Justice makes its case for $138 million to battle cybercrimes
Long before last month's sweeping denial-of-service attacks, the Justice Department had drafted plans to bolster its ability to fight cybercrime.
House Speaker Hastert sets up security team of GOP members
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) last month established a cybersecurity team of 18 senior Republicans who will use their committees as platforms to share information with other House lawmakers.
DOD reports no denial-of-service code on its servers
After a weeklong review, Defense Department systems administrators have reported that no DOD servers were used as unwitting hosts in the recent spate of denial-of-service attacks.
As e-commerce grows, feds keep an eye on privacy concerns
As security has moved to the center of the widening world of online government, privacy, like a persistent shadow, has followed. But while the two issues sometimes seem inseparable, information technology and privacy experts point out that they are not the same thing.
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Student aid office banks on trust
Around the Education Department's Office of Student Financial Assistance, it's known as 'the hairball.'
Microsoft releases first set of Win 2000 patches
The day after Microsoft Corp. launched Windows 2000 last month, early installers who had enabled the Critical Update Notification service received a splash-screen message about the first fixes for the new operating system.
Distributed denial-of-service attacks put e-commerce on the line
Alan Paller founded the SANS Institute in 1992 as a cooperative research and educational organization for the people who secure and manage information systems. The institute now has more than 96,000 participants.
House passes bill to spend $6.9 billion on IT research projects
The House recently passed a bill that would authorize the government to spend $6.9 billion on information technology research over the next five years.
As the need for cybersecurity comes into focus, agencies hope money will follow
As agencies move beyond year 2000 fixes to focus on cybersecurity, information technology executives hope one lesson learned is that the government should put money where the pronouncements are.
CFO sets a clear goal for AID's new financial system: It must work
At the Agency for International Development, the chief financial officer is hoping that 13'the number of years AID has been building a new financial system'is a lucky number.
FAA runs shakedown cruise of its approach system
After four years of work and one false start, the Federal Aviation Administration has installed its new radar airport approach system at two airports.
GSA begins second set of local-service buys
The General Services Administration has awarded Bell Atlantic Corp. and AT&T Corp. contracts worth $40 million for local telephone service in Buffalo, N.Y.
FTS chief is angry over slow telecom cutovers
Saying he's fed up with the slow transition to the government's new telecommunications contracts, Federal Technology Service commissioner Dennis J. Fischer last week warned incumbent contractors that foot-dragging now could cost them future government business.
EPA's Slaymaker steps down after 36 years
Jerry Slaymaker, a high-ranking information technology executive at the Environmental Protection Agency, has left EPA after more than 36 years of service.
Lawmaker asks Navy to delay intranet buy
The Navy's $10 billion intranet services procurement has come under fire again, this time from the chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Readiness.
Agencies face a range of new challenges in protecting their systems against attack
The year 2000 date code repair effort is over, and everybody's riding high. All went well. All those long hours paid off. The systems were fixed and there were no major glitches. Congressman Horn is off your back. You're feeling pretty good.
Security: the next frontier
Recent hacker attacks on popular Internet sites might not be cause for panic among federal information technology managers, but they do heighten concerns that expensive virtual private network, firewall and encryption security tools won't prevent intruders from erasing key files or stealing mission-critical information. And with good reason.
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Today's poster child for the Internet-sparked revolution is the Federal Register. Will the Register survive in its current form?
PACKET RAT
No sooner did the cyberrodent discover that his offspring had accidentally let loose the artificial-intelligence agent from his household automation LAN than he suspected HAL of mounting the infamous service-denial attacks on high-profile electronic commerce sites [GCN, Feb. 21, Page 54].
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