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Hong Kong Signs Up To View Windows Code
News Hong Kong has just signed on to Microsoft's Government Security Program (GSP), giving the Hong Kong government controlled, no-fee access to Microsoft Windows' source code and related information, subject to US export restrictions.
[November 27, 2003, 8:50]
Microsoft Accelerates Public Sector Offensive
News Under the Security Cooperation Program, Microsoft will advise participating government agencies on network security issues in an effort to try to anticipate or mitigate security lapses, said Gerri Elliott, corporate vice-president of Microsoft's...
[February 2, 2005, 12:30]
Microsoft Opens Windows For UK
News Microsoft unveiled the Government Security Program two weeks ago as a way to address concerns various governments have about the security of its Windows operating system. The Government Security Program was the brainchild of Craig Mundie, Microsoft...
[February 3, 2003, 7:42]
China Inspects Windows Code
News The China Information Technology Security Certification Centre (CNITSEC) signed an agreement with Microsoft to participate in Microsoft's Government Security Program (GSP). Microsoft is in discussions with more than 30 countries, territories and...
[February 28, 2003, 14:41]
Aussie Govt To See Windows Source Code
News Under the program, governments are given controlled access to Windows source code and other technical information in a move the vendor says is designed to allow them "to be confident in the enhanced security features of the Windows platform".
[August 14, 2003, 10:20]
Expect To See More Microsoft Source
Leader So Microsoft added the Government Security Program, which was considered by many at launch as an attempt to counter growing government interest in open-source software, and the growing distrust of "Security through Obscurity".
[September 20, 2004, 14:30]
Governments To See Windows Code
News The Shared Source Initiative is available to about half the countries who are eligible for the Government Security Program, DanDan said. The Government Security Program was the brainchild of Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief technical officer of...
[January 15, 2003, 7:33]
Asian Windows Alternative 'would Raise Competition Issues'
News Robertson said that Microsoft has been working to have Japan participate in its Government Security Program, which gives national governments and international organisations access to Microsoft's source code, the underlying blueprint for its...
[September 8, 2003, 9:15]
Feds Warn Of New Worm Threat
News A government Internet watchdog warned companies this past weekend of a new malicious program that spreads to previously compromised PCs and seemingly prepares the infected machines to launch a denial-of-service attack, sources said Monday.
[June 26, 2001, 7:16]
RFID Passports Go Live
News In July 2005, the US government announced that passports issued by Visa Waiver Program countries on or after 26 October, 2006, must be e-Passports to be valid for entry into the US without a visa. The deadline for all the countries in the Visa...
[October 27, 2006, 9:30]
FBI In Panic Over 'new' Hacking Tool
News He wrote the program sometime last summer to test intrusion detection software and later gave the code to the National Security Agency through an intermediary with the proviso that he might release it this year, perhaps as soon as March 15.
[March 19, 2001, 8:58]
Worm Exposes Laziness And Microsoft Bugs
News The small but malicious program rapidly exploited a six-month-old flaw in Microsoft SQL servers, underscoring a dirty secret in the IT industry: software bugs are common and administrators are slow to fix even widely publicised problems, said...
[January 27, 2003, 7:02]
Do We Need A Second Internet?
News The National Security Council advisor said that president Clinton was to announce on Friday an ROTC-like program to train network-security specialists to protect the government's data. Called CyberCorps, the program will provide up to $25,000 each...
[December 11, 2000, 9:33]
Carnivore Review: A 'stacked Deck?'
News The members of the proposed review team include: J Allen Crider, a senior program analyst at IITRI, who worked for various government contractors on projects at the FBI and NASA; Mary Ranade, a senior computer scientist for IITRI, who worked at...
[October 5, 2000, 8:19]
Symantec CEO Urges Shift In Security Tactics
News The US government is providing $30m (£19.2m) to the US Office of Personal Management's Cyber Corps Scholarship For Service program, to encourage college students to go into the security technology field.
[November 20, 2003, 8:50]
US Privacy Advocates Sue Over National IDs
News EPIC said it requested, under the Freedom of Information Act, on 20 March that the Office of Homeland Security release records -- including memos, reports and draft legislation -- that relate to a standard driver's license, the trusted-flier...
[April 3, 2002, 9:34]
NASA Sites Hit By Anti-war Hackers
News The defacement archive, Zone-H, listed the 13 sites, which include NASA's Computing, Information and Communications Technology Program site and the Mars Exploration Program Landing Sites pages. I am compelled to admit that sometimes it takes very...
[December 18, 2003, 9:15]
Encryption Export Picture Remains Unclear
News Department over the right to publish and discuss with other scientists the technology behind his encryption program, dubbed Snuffle. He noted that the decree does not bar the enforcement of current U.S.crypto export rules, but rather prohibits...
[August 27, 1997, 10:04]
Symantec Labels Anti-censorship Software A Trojan
News According to a report in the Financial Times, the firm has said that a program called Freegate, which allows users to access government blocked Web sites, should be considered a Trojan horse. The result is that users of Symantec's antivirus product...
[September 15, 2004, 13:00]
Pentagon Database To Spy On Americans
News John Poindexter, who oversees the agency's Total Information Awareness (TIA) program, approved 26 of them last autumn, including grants to the University of Southern California, the Palo Alto Research Centre, and defence contractor Science...
[February 28, 2003, 11:36]
