Narilam database malware found in Iran strictly business
Iran's CERT refutes early speculation that the worm could be linked to Stuxnet, Flame and Duqu.
Data-driven government's goal: Personalized service
Agencies need to create a tech strategy that supports convergence of cloud, big data, mobility and Web services, a Justice CTO says.
Are rumors of BlackBerry's death greatly exaggerated?
The National Transportation Safety Board is the latest agency to drop BlackBerrys for iPhones, but you might not want to shovel dirt on RIM just yet.
NEC releases three new eco-friendly LCD projectors
The M Series projectors, which save on power but not on image, are designed for classroom and conference room work.
WipeDrive 7 adds remote erasing, Win 8 support
The latest version of WhiteCanyon's software also can manage file deletion over redundant RAID drives.
8 reasons agency IT will change course in 2013
Next year is likely to be a tipping point when agencies will have to make landmark decisions about the types of client machines they use.
Arkansas eases students' path to college financial aid
The Arkansas Department of Education created "YOUniversal," a financial aid system that helps students determine scholarship eligibility and streamlines the financial assistance application process.
After theft, NASA orders laptops encrypted, but is that enough?
Software encryption of laptop hard drives containing sensitive information certainly raises the bar on security, but for hackers, it's just one more password to crack.
Mobile devices show low rate of malware infections
Despite the growing number of malicious apps for Android devices, researchers at Georgia Tech found a surprisingly low rate of infections on phones in the United States.
Help is available for effective continuous monitoring
Continuous monitoring of IT systems can help maintain and improve security, but it is not necessarily easy to do. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published guidance to help with the job.
Continuous monitoring: A piece of the IT security puzzle
Continuous monitoring of IT systems is changing the way agencies approach federal security regs, but it can only be effective on fundamentally sound systems, say government security pros.
Energy opens datasets, APIs to developers
The Energy Department announced several new datasets and APIs, which will be hosted in cloud-based servers.
Symantec broadens encryption options for file-sharing, mobile devices
The company's new products allow users to upload and view encrypted files in the popular Dropbox file-sharing service, and access encrypted e-mail from mobile devices.
Attunity offers a path to secure file sharing with Hadoop
Seamless integration lets organizations move data in and out of Hadoop for improved business intelligence and analytics.
Supply chain threats 'hard to detect, expensive to fix'
A House panel is worried about the intrusion of Chinese manufacturers into the U.S. telecom market, but despite growing concerns over the security of the nation's IT supply chain, remedies remain difficult to find.
High-performance confab runs super-fast network, temporarily
In order to share results at the SC12 conference in Salt Lake City, volunteers from government, academia and industry designed and built SCinet, which links to many of the world's leading research networks.
Stalwart poised to make asset management easier
Northrop Grumman's Stalwart is a Web-based system that allows users to operate from any location or device. Stalwart can operate in the cloud or within an organization's data center.
The Petraeus principle: There is (almost) no email anonymity
Maintaining anonymity online is difficult, but there are steps goverment users can take — and missteps they can avoid.
Agency public alerts could now show up with Google searches
Google adds weather, safety and even Amber alerts to its search and mapping applications as part of its Public Alerts service that other agencies can take part in.
Test drive: BlackBerry 10 has the features for work/life balance
Centralized messaging, integrated calendar, predictive text and segregated work and personal functions are aimed at helping RIM maintain a hold in the enterprise.
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