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Government Web sites 'fail' citizens
News Government Web sites are failing to meet the basic needs of citizens who turn to them for help and advice on debt, housing, health and employment, according to a report by the Society of IT managers (Socitm) and Citizens Advice Bureaux.
[October 30, 2003, 16:10]
Hacker defaces 200 government Web sites
News A hacker defaced more than 200 Brazilian government Web sites this week what appears to be a political protest. According to security experts, the attacker penetrated a single Internet service provider that hosts all the government Web sites.
[October 26, 2004, 17:40]
Hackers attack Welsh local government Web sites
News Three local government Web sites in Wales have admitted to receiving simultaneous hacking attempts in the last week. The official Web sites of Carmarthenshire County Council, Pembrokeshire County Council and the town of Abergavenny were all...
[July 27, 2001, 15:08]
Guide to Securing Your E-Government Web Site
White Papers By ensuring the security of these sites, your agency can engender trust and make it easier to transact business with the Federal Government. By setting up an online presence for E-Government, your agency can reach the millions of citizens and other...
[August 23, 2005, 6:00]
Government to shake up its Web plans
News Recent reports from the National Audit Office have found government Web sites to be inefficient, hard to navigate and wasteful of taxpayers' money. It follows criticism of government's ability to use the Web.
[April 5, 2000, 11:03]
Hackers attack Government Web site
News The group of computer crackers claiming responsibilitty for the defacement, Prime Suspectz, are thought to have been behind break-ins at a number of Web sites in recent weeks. Computer crackers broke into the British government's Web site for the...
[March 12, 2001, 15:07]
Government web content to join archive
News The European Archive already copies 50 or 60 UK government sites, which are freely available. This should ensure much better survival of documents you see," he told GC News, adding that it is particularly valuable to copy websites just before their...
[August 20, 2008, 10:31]
Police ask for more Internet powers
News Chief UK police officers are asking the government for new powers that would allow them to attack terrorist Web sites. The list of recommendations does not detail how police would attack Web sites but in many cases remotely disabling a Web server...
[July 26, 2005, 8:55]
Political hackers on the increase in Britain
News US government sites were also the target of hackers last year, with the .gov domain experiencing a 37 percent increase in Web site defacements. Hacking attacks on political Web sites more than tripled in the UK during 2001, despite a sharp fall in...
[January 14, 2002, 17:52]
Anthrax panic bumps up Web traffic
News People flocked to government Web sites last week for reliable information on anthrax after a string of related terrorist threats to news operations and government officials, according to a survey released on Friday.
[October 22, 2001, 10:00]
US Government Web tracking under scrutiny
News Dozens of federal agencies are tracking visits to US government Web sites in violation of long-standing rules designed to protect online privacy, an investigation by ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has shown.
[January 5, 2006, 14:05]
Government sites defaced in US, UK and Australia
News Government sites in the US, UK and Australia were reportedly hit by a single group of hackers Saturday in what has been described as the most systematic defacement of world-wide government servers on the Web.
[January 22, 2001, 12:24]
Government sites defaced by anti-smoker
News A number of UK government Web sites were attacked and defaced this week by a cracker protesting against smoking cigarettes. The cracker, who calls himself "Herbless", hit nine departmental and local government Web sites, replacing content with a...
[August 17, 2000, 10:00]
Cheesed off cracker strikes again
News The same approach was used to attack the government Web sites in August. An individual claiming to be the malicious cracker who attacked UK government sites last month, has struck again. The cracker "Herbless" daubed nine department and local...
[September 12, 2000, 12:52]
Symantec labels anti-censorship software a Trojan
News Symantec's Norton AntiVirus product has blacklisted software that allows users in China to access government-blocked Web sites. According to a report in the Financial Times, the firm has said that a program called Freegate, which allows users to...
[September 15, 2004, 13:00]
Government urges Web accessibility
News Councils not doing so already should use the widely recognised European Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and British adapted version, Guidelines for UK Government Web sites , he said on Thursday.
[November 8, 2004, 14:43]
Hackers attack Japanese government
News The Japanese Government has suffered a spate of cyberattacks on two of its Web sites this week, according to reports. A government spokesman told the Associated Press that key Web servers stopped working after hackers flooded them with data, making...
[February 24, 2005, 11:50]
Government sites continue to flout standards
News Government agencies are continuing to flout the government's own guidelines for interoperability, and failing to comply with the most basic standards designed to make Web sites accessible to people with disabilities, according to recent testing.
[November 25, 2003, 11:20]
PoizonBOx hackers leave e-envoy red-faced
News The government has launched an investigation after a chain of UK government Web sites including one belonging to the office of the e-envoy were hacked and defaced on Tuesday by a group of computer crackers.
[March 21, 2001, 10:50]
Ignorance hampers e-government drive
News The government is ignorant about the costs and benefits of putting public services online, and is not doing enough to learn from the experiences of people who are using existing government Web sites, according to an official report released on...
[April 25, 2002, 12:23]
