New threats emerge from once-trusted protocols and services
Although hackers continue to exploit known vulnerabilities with tried-and-true tricks, new threats are coming from vulnerabilities in services such as DNS and SSL that we have trusted for years.
Survey confirms what you probably thought about Twitter
A survey by Pear Analytics of 2,000 tweets produces an unsurprising result: There's a lot of babble on Twitter.
HTML 5: What's new about it?
HTML 5 will maintain backward compatibility with all former versions, while cleaning up some ambiguities of the previous version of the markup language. It will also offer a number of new elements, or markup symbols, that can more precisely define the elements of a Web page.
Social-media sites becoming channels for botnets
Bad guys have found a new use for Twitter and other social-media sites: distributing malware to unsuspecting followers who download a password-stealing program.
SAP heads to Terremark cloud
SAP, an enterprise resource planning software widely used by government agencies, is being adapted for use in a cloud platform supported by Terremark Worldwide and VMware.
SafeStick secure USB flash drive supports media files
BlockMaster offers fast drive with AES 256-bit encryption.
IRS launches YouTube, iTunes sites
The IRS launched a YouTube video site and an iTunes podcast site filled with content that provides taxpayers with information about tax provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Apps for America 2 finalists announced
Finalists in the competition have developed applications that show how government datasets can be mixed and formatted in such a way that make them more easily accessible and understandable.
Microsoft: How to opt out of IE8
IT pros who use WSUS for automatic updates for roll ups via the update service will get IE 8 today. For those who don't want the upgrade, Microsoft offers these instructions ...
When visualizing data, beware of gratuitous rendering
When putting data into a graphical format, it's important to match form with the content.
The evolving reader forum
The opportunity for readers to post comments about the stories we publish makes for a worthwhile public forum about the issues surrounding a story.
Army uses a wiki to let personnel rewrite field manuals
The Army created a wiki to let any of its personnel offer rewrites to one of seven field manuals. If it works, many others could follow.
HTML 5 steps up
Does Microsoft's interest in the new version of HTML add some forward momentum?
Attacks underscore the limits of Twitter, Facebook
Social networking might provide useful business tools, but recent attacks are a reminder that they are not ready for mission-critical tasks.
Better procurement can feed transition to 21st-century federal IT, Kundra says
Recently, federal CIO Vivek Kundra met with reporters and editors from the 1105 Government Information Group, publisher of GCN, to talk about lines of business, the GSA storefront and other topics that affect the federal information technology landscape.
Pentagon hopes use of social media attracts younger audience to its Web site
Social media is the prominent feature on the new Defense Department's home page, which was launched today.
IE 8 earns high marks for security in reports
Microsoft is putting out the word that users of Internet Explorer 6 should upgrade to IE 8, primarily for security and standards-compliance reasons.
Security upgrades highlight DISA buying surge
The Defense Information Systems Agency plans to bolster security features embedded in its far-flung networks and data centers via several acquisition projects planned for the twilight of fiscal 2009.
Genen Soo-Hoo brings finer IT to N.Y.'s finest
Genen Soo-Hoo developed two enterprise apps for the New York City Police Department: One for the police academy and another for submitting crime tips via the Web.
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