William Jackson | Vote for anything but digital
Commentary: States should wait on digital voting until technology standards take root.
Getting smart IDs to first responders
A group of smart-card ID technology firms are offering a more affordable option to first responders.
Worm outbreak yields bumper crop of spam
A 24-hour outbreak of the StormWorm in mid-August apparently was responsible for a 30 percent spike in spam two days later.
EAC halts certification of e-voting system
A manufacturer of electronic voting systems and a pair of certification laboratories have landed in hot water with the Election Assistance Commission for breaking the rules of the certification process.
EAC to release draft voting-system guidelines
The Election Assistance Commission expects to release a major revision of its Voluntary Voting System Guidelines for comment shortly.
William Jackson | Can't we all just get along?
Commentary: ISO concluded a round of fast-track voting Sept. 2 on a proposed new standard on open documents. When the ballots were counted, Microsoft had lost its initial bid.
Lessons learned: Authentication is the key
To acheive a 100 percent e-mail delivery rate for the FBI, GovDelivery partnered with Goodmail Systems, which provides a service that cryptographically certifies that a message is trustworthy.
A world where you're in charge
GCN Insider | Galaxiki lets you create your very own universe.
Technique | Through the filter
The FBI uses an e-mail delivery service to handle its popular e-mail blasts ' and make sure they don't get snagged as spam.
IPv6 ice breaker
Lockheed Martin begins a controlled transition to IPv6, planning to pass on lessons learned to agencies.
NIST issues guide to securing Web services
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a 128-page guide to help organizations understand the security challenges of Web services inservice-oriented architecture.
New computer security guides available
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has updated its security guidelines for dealing with active content.
U.S. approves Office Open XML standard, with some reservations
The U.S. voting representative on international IT standards has voted for conditional approval of the Office Open XML standard.
Might as well dive in, the water is going to keep rising anyway
Seems as if it's always something. First it was diskettes, then it was e-mail, and now it's instant messaging delivering the malicious code to our enterprises.
NIST issues guidelines on securing Web services
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a 128-page guide to help organizations understand the security challenges of Web services in service-oriented architecture.
Lockheed to begin IPv6 transition as 'pathfinder' for government clients
Lockheed Martin to implement Version 6 of the Internet Protocols on segments of its Global Vision Network to help develop a road map for government customers' IPv6 transition.
William Jackson | E-voting machines still not reliable
Commentary: Electronic voting systems still have too many holes to be trusted.
One more file format we can't trust
GCN Insider | Excel, PDF spam clutters inboxes
E-mail you can bank on
Technique | How the Conference of State Banking Regulators developed a secure e-mail system for its far-flung regulators.
IPv6 passes first test on applications
InterOperability Lab encounters a few glitches, but programs mostly worked.
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