U.S. defense technologies put at risk by bureaucratic turf wars: GAO
Weapons and other defense-related technologies are in danger of falling into the wrong hands, according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office.
California gets a handle on IT with on-demand PPM software
California’s Office of the State CIO is using Métier’s WorkLenz PPM to reduce technology costs while producing more projects with fewer resources.
Cybersecurity gets a seat on new Homeland Security Advisory Council
Black Hat and DEFCON founder Jeff Moss is among the new members on the advisory council, and expects cybersecurity to get a higher profile in DHS.
Latest version of Digital Signature Standard expands key sizes, adds security
The Commerce Department has given final approval to FIPS 186-3, which strengthens requirements for the cryptographic algorithms used for digital signatures.
Asigra launches FIPS-certified cloud backup platform
Asigra’s latest version of its backup software is FIPS-140-certified and lets users backup data to a private, public or hybrid cloud.
NOAA to build new satellite ops center
NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service will operate from the new facility when it opens in September 2010.
ICANN, VeriSign, agencies collaborate on securing the Internet's root DNS
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, VeriSign, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and NIST will engage in a joint effort to secure the Internet’s root domain name system.
Security pros find cyberspace review lacking
Industry security experts say the Cyberspace Policy Review could use greater detail on identifying threats, offering legal protection for security and the extent of powers held by the cybersecurity coordinator.
William Jackson | Score one for the good guys in battle against spam
A temporary restraining order taking a rogue Internet service provider offline could mean we might see a little less spam in our inboxes, for now.
Does parallel processing require new languages?
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency funds development of new programming languages, an approach others question.
Sectéra smart phone gets NSA certification
Sectéra Edge smart phone wins SCIP certification from the National Security Agency.
GAO: IRS halts development of Customer Account Data Engine
According to the Government Accountability Office, the IRS has suspended development of an automated account management program because of increasing complexity, despite an increase in the number of tax returns filed electronically.
White House preparing Data.gov 2.0
White House officials plan to release Version 2.0 of its new government data portal, Data.gov, with expanded tagging capabilities in the next two months.
Best practices for getting Java to work for multicore processors
The method Java offers programmers to work with multicore processors is tricky and can easily lead to error, but software expert Jonas Bonér has a few alternative ways of writing Java programs to avoid those pitfalls.
Federal IT security recommendations released in final NIST draft
The latest draft of this revision of Special Publication 800-53 contains security controls for national security as well as other IT systems, and was developed in conjunction with the military and intelligence communities.
Microsoft, Citrix, HP and Intel team up for Power IT Down Day
Microsoft Corp. will join Citrix, Hewlett-Packard and Intel to encourage government and industry to be responsible with energy consumption on the second annual Power IT Down Day.
Windows 7 arriving in October
Microsoft vice president announces this October 22 as the date that the next-generation Windows OS will be released.
(ISC)2 offers live instruction online
Students can attend CBK review class—with live instruction—online.
Security strengthened for .org domain
Implementation of DNSSEC in the .org domain is the first since the .gov domain was signed in February and marks the beginning of a beta-test phase before the service is rolled out to domains within the zone.
Data location not the overriding factor in cloud security
Policy-makers should worry more about issues of access, rather than location, cloud guru argues.
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