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US Privacy group sues NSA over spy net
News Americans could learn more about the degree to which the secretive National Security Agency -- the government body charged with cracking codes and protecting critical information -- has been spying on U.S.citizens, if a suit filed on Friday by the...
[December 6, 1999, 9:25]
Privacy group sues NSA over spy net
News The public could learn more about the degree to which the secretive National Security Agency -- the government body charged with cracking codes and protecting critical information -- has been spying on US citizens, if a suit filed on Friday by the...
[December 6, 1999, 10:12]
NSA attempting to design crack-proof computer
News Software emulation firm VMware announced it has teamed up with researchers at the US's National Security Agency to create a nearly crack-proof computer that can place sensitive data in virtual vaults inside the PC.
[February 2, 2001, 8:38]
Hacktivists battle against Big Brother
News A group of cyber-activists rallied their troops Thursday in an effort to jam a secret spy network headed by the National Security Agency in the US. Email flew across Australia, Europe and the US, urging people to send out electronic messages...
[October 22, 1999, 10:30]
Military agency to use Microsoft's Virtual Earth
News The NGA is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, and "provides timely, relevant and accurate imagery, imagery intelligence and geospatial information in support of national security objectives", according to the government agency's Web site.
[May 19, 2006, 9:50]
Singapore gov't plans cyber-terrorism agency
News The Singapore government has announced plans for a new agency dedicated to look at IT security and combat cyber-terrorism threats. The new agency, Singapore Infocomm Technology Security Authority (Sitsa), has been tasked to look at beefing-up the...
[October 1, 2009, 10:26]
US head of cybersecurity quits to spend more time with his family
News The top cybersecurity official in the United States has resigned, a little more than a year after joining the Department of Homeland Security, the agency said on Friday. The Department of Homeland Security plans to announce a replacement for Yoran...
[October 4, 2004, 11:45]
RSA calls for specialist UK cybercrime unit
News Bret Hartman, chief technology officer at security company RSA and former IT specialist with the National Security Agency, described the battle between authorities and online fraudsters, terrorists and other cybercriminals as an "arms race".
[February 15, 2008, 8:15]
Ellison donates Oracle 9i for US security
News During his keynote speech at Oracle's OpenWorld customer conference in San Francisco, Ellison said he has delivered Oracle's 9i database management software to a US government agency for national security, but he declined to give further details...
[December 5, 2001, 14:15]
US sued over 'massively illegal' comms surveillance
News In addition to suing the US National Security Agency (NSA), the not-for-profit internet-advocacy group also named president George Bush; vice president Dick Cheney; Cheney's chief of staff, David Addington; and former attorney general Alberto...
[September 19, 2008, 16:30]
MP calls for cybersecurity Tsar
News An MP has called for the creation of a 'Cybersecurity Tsar' and a national agency to combat the growing threat of cybercrime. The agency should be a unified national cybersecurity agency, which would be a single point of cybersecurity information...
[November 28, 2005, 13:30]
GCHQ takes on gov't IT security training
News The government is turning co-ordination of its IT security training over to the information assurance arm of British intelligence agency GCHQ. The agency also intends to feed information security knowledge from private-sector sources into the...
[July 1, 2009, 12:09]
Carnivore review: A 'stacked deck?'
News However, digital detective work revealed the names of the reviewers to be former White House insiders, including past members of the National Security Agency and former employees and consultants to the Departments of Defence, Justice, and Treasury.
[October 5, 2000, 8:19]
US government mulls an Internet of its own
News In addition, the proposal requires that all data on the network be encrypted using the current standard recommended by the National Security Agency and that the network be immune to worms, viruses, denial-of-service attacks and other Internet...
[October 11, 2001, 11:19]
Technologists assail federal Net-tapping rules
News The nine contributors included Vint Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist and one of the Net's founding fathers; Steven Bellovin and Matt Blaze, both prominent computer security professors who specialise in security; Clinton Brooks, a former...
[June 13, 2006, 10:25]
Obama urged to appoint cybersecurity chief
News The US Department of Homeland Security has failed to ensure the nation's cybersecurity, because the threat of cyberattacks is too vast for any one agency to tackle and must be addressed by a new White House office, as well as revised laws and...
[December 10, 2008, 8:35]
Training the cyberwar troops
News The red teams are made up of government employees from the National Security Agency and soldiers from the US Air Force's 92nd Information Warfare Aggressor Squadron and the Army's Land Information Warfare Activity.
[April 29, 2002, 12:38]
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]
Homeland Security bill becomes US law
News The law also: requires all federal agencies, including the CIA, the Defense Department and the National Security Agency, to provide the new department with any "information concerning the vulnerability of the infrastructure of the United States...
[November 26, 2002, 11:41]
Linux groomed for government role
News Strong support for the open-source operating system within the government came from a surprising quarter in early 2001 with the release of Security-Enhanced Linux from the National Security Agency, which for decades stymied researchers' and...
[August 16, 2002, 13:24]
