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US defence department reaches Wi-Fi pact
News Tech companies and the US Department of Defense have reached a compromise on the future of wireless networking, addressing military concerns about radar interference. The Department of Defense was worried that the cumulative effect of Wi-Fi...
[February 3, 2003, 8:57]
Business Performance Management Success Story - Department of Defence
White Papers The DOD required a service to enable proper strategic planning and control in line with governance and guidance from government. ILCLerumo and SITA have partnered to provide a strategic business advisory service (SBAS) to achieve these goals.
[May 20, 2005, 0:00]
Canadian government demands $120m refund from HP
News The Canadian government has demanded that Hewlett-Packard pay back $120m (£66.8m) related to contracts with its defence department. Canada has also demanded information from HP related to a total of $277m billed to the Department of National...
[March 12, 2004, 7:30]
Australia won't disclose stance on encryption
News Australia's Department of Defence won't disclose if it will answer the US government's call to arms in restricting encryption technologies, and despite widespread support in the States for a ban on cryptography, experts say it's unlikely to happen.
[September 21, 2001, 10:32]
Australian gov't calls on experts over DDoS attack
News Security experts from Australia's Department of Defence have been called in to assist federal government agencies that were targeted by a denial-of-service attack on Wednesday night, with sources predicting further attacks.
[September 10, 2009, 10:18]
Pentagon database to spy on Americans
News The US Defence Department has awarded millions of dollars to more than two-dozen research projects that involve a controversial data-mining project aimed at compiling electronic dossiers on Americans.
[February 28, 2003, 11:36]
Australians track crack attempt to US military
News The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Richard Humphry, managing director of the Exchange, contacted the United States' Defence Department to complain. Humphry has reportedly received assurances from the US Defence Department that there was no...
[October 4, 1999, 13:30]
MoD on hunt for 'budding Qs'
News The Ministry of Defence is on the hunt for "budding Qs" to keep it supplied with the latest gadgetry, the department announced on Friday. Small businesses seeking to supply the Ministry of Defence (MoD) have been invited to meet up with the...
[November 17, 2008, 7:24]
US homeland security to police the Net
News The bill -- which sets the stage for the largest federal reorganisation since the Defence Department was formed in 1947 -- does more than reshuffle government agencies. Those are the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre, the Defence...
[November 21, 2002, 11:55]
A Year Ago: Australians track crack attempt to US military
News The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Richard Humphry, managing director of the Exchange, contacted the United States' Defence Department to complain. Humphry has reportedly received assurances from the US Defence Department that there was no...
[October 4, 2000, 7:02]
We all live in a Windows submarine...
News MPs and security experts have asked Ministry of Defence (MoD) minister Geoff Hoon to explain why the department has chosen to use the operating system on some of its submarines and ships instead of Unix.
[October 25, 2004, 14:20]
BlackBerrys grounded by Whitehall data ban
News The devices have fallen foul of the department-wide ban imposed by cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell in the wake of the revelations about the Ministry of Defence data loss last month that resulted from a stolen laptop.
[February 5, 2008, 8:13]
MoD tech scheme hit by major delays
News In a report published on Thursday, the National Audit Office said that the late running of the Ministry of Defence's programme to replace hundreds of computer systems with a single, secure infrastructure has so far deprived the department of...
[July 4, 2008, 10:16]
Pentagon and hackers in 'cyberwar'
News In a speech last November, National Security Council Terrorism Coordinator Richard Clarke said Department of Defence Web sites are being visited regularly by foreign governments. The hackers didn't receive top secrets but the Pentagon's No.man...
[March 5, 1999, 16:30]
US official: We are under cyberattack all the time
News US defence secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday that the US is "under cyberattack virtually all the time, every day", and that the Defense Department plans to more than quadruple the number of cyber experts it employs to ward off such attacks.
[April 22, 2009, 9:51]
Navy set sights on Linux programmers
News A cooperative research and development agreement between the two organisations is designed both to produce a technical report and recommendations, and to create links between the software industry and the US Department of Defence.
[October 11, 2001, 14:59]
Dept of Homeland Security caused 'mini-DDoS'
News We actually have work to do," wrote Michael Kinder of the US Department of Defence Technical Support Working Group, according to a blog post on Wired.com. Subscribers to the mailing list included anti-terrorism professionals and military defence...
[October 5, 2007, 16:24]
Microsoft wins high-level security rating
News Information systems purchased by the Department of Defence are supposed to carry at least a C2 rating. Curry brought to the Department of Defence's attention late last year the fact that Microsoft had not obtained C2 certification for any release...
[December 7, 1999, 9:57]
Union warns: HP job cuts threaten gov't IT
News EDS has major contracts with Whitehall departments including the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Ministry of Defence. HP are getting massive DWP and defence contracts without having to go through a tendering process.
[September 18, 2008, 8:29]
A Year Ago: Pentagon and hackers in 'cyberwar'
News In a speech last November, National Security Council Terrorism coordinator Richard Clarke said Department of Defence Web sites are being visited regularly by foreign governments. The hackers didn't receive top secrets but the Pentagon's number two...
[March 6, 2000, 6:09]
