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US security agency hunts international cybercrime ring

US Department of Homeland Security is hunting an international cybercrime ring allegedly involved in identity theft, raiding the house of two Vietnamese exchange students Read more

5 January, 2011 by Liau Yun Qing

US security agency faces body-scanner backlash

The US Transportation Security Agency has said it will consider minor changes to body-scanning procedures in light of complaints from pilots, but scans will remain for the general public Read more

17 November, 2010 by Declan McCullagh

Blue Coat web filtering technology 'used by Syria'

The Syrian regime is using equipment from US security company Blue Coat to filter web communications in the country, according... Read more

5 September, 2011

Symantec blamed for Huawei alliance break-up

The US security firm chose to dissolve its joint venture with Chinese firm Huawei... Read more

27 March, 2012 by Ellyne Phneah

Hackers hold bank to ransom over stolen data

...Belfius. Belgian police have launched an investigation, and Belfius has engaged a US security company to conduct an internal enquiry. Delvou said the bank could... Read more

4 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

EU and US sign draft passenger data pact

...without undermining the effectiveness of the agreement in terms of EU and US security." The new deal has "stricter safeguards on data protection, and clearer... Read more

18 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner

News International sites taken down in LulzSec attack

...as a repository for statements and microsites. According to Alex Bond, a US security researcher, the hackers managed to insert JavaScript code into The Sun... Read more

19 July, 2011 by David Meyer

LinkedIn public offering to value company at over $3bn

...itself at around $3bn for a planned flotation, according to an updated US Security and Exchange Commission filing. The filing — updated on Monday — indicated that... Read more

10 May, 2011 by Ben Woods
VeriSign's goal: Bump up internet bandwidth 1,000 times

VeriSign's goal: Bump up internet bandwidth 1,000 times

...will need to increase by a factor of a thousand, according to US security company VeriSign. The company, which administers one of the root servers... Read more

9 July, 2010 by Tom Espiner
My Attorney App 2.0

My Attorney App 2.0

...many insurance companies and businesses, including State Farm, Allstate, Progressive, Metlife, USAA, US Security, Nationwide, Zurich American, Infinity, Farmers, Florida Farm Bureau, Unitrin, esurance, Travelers... Read more

29 October, 2011

Researcher sacked over anti-Microsoft paper

...contributing to a paper that called Microsoft's dominance a threat to US security Read more

26 September, 2003 by John Borland

US names cybersecurity head

A Symantec veteran will oversee the US government's efforts at fighting cyberterrorism Read more

16 September, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

...Confidential US security documents' flaunted online

Information from the US Department of Homeland Security appears to have reached the public domain via Google's Web cache Read more

24 January, 2005 by Dan Ilet

Ellison donates Oracle 9i for US security

Oracle's chief urges the US goverment to set up a national ID standard, and provides software to an unnamed agency Read more

5 December, 2001 by Wylie Wong
<endeca_term>US Security</endeca_term> Directive FIPS 201 Compliance Strategies

US Security Directive FIPS 201 Compliance Strategies

All U.S. government agencies are faced with a major challenge of combating and preventing terrorism in order to improve... Read more

1 March, 2008

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knapper

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

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So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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Jason Burchell

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apexwm

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