Smart passports will soon face up to tough scrutiny
A year from this fall, Americans will begin to travel with the State Department's new intelligent passports.
Cyber Eye: Time to get serious, Marcus Sachs says
'The media needs to get the message out,' Marcus H. Sachs told attendees at last month's Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas. 'There is a lot of hyperbole out there' about breaches but little real improvement in cybersecurity, he said.
Hackers compromise Navy purchase cards
Hackers recently broke into a Navy system and gained access to 13,000 Navy purchase cards, according to Defense Department officials who are investigating the incident. <br>
Patch management on the way for VA
The Veterans Affairs Department expects to roll out an aggressive patch management system over the next year, the department's head of cyber and information security said Wednesday. <br>
States will spur use of smart IDs
Steven Humphreys has been chief executive officer of smart-card software vendor ActivCard Corp. since 2001. Before joining the Fremont, Calif., company he headed smart-card manufacturer SCM Microsystems Inc., also of Fremont, and was president of Caere Corp. before its acquisition by ScanSoft Inc. of Peabody, Mass.
Odd Web traffic alerts Va. county
State and local government officials who have noticed strange activity on their computer systems could learn from the experiences of Arlington County, Va.
Defense to test ID-checking prototype
The Defense Department in October will begin testing a prototype credential-checking system. <br>
Emergency telecom programs gave responders access
Priority services operated by the National Communications System gave government officials and emergency personnel access to landline and wireless telecommunications during last week's blackout. <br>
Preparations aided response to massive outage; tracking the cause 'could take months'
State and local officials across the Northeast said today that the emergency response methods they upgraded after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks helped them respond to yesterday's massive power outage. <br>
Los Alamos to study weapons, HIV virus with Linux clusters
Los Alamos National Laboratory yesterday announced a deal to acquire two Linux clusters, one for modeling nuclear weapons and the other for unclassified research in biology, chemistry and engineering. <br>
Army's Noonan joins consultancy
A former senior intelligence officer has become a principal at Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. of McLean, Va., to be responsible for management and technical consulting with national intelligence agencies. <br>
NMCI adds video, security software
The Navy-Marine Corps Intranet's lead contractor, EDS Corp., this week certified the VCON ViGO personal desktop videoconferencing appliance as the first visual communications device under NMCI. <br>
FBI shakes up security in wake of IG report on spy
FBI director Robert S. Mueller III orders security reforms that include sweeping IT policy changes.<br>
NIST releases guidelines for IT security metrics
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released its final version of guidelines for developing metrics to help ensure agencies meet IT security requirements.<br>
Tennessee Corrections staff soon can avoid doubting TOMIS
The Tennessee Corrections Department is giving its clunky mainframe systems a new Web front end. <br>
Worm targeting Windows vulnerability spreads rapidly
A worm exploiting a recently announced vulnerability in many Microsoft Windows operating systems is quickly infecting thousands of unprotected computers.<br>
Md. orders e-voting review
SAIC will assess Diebold's electronic voting system for Maryland after a university's report raises security concerns, sparking debate.<br>
Software patching gets automated
Whenever the Defense Department's Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center sends a vulnerability alert, each DOD systems administrator must acknowledge it and respond with a plan for closing the hole.
Security researchers decry electronic voting systems
Fresh concerns from government, academic and industry officials about existing electronic voting systems.<br>
OMB guides agencies to meet IT security law
New guidelines released for evaluating information technology security.
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