USDA centralizes online user ID authentication
In the last year, the Agriculture Department has connected 30 applications to a central authentication service that manages the online identities of USDA employees and customers alike.
Cyber Eye: Online ballot warnings should be heeded
The Defense Department responded predictably to analysts who criticized its online voting program for U.S. citizens stationed overseas.'We don't have any intention of stopping this,' DOD spokesman Glenn Flood said. 'The only 100 percent safe solution from a security standpoint is not to do it. That is not an option.'
Wireless minibars make debut in nation's capital
Government officials and foreign dignitaries staying at Washington's historic Willard Hotel soon will be able to get something besides Toblerone Bars and Coca-Cola from the minibars in their rooms.
Attack shuts down SCO site
A large-scale denial of service attack, apparently the result of the MyDoom worms, shut down the website of the SCO Group Inc. today.<br>
NIST e-authentication spec out for comment
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking public comments on its draft recommendations for electronic authentication.<br>
Microsoft sweetens reward as another worm strikes
A new version of the Mimail worm is making the rounds, this time phishing for victims' credit card numbers.<br>
MyDoom variant starting to spread
The first variant of the virulent MyDoom worm has been discovered, just 48 hours after the worm first appeared in the wild.<br>
NASA's Mars images generate billions and billions of hits
NASA's twin Mars Rover missions have proved to be crowd pleasers, generating more than 4.5 billion hits on the space agency's Web site.<br>
IM use as a government tool? You bet
The commercial world may be ahead of the government in adopting instant messaging for business, but feds aren't lagging far behind, one IM industry official says.<br>
Cryptography pioneer says information security is possible'within a decade
Whitfield Diffie, a discoverer of public-key encryption in the 1970s, expects the distribution of computing processes across networks can produce a more secure computing environment.<br>
Virulent MyDoom virus skirts feds, military users
<font color="CC0000">UPDATED </font color>The W32/MyDoom virus now raging across the Internet has special code designed to prevent it from attacking federal and military users, according to Symantec Corp.<br>
Symantec scores a coup for its intrusion prevention tool
Symantec Corp. has gained an Assurance Level 3 Common Criteria certification for its ManHunt intrusion prevention tool.<br>
Scam spammers go on FDIC phishing expedition
A new e-mail spam hoax is making the rounds of messaging systems in search of private bank account information.<br>
Appropriations bill funds HHS security
The Consolidated Appropriations Act awaiting the president's signature includes $15 million for the Health and Human Services Department's IT Security and Innovation Fund.<br>
Navy lab champions just-in-time optical routing for efficient use of high-performance networks
The Naval Research Laboratory has tested a new optical networking protocol that takes full advantage of all-optical transmission paths.The Just-in-Time protocol does fast light-path provisioning, rapidly setting up and tearing down optical connections. It grew out of work by researchers at North Carolina State University, MCNC Research and Development Institute of Research Triangle Park, N.C., and NRL's Center for Computational Science.
IPv6 could get wider use in the government
The Commerce Department is accepting public comments on the costs and benefits of switching to IP Version 6 from Version 4. The request for comments hints at possible large-scale use of the protocol across all agencies.
FAA clears rollout of net backbone
With the all-go sign given for a new communications backbone, the Federal Aviation Administration has taken the first step toward saving roughly $700 million on its telecommunications costs over the next 15 years.
Democrats' cyber-embarrassment offers lessons on IT security
A compromise of Senate files appears to be a classic case of an IT system that is crunchy on the outside but chewy on the inside'lacking internal security against insider threats.<br>
Security efforts misguided, experts say
The government's keystone information assurance law is misdirecting scarce resources and failing to secure legacy systems, an industry expert believes.
Security analysts recommend scrapping online voting plans
A group of security analysts who have evaluated Defense Department plans for an online voting pilot have recommended that the plan be scrapped because its security cannot be ensured.<br>
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