Smart-phone app for vets with PTSD hits 5,000 downloads
A new smart-phone app designed for offer support to veterans and service members suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder has hit 5,000 downloads.
E-mail breach exposes SEC employees data
An unencrypted e-mail sent by a contractor at Interior's National Business Center exposed data on 4,000 SEC employees, but only for only about 60 seconds.
Hackers cancel industrial control system demo at DHS' request
A presentation on hacking SCADA systems at the TakeDown security conference was nixed after DHS and Siemens asked the researchers not to go ahead with the demo.
Google's handling of Android flaw should be a lesson for Sony
Where Sony dropped the ball on getting the word out about security, Google is racing to head off even the potential for problems with Android.
Microsoft has plans to cool its data center jets
Rick Bakken, senior director of data center evangelism at Microsoft, revealed May 18 at Tech-Ed in Atlanta what the next generation of Microsoft data centers will look like, including requiring less energy and costing less money.
Want to know what you spend on data centers? Start shutting them down.
The consolidation process gives administrators a look into the costs of running data centers that they might not otherwise get, a DHS IT official says.
DARPA seeks to build attack-resistant secure cloud
The Mission-oriented Resilient Clouds initiative would help ensure military cloud infrastructure is secure and could withstand a harmful cyber attack.
Upgrade shuts down Michigan's network
Michigan state employees couldn't access e-mail or network-based files during the outage.
Amazon's cloud may have been a cheap platform for PlayStation hack
The breach, in which attackers accessed personal data from more than 100 million customer accounts, is the first acknowledged time a cloud service has been used to wage an attack.
San Francisco to put e-mail in Microsoft's cloud
The city will migrate 60 departments and agencies to Microsoft Exchange Online over the next 12 months.
Is an 'alternate Internet' the only refuge from mounting threats?
An FBI official suggests that a separate domain that would allow attribution of activities could provide a level of security that has not been attained on the Internet.
Worm could expose personal info of unemployed to hackers
Thousands of unemployed people might have had their bank account and Social Security numbers exposed to hackers after a worm infected Massachusetts government computers.
The Taliban, like Charlie Sheen, ARE WINNING on Twitter
The Taliban begin an English Twitter feed, and we learn that they are winning — in their own minds.
Hackers to the rescue: 'Random' asks coders to make the world a better place
Random Hacks of Kindness hackathon will look for open-source solutions to disaster management and climate change challenges.
Microsoft adds support for CentOS
Microsoft announced May 16 that the company has added support for a Linux distribution to Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.
New York aims to be digital city upon a hill
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has set New York City on a course to become one of the leaders in open government at the state and local level.
With Boston app, potholes practically report themselves
SpeedBump lets motorists' phones detect and report jolts automatically. The city is offering $25,000 to the developer who can perfect it.
Can US get international cooperation on Internet conduct?
Recognizing that distributed systems require distributed action, the Obama administration calls for international cooperation to support an open, interoperable Internet but provides no timelines or milestones.
City law would ban texting ... while walking?
Honolulu wants to prevent people from texting or reading their iPads while crossing the street; California considers stricter privacy options for social networking sites.
Microsoft BPOS outages cause customers to question Exchange
Microsoft's cloud-based Business Productivity Online Suite network underwent multiple outages last week, according to complaints from customers.
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