and SoBig.
CIO survey: FISMA is expensive but effective
The government is spending billions of dollars certifying and accrediting systems under the Federal Information Security Management Act, according to a survey of agency CIOs and chief security officers.<br>
Army assesses state's LAN security
New Jersey IT officials are confident in the security of the Garden State Network'a WAN connecting 16 state agencies. But the agencies' individual LANs caused chief technology officer Steven Dawson some concern.
Terrorism futures market gets second lease on life
The Policy Analysis Market in terrorism futures that created such a stir that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency dropped it like a hot potato in July is back. <br>
DOD plans central office for issuing smart cards
The Defense Department late next year will open a new central facility to hand out Common Access smart cards to recruits and new personnel at very remote sites.<br>
New worm variant targets identity data
A variant of the MiMail worm became widespread today, trying to steal personal and financial information from users of an online payment service.<br>
NIST posts security control guidelines for comment
The National Institute of Standards and Technology yesterday released an initial public draft of recommended security controls for federal information systems.<br>
In-Q-Tel seals deal for monitoring app
The CIA's venture capital arm negotiates a license for event detection and response software to help track information in multiple databases.<br>
Handheld development tool gets FIPS nod
A developer toolkit created by Certicom Corp. has been validated for use with Palm OS 4.1 under the Federal Information Processing Standard required for federal use of cryptographic modules.
DHS plans cybersecurity summit
The Homeland Security Department plans to announce details of the upcoming Cyber Security Summit soon.
Effort to compromise Linux kernel foiled
A routine integrity check of Linux kernel source code last week discovered a Trojan horse that had been slipped into a copy of the open-source operating system.<br>
Kansas auditors crack 1,000 passwords
The Kansas Health and Environment Department has serious IT security and disaster recovery problems, the state's legislative auditor has found.<br>
VeriSign will issue security briefings
VeriSign Inc. has started issuing quarterly security briefings on the state of Internet usage, security and fraud trends.<br>
Microsoft puts a bounty on virus writers
Microsoft Corp. today announced rewards of $250,000 each for the arrest of the writers of the SoBig and Blaster worms that attacked millions of computers running the company's Windows operating systems earlier this year.<br>
Homeland Security demonstrates U.S. Visit
The initial version of an entry-exit screening system will capture digital images and fingerprints of travelers arriving with visas.<br>
OMB backs off plans for central authentication gateway
The administration is scrapping plans for its online E-Authentication gateway, which had been touted as a cornerstone of e-government.<br>
PADC shortcomings hinder free patch service
Limits on capabilities and available licenses have kept federal agencies from using the free Patch Authentication and Dissemination Capability offered by the Federal Computer Incident Response Center, according to the General Accounting Office.<br>
Feds plan for common IDs by 2006
The Federal Identity Credentialing Committee will develop governmentwide standards to make machine-readable IDs acceptable throughout the federal government by 2006.
Homeland Security issues RFI for Safecom
The Homeland Security Department released a request for information this week for Project Safecom, the initiative to connect wireless first-responder systems across federal, state and local agencies.<br>
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