Human error is cause of N.M. election glitch
Election officials in New Mexico's Bernalillo County, the state's most populous, found that 67,000 absentee and early-voting ballots were incorrectly counted following the Nov. 7 presidential election.
Rep. Horn must give up his IT subcommittee chairmanship
A House leadership term limit will push Congress' leading information technology overseer, Rep. Steve Horn, from his perch as chairman of the Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology.
House passes IT security bill
The House late last month passed a bill designed to protect sensitive but unclassified government systems.
SSA negotiates security BPA
The Social Security Administration has negotiated a blanket purchasing agreement with Science Applications International Corp. for critical infrastructure protection support services.
VA emphasizes IT protection
The Veterans Affairs Department stood down its computer systems this month to stress the importance of security awareness at the federal government's largest civilian agency.
Census begins its PKI rollout
Within the next year, 4,000 to 5,000 field workers at 12 regional Census Bureau offices will start using public-key infrastructure technology to protect confidential survey data on notebook computers.
DOD directive will speed acquisition process
The Defense Department is revamping the way it buys weapons and technology to speed procurement and underscore product performance and interoperability.
U.S., Norwegian navies run logistics, comm test
U.S. and Norwegian naval forces last week were on computer-enhanced alert as they worked through the logistics of a joint maritime operation against a fictitious enemy.
JFMIP to issue new guidance
The Joint Financial Management Improvement Program next week plans to release guidelines for federal property management systems.
Walter Reed boosts call center
The Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington is upgrading its Patient Appointment Service Center's interactive voice response system with the uniQue suite of products from Microlog Corp. of Germantown, Md.
Clinton signs flexible-hiring bill
Federal contract employees can substitute training and experience for a four-year degree under a bill signed into law late last month.
SSA lets retirees apply online
The Social Security Administration early this month began offering retirees the opportunity to apply for benefits online.
OPM increases salaries for IT systems workers
Some 33,000 federal systems workers across the country will get pay raises under special salary changes that will take effect in January.
Hackers' weapons for attack keep pace with technological advances
As the tools for building distributed applications improve, so do malicious developers' arsenals. The range of attacks available to those with idle hands, political goals or perhaps more sinister agendas is now larger than ever. Generally, the types of attack fall into the following categories:
VIRUS HUNTERS
It has been 12 years since the first real Internet virus scare. On Nov. 2, 1988, Cornell University graduate student Robert Morris unleashed a 'worm' program that used e-mail protocols to propagate itself across the Internet.
Army swapping out software for tactical messaging
The Army is switching its e-mail software for tactical messaging from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange 5.5, and hoping to save time and money in the future.
Army lures people to portal
The modern Army cannot survive without knowledge management technology, said Maj. Gen. Steven W. Boutelle, because 'we are so thin and move so fast.'
BRIEFING BOOK
Stern warning. In the wake of the Oct. 12 bombing of the destroyer USS Cole in Yemen, Defense Secretary William S. Cohen called for foreign defense ministers to take up the fight against terrorism, particularly in cyberspace.
COMMUNICATIONS: NEW PRODUCT
An integrated access device from Cabletron Systems Inc. of Rochester, N.H., puts voice, video and data on the same asynchronous transfer mode WAN.
Experts warn feds to perpare for wireless computing
As if systems administrators didn't have enough on their plates, another radical change is coming.
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