Sprint promises to bolster 3G wireless security for feds
ATLANTA'Sprint Corp.'s president said he expects that government agencies will buy into the company's new 3G wireless network.
Tools make dumb bandwidth smart
ATLANTA'Network administrators need to work smarter'not just harder'at managing bandwidth, speakers said last week at the Networld+Interop and Comdex trade show.
NSA cryptologist to feds: Use the security that's there
NSA no longer stands for No Such Agency. National Security Agency agents came at least partway out of the closet to ask help from hackers at the recent Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas.
Commercial sector shares threat information
The Information Sharing and Analysis Centers, established in key commercial sectors to help protect the nation's critical infrastructure, have evolved over the last year, developing a structure to share threat information among ISACs.
Sprint chief predicts 3G network is in the government's future
Government will buy into Sprint Corp.'s new 3G wireless network, president Ronald T. LeMay predicted today during his keynote address at the Networld+Interop and Comdex conference in Atlanta.
Security gurus: Cooperation is paramount
'Computer security is getting worse faster than it can ever be fixed,' Jeff Moss said at the recent Sector5 cybersecurity conference in Washington.
NIST simulator tells WTC story
To understand the fires that helped bring down the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, National Institute of Standards and Technology scientists are simulating the collapse on computers.
New hash standard set
Secretary of Commerce Don Evans has approved a new secure hashing standard for sensitive but unclassified information. It will become mandatory Feb. 1.
Defense teams study biometrics for smart cards
Two teams are evaluating biometric technologies for use with the Defense Department's Common Access Card program. DOD will decide in November which type to use.
NASA software finds cybersecurity niche
In the early 1990s, NASA developed a suite of tools to manage streams of engineering data flowing back to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory from satellites and the Voyager, Galileo and Cassini deep-space missions.
Cyber Eye: Hackers might play games with you
Briefings in Las Vegas was on an obsolete Sega Dreamcast game console used for so-called 180-degree hacking.
Turf wars hinder federal IT security
When Securify Inc. in June named Carl Wright vice president for federal operations, the Mountain View, Calif., company tapped 11 years of experience in the Marine Corps.
Commerce OKs new hashing standard for message authentication
The Commerce Department has approved a new secure hashing standard that adds three algorithms to produce longer hashes'or message digests'for digital signatures and message authentication.
War college calls a digital Pearl Harbor doable
The Naval War College and consultants from Gartner Inc. of Stamford, Conn., last month held war games to see how easy it would be for attackers to disrupt key segments of the U.S. economy. They concluded it was doable, given enough time and money.
Oak Ridge gets Internet2 link
The Energy Department's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee this month got its own 10-Gbps connection to the Internet2 research network.
NIST identifies good and bad points of biometrics
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is busy wrapping up an evaluation of biometric technology for Congress, as mandated by the USA Patriot Act of 2001.
Navy awards R&D contract for network
The Naval Research Laboratory has awarded a five-year, $29 million R&D contract for its Advanced Technology Demonstration Network.
First product gets validation under FIPS 140-2
A cryptographic driver from the Finnish company F-Secure Corp. has become the first product validated under the updated Federal Information Processing Standard for cryptographic modules.
Secret Service: Prevention, not arrests, is key to cybersecurity
In its efforts to combat cybercrime, the Secret Service is learning from law enforcement mistakes made in the war on drugs.
Data security hinges on money, not technology, feds say
Government customers can foster information assurance by demanding it from vendors, said officials charged with overseeing the safety of the nation's critical infrastructure.
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