Obama picks cybersecurity coordinator
Howard Schmidt is President Barack Obama’s choice for cybersecurity chief, the administration announced today.
Last-minute gifts for the IT geek
Whether you are a geek bearing gifts or a FOG shopping for one, here are a few ideas on what might make an appropriate, memorable and possibly even valuable present.
National cybersecurity coordinator choice widely applauded
Industry insiders say the breadth and depth of the appointee's experience in both government and the private sector bodes well for his performance in the challenging job of coordinating the government’s cybersecurity policy.
D.C. snow day could be telework learning experience
The unexpected closure of federal offices in Washington D.C. today could be a day for learning the ins and outs of successful teleworking, suggests the director of a teleworking group.
EU settlement will alter Microsoft's stance on interoperability
Microsoft provided more details about its settlement with the European Commission (EC), pledging to implement a threefold approach to interoperability.
Tremors generate tweets in new USGS earthquake program
The Twitter Earthquake Detector (TED) program is an exploratory effort intended to gather real-time earthquake-related messages, by having people who actually feel a tremor or observe its effects to tweet their observations.
Cybersecurity picture growing rosier?
Former US-CERT director Mischel Kwon says that despite the growing number of attacks and threats, progress is being made in securing U.S. IT systems.
VA security scholarship program delayed until 2011
A program enacted in 2006 to help the Veterans Affairs Department beef up its information security expertise by offering financial assistance to doctoral students and those who recently earned doctorates still is more than a year away from awarding its first scholarship, according to a report made to Congress.
Encryption of Predator video feeds will take time
It could take as long as five years before video feeds from Predator and Reaper drones are fully encrypted and U.S. forces are able to keep enemy forces from intercepting the information, reports Ellen Nakashima in the Washington Post.
Hackers with political agenda bring down Twitter
Twitter says attack on site's Domain Name System redirected users to a cryptic anti-American message from the "Iranian Cyber Army."
Office 2010 takes aim at malware threats
Microsoft announced "Office file validation," a security feature in Office 2010 designed to block malware associated with older Office binary file formats.
Droid review draws loyalist debate
Few products seem to draw out more passion and partisanship than that exhibited by smart phone owners—and especially among iPhone aficionados. So it wasn’t surprising to see readers jamming up the comments box on GCN.com after our review of the new Droid smart phone by Motorola being offered by Verizon.
I saw it at the movies
Sometimes you just gotta suspend your disbelief, sit back with some popcorn and enjoy a tech-themed movie, even if Hollywood gets it all wrong.
HP extends public, private cloud portfolio
Hewlett-Packard this week bolstered its private and public cloud portfolio, looking to extend its reach to enterprises of all sizes.
Hands on with Army Go Mobile gear
The real potential of the Go Mobile program is in providing military personnel access to their AKO/DKO accounts wirelessly. The days of luggable laptops might be over soon, replaced in this case with smart phones that pack almost as much computing power.
IBM plans to acquire business process software firm
Acquisition target makes products for business process management.
iPhone: Enterprise-worthy, perhaps, but secure enough for feds?
The latest iPhone operating system is more secure, but doubts linger about whether it can rival the BlackBerry for government-level real security.
Verizon lab to demo the greener side of telecom
Verizon Business opens a lab to show feds how optical local-area networks can help make buildings greener by reducing the energy needs of their networks.
Zero-day vulnerabilities share little in common except for the threat they pose
Zero-day vulnerabilities take many forms; the one thing they have in common is that the hackers know about them before the vendors and users, guaranteeing a window of vulnerability.
Military Predator video intercepted by Iraqis
Iraqi insurgents have used inexpensive off-the-shelf software to intercept video feeds from Predator unmanned aerial vehicles during the past year, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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