Clarke wants to know, where did we go wrong?
In the four years since the release of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace the U.S. lost its way, said former U.S. counterterrorism czar Richard A. Clarke.
AJAX security: Everything old is new again
Web 2.0 is the new big thing on the Internet, but it comes with many of the same vulnerabilities as the old Web 1.0.
The past is prologue at Black Hat Briefings
Botnets and browsers are sharing center stage at the Black Hat Briefings this week with rootkits and social engineering, as the conference explores more niches in IT security.
Crypto is no magic bullet for data protection
Cryptography can provide excellent security, but as with all security, it has limits and trade-offs.
Peripheral threats
Smart printing devices often are overlooked as weaknesses in network security, but HSPD-12 cards can help lock them down.
Report: E-gov puts pressure on security
The growth of interagency data sharing and public-facing services is putting new demands on IT security officials.
Essential information only
Agencies starting to produce data breach and notification procedures.
Library of Congress has new archive
The 415,000-square-foot Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation has state-of-the-art facilities for storage and restoration of library collections.
Advanced firewalls will lay ground for new generation
Lessons learned | Seattle's plan to add advanced firewall protection goes beyond security and bandwidth concerns.
Big hopes for small players
RoboCup is an annual competition hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology to promote development of robotics.
Technique | Network visibility
Seattle tests a new firewall appliance that enforces policy by application rather than port ' and finds out a lot about what employees are doing on the network.
William Jackson | That's one way to create demand for a solution
Commentary: A security company should be able to find a better way to promote its service than by sending out key drives loaded with malicious code.
GNU version of GPL gives feds a break
Under the newest version of the General Public License, agencies can let contractors use their in-house software without opening it up to the community.
Crypto standard up for review
Federal Information Processing Standard 140-3 is open for review.
E-gov changes IT security landscape
Interagency data sharing and public-facing services put new demands on government IT security officials.
How secure is your server?
Symantec reports a disturbing trend in recent months. It has detected phishing sites hosted on government URLs.
NIST releases revised FIPS crypto standard for review
The latest version of the Federal Information Processing Standard for cryptographic modules, FIPS 140-3, has been released for comment by NIST.
New digs for old treasures
Library of Congress redeploys ex-Federal Reserve bank vault as a high-capacity digital archive.
Saving the Earth one phone at a time
Agencies are finding monetary and environmental advantages to buying refurbished telecom equipment.
A one-stop shop for authentication?
Privaris has announced the beta release of a biometric-enabled token that it hopes will become a single alternative for multiple-access control systems.
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