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US warns of increased cybercrime risks
News Globalisation and increased reliance on the internet raise the risk of cyberattacks, a top US government security official warned on Thursday. To respond to the threat, Garcia called for broad collaboration among the good guys, a call often heard...
[February 9, 2007, 8:47]
Oracle settles false pricing suit
News Oracle has agreed to pay the US Government $98.5m to settle charges that PeopleSoft provided false pricing information to obtain a federal contract. The MAS programme requires vendors to provide their commercial pricing information to the...
[October 11, 2006, 8:55]
US gov't report: Data mining is ineffective
News The most extensive US government report to date on whether terrorists can be identified through data mining has concluded that it does not work well. US government agencies should be required to follow a systematic process to evaluate the...
[October 8, 2008, 14:59]
US Dept of Defense lists top 20 security controls
News A group of US government security organisations has listed the top 20 security actions that they recommend organisations should take to improve computer security. Called Twenty Most Important Controls and Metrics for Effective Cyber Defense and...
[February 23, 2009, 14:20]
Bush names new US 'CIO'
News President Bush has picked US Department of Energy chief information officer Karen Evans to become administrator of information technology and e-government for the federal government. Bush's announcement, released on Wednesday, said Evans will...
[September 4, 2003, 11:10]
Thirty years on, cryptography still too hard to use?
News US government controls held back cryptography in the past, but today, it's usability that blocks adoption, a panel of experts said on Thursday. The US government was a major obstacle in advancing cryptography until it lifted export controls in 1996...
[October 30, 2006, 16:10]
UN summit reopens debate over control of the net
News A long-simmering dispute over whether the US government has too much control over the internet's underpinnings will heat up again next week at a United Nations summit in Greece. But the diplomatic subtext is more pointed: Does the US government...
[October 27, 2006, 16:00]
Browser made secure in record time
News In a single fifteen-hour stint, a team of Australian programmers smashed the US Government's encryption export restrictions by adding strong cryptography to the source-code version of Netscape'sbrowser.
[April 8, 1998, 14:27]
Echelon: Proof of its existence
News Proof that the Echelon system was still operating was found in US government documents in 1998 and 1999. The Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC) recently obtained secret memos from the US government which outline protocols to NSA staff for...
[June 29, 2000, 11:07]
Schmidt: Google may share user info with US gov't
News Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has revealed that the US government has made "requests" for the search giant to share information about its users, and that Google would comply if the requests were legal.
[March 19, 2008, 11:38]
Feds take DDoS in their stride
Blog The US Department of Homeland Security has said that a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks began on US government networks on 4 July. The Treasury Department, a part of the Secret Service site, the Federal Trade Commission, and the...
[July 8, 2009, 18:18]
CIA World Factbook - Complete Edition. Detailed Countries Info and Maps. FREE 1st half book in trial
Downloads The World Factbook is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use of US Government officials. Maps, history, climate, population, religion, government, US diplomatic representation, economy, natural resources, communications...
[October 25, 2007, 8:00]
Keep your data options open, warns Gartner
News International companies keeping data abroad might want to reconsider their options after a number of US telcos were accused of leaking data to a US government agency earlier this month, analyst house Gartner has warned.
[May 24, 2006, 12:40]
ICANN needs international rescue
Leader The US government wants to keep ICANN on a tight leash. An impossible task, even if it wasn't a US organisation funded by the US government. Its revival of a small domain name tax seems to many as evil now as when it was mooted five years ago - but...
[July 1, 2005, 14:05]
US reasserts control over the Internet
News The Bush administration announced on Thursday that the US government will not hand over control of the Internet to any other organisation, a surprise move that could presage an international flap. At the moment, the US government maintains control...
[July 1, 2005, 9:20]
US hits legal turbulence over EU passenger data
News The US Government has had a complaint brought against it for failing to disclose how it uses European airline passenger data. The EFF is also attempting to get hold of all correspondence between DHS and EU officials concerning the transfer and use...
[November 23, 2006, 16:26]
Feds weed out drug paraphernalia sites
News Attorney General John Ashcroft told reporters that the government would ask a US district court in Pittsburgh to point the sites to a Web page at the Drug Enforcement Administration explaining why they were taken offline, a new twist in crime...
[February 25, 2003, 8:17]
US quarantines visa system after virus attack
News A computer virus has hit the US Department of State, affecting the performance of the government's information technology system that manages visa approvals, according to reports. Class has been identified as one of the tools the US government is...
[September 25, 2003, 8:50]
Where is ICL when you need it!
Talkback If the UK government had got behind ICL like the US government did IBM, then the situation would not have occured as the non US would have gone for the better UK systems. Don't confuse Fujitsu with the old ICL as they would not have been involved...
[January 23, 2009, 10:45]
Another 'Nasa hacker' faces extradition
News A Romanian man was indicted on Thursday for allegedly breaking into more than 150 US government computers. After hacking into and taking control of the government computers, Faur allegedly caused the compromised machines to display screens that...
[December 4, 2006, 9:25]
