US Budgets $1bn For Homeland Security IT
News They include the Coast Guard, the US Customs Service, the Immigration and Naturalisation Service, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Secret Service and the Transportation Security Administration.
[August 1, 2003, 8:50]
Weathering The Cyber Storm
News The Cyber Storm exercise included players from government at the federal, state and international level and key private sector participants to work through what would happen if there were significant cyberattacks that disrupted or impacted the...
[February 21, 2006, 14:35]
Script Kiddies: The Net's Cybergangs
News Last February, that boredom led Artech to deface three pages in the US department of transportation's Web site, where he labelled himself as "America's worst screw up". The Doodoo Krew did just that when the group tagged the Spokane Police...
[July 13, 2000, 8:52]
Google Does The Business With New Search Hardware
News It has signed on customers such as Kaiser Permanente, the US Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory, and the California Department of Transportation, among others. Plus Google plans to introduce security and performance...
[September 30, 2002, 9:20]
US E-government Wins Higher Ratings
News Achieving green scores for e-government are the Transportation Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Small Business Administration. One major disappointment is the Department for Homeland Security.
[July 15, 2004, 13:20]
US Agencies Shun Windows Vista
News The US Department of Transportation (DOT) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cite fear of compatibility problems as one of the reasons not to allow their tens of thousands of employees to upgrade to Microsoft's latest...
[March 14, 2007, 8:39]
Sendmail Flaw Tests New Security Body
News The others are Management, Science and Technology, Border and Transportation Security, and Emergency Preparedness and Response. A critical flaw in Sendmail, the Internet's most popular email server, has become the first test for the US' newly...
[March 4, 2003, 7:36]
Online And Offline Security Merging
News US government projects to integrate physical and network security, such as the Transportation Worker's Identity Card mandated by the Transportation Security Agency and the Common Access Card used by the Department of Defense, up the lion's share...
[January 13, 2005, 13:35]
Airport Security Technology Under Scrutiny
News Travelers will see increased security measures at our airports, train stations and other key sites," Transportation Secretary Norman Y. The technology is only as good as the people who use it.It's a mind-numbing experience to watch 300 bags cross...
[September 13, 2001, 14:40]
Reporting Software Flaws Safely
News Last year he made a name for himself by making public an exploit for printing airline boarding passes, much to the dismay of the US Federal Aviation Administration, Transportation Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security.
[June 8, 2007, 18:02]
US Government IT Spending Jumps 50 Per Cent
News Five government departments -- Homeland Security, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the Department of Transportation -- awarded nearly 90 percent of the contracts in the 2004 quarter, for a total of $21bn.
[July 29, 2004, 14:30]
Air Travellers Unfazed By US Lithium-battery Ruling
News In addition, the US Department of Transportation (DoT) stated that travellers will not be permitted to carry more than two spare batteries that contain between nine and 24 grams of equivalent lithium content, and these components must be packed in...
[January 22, 2008, 15:07]
