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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]
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 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). Wu ShiZhong, director of the CNITSEC reaffirmed that information technology...
[February 28, 2003, 14:41]
Aussie govt to see Windows source code
News The open-ended agreement -- announced today by Microsoft's chief security strategist, Scott Charney -- follows more than eight months of negotiations with the federal Defence Signals Directorate, the agency which provides information security...
[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 US government has repeatedly dismissed the...
[October 27, 2006, 9:30]
FBI in panic over 'new' hacking tool
News Just a case of bureaucratic panic, some say, and a rare look at how security issues create confusion inside the US government. The Government side was in panic over the tool," Giovanni wrote. Giovanni thinks several government agencies worked...
[March 19, 2001, 8:58]
Worm exposes laziness and Microsoft bugs
News It also came just days after the General Accounting Office, the auditing arm of Congress, said the US government has spent at least US$2.9bn (£1.8bn) in 2002 on information technology related to homeland security.
[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. Clarke also believed that an exemption to the Freedom of...
[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]
US gov't shown silver lining of cloud computing
News The financial downturn, momentum from the private sector and a new web-savvy administration have come together to create the perfect climate for government adoption of cloud computing, said software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors, federal information...
[February 26, 2009, 8:23]
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 This would be a very critical test of open government," Marc Rotenberg, EPIC's executive director, said in a conference call. This is less about privacy and very much about how do we preserve open government.
[April 3, 2002, 9:34]
NASA sites hit by anti-war hackers
News I am compelled to admit that sometimes it takes very large public embarrassment for any government agency to take security seriously". Regardless of the content of the defacement, breaking into commercial systems is one thing .breaking into...
[December 18, 2003, 9:15]
Encryption export picture remains unclear
News She also said it was an acknowledgement that the government erred in trying to regulate the dissemination of a scientific product. Officials at the Electronic Frontier Foundation went further, saying in a statement "The decision knocks out a major...
[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. Symantec's Norton AntiVirus product has blacklisted...
[September 15, 2004, 13:00]
