CYBEREYE: Making sense of data protection laws
Despite election year distractions, it is beginning to look like Congress might pass personal data security legislation this year. Both the public and industry are clamoring for a federal standard for protecting personal data and at least one House bill, the Data Accountability and Trust Act, has made it out of committee.
E-voting technology gets a road test
Lingering questions about security and reliability could mean electronic voting is still not ready for the national spotlight. Still, one company is taking its technology out on the road in preparation for the big time.
Homes for copyright orphans
The Copyright Office is proposing legislation that would make it easier for libraries, universities and archives, including the Library of Congress, to digitize collections that contain 'orphan works.'
Catch a .wav
If you're on your third copy of the White Album or you can't find a phonograph needle to play your Elmore James 78s, you can understand the plight of the Library of Congress: A collection of nearly 3 million recordings in every format from wax cylinders, to disks and tapes, to CDs, most of them playable only on obsolete equipment.
PIV cards on the horizon
Six months from the deadline for issuing interoperable smart federal ID cards, standards and specifications are in place. Now the heavy lifting is about to begin.
Better organization, focus needed for cybersecurity
The government needs to establish clear lines of authority and clarify responsibility for an effective national information assurance policy, according to a former presidential adviser.
IT security checklist focuses on consequences of breaches
A contractor for the Homeland Security Department has released a draft cybersecurity checklist intended to help enterprises focus on real-world consequences of security breaches.
Interoperable communications needs common language
First responders in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., have standardized on common 800MHz communications systems. What remains to be done in establishing interoperable systems is the unglamorous job of getting everyone on the same page.
Symantec to leverage Intel's new virtual environment for security
Symantec Corp. of Cupertino, Calif., on Monday announced that it is building a virtual security solution that will use Intel Corp.'s new vPro technology to provide a layer of security outside of the desktop operating system.
FEC experiments with utility computing
The Federal Election Commission is dipping its toe into utility computing, in which IT services are provisioned from a pool of resources rather than from a dedicated infrastructure.
Software insecurity: Plenty of blame to go around
The reason software so often is not secure is the fault either of developers or of users'or both.
PKI is hard, but doesn't have to be this hard
A pair of experts at the 2006 International Conference on Network Security agreed that, with PKI, the perfect often is the enemy of the good.
Wiretaps vulnerable to phreaking
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found that it is not at all difficult for bad guys to outwit law enforcement wiretaps on their phone lines.
DHS still gearing up response to cyberthreats
The nation faces a real threat to its critical infrastructure while the Homeland Security Department still struggles to develop the systems needed to assess and respond to those risks, the department's head of cybersecurity said today.
Cybereye | Time to focus on security, not compliance
It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Federal Information Security Management Act is not working. I am not a big fan of the A-through-F report cards handed out each year by the House Government Reform Committee, because they are not very meaningful indicators either of FISMA compliance or actual IT security posture. But after a five-year drumbeat of Ds and Fs, it's hard to argue that much real progress is being made.
Please sign on the digital line
In the latest sign that the public sector hasn't exhausted all the possibilities of e-government, Pennsylvania recently began the nation's first state-sanctioned program to let notaries digitally sign electronic documents.
Eugene Kaspersky | When Criminals Stalk the Internet
Eugene Kaspersky was working for the Soviet Defense Ministry in the late 1980s when his computer became infected with the Cascade virus. His fascination with the malicious program eventually led to commercialization of what became the Kaspersky Anti-Virus tool. Today he's head of antivirus research for Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, which he co-founded in 1997.
San Francisco selects team for municipal WiFi net
San Francisco has selected a team headed by EarthLink Inc. of Atlanta and Google Inc. to build a citywide WiFi network that is expected to provide free and low-cost Internet access for the city.
Trends in botnets: smaller, smarter
Some recent statistics on e-mail traffic provide more evidence of the trend toward smarter, more targeted online attacks.
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