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NERC Gets Aurora Slap On The Wrist
Blog A major US energy overseer has been boxed around the ears by a US policy maker over its handling of a vulnerability in US critical national infrastructure security. Not only did they propose cybersecurity standards that - according to the GAO and...
[May 28, 2008, 16:49]
Energy Industry Seen As Prime Cyberattack Target
News When asked which industry is the biggest target for cyberattack, critical infrastructure insiders in the US, Canada and Europe point to the energy sector. Survey participants from the US and Canada were also asked how soon major exploits of...
[November 12, 2008, 11:14]
Microsoft Domination 'threatens US Security'
News A computer industry group critical of Microsoft plans to release a report on Wednesday arguing that the software giant's dominance in key technologies threatens US infrastructure. The report, issued by the Computer and Communications Industry...
[September 24, 2003, 14:30]
Amazon Blames Outage On Complicated Systems
News Amazon.com appears to be blaming its complicated infrastructure for the outage that left it inaccessible to many US visitors for more than an hour and a half on Friday. As to the explanation for the outage, the company only hinted its complicated...
[June 9, 2008, 15:41]
Swiss Link To Echelon Follows Satellite Sale
News The Swiss military sees the purchase of the satellite stations by the US as a potential threat to national security, arguing that the infrastructure could be used for spying. Verestar provides infrastructure support for America's National Security...
[December 12, 2000, 10:40]
Linux Software Locks Down Industrial Infrastructure
News Such networks -- the two common types being Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) networks and Distributed Control Systems (DCSs) -- have come under intense scrutiny after the 11 September terrorist attacks, as they could be weak points...
[June 11, 2003, 7:32]
US Reveals Plans To Hit Back At Cyber Threats
News The infrastructure the US military uses to both launch and defend against cyberattacks runs through the public internet system. Military networks such as the Global Information Grid are linked to US government and critical national infrastructure...
[April 2, 2008, 17:27]
FBI Warns Of Bugs For Christmas
News The National Infrastructure Protection Centre (NIPC)-- a coordinated effort between the US Department of Justice, the FBI, and several other government agencies -- cited "an increase in hacker activity specifically targeting US systems associated...
[December 5, 2000, 8:19]
Weathering The Cyber Storm
News Last week, Purdy oversaw the first large-scale mock cyberattack, aimed at gauging the US' readiness to handle computer-based threats to critical infrastructure. He sat down with ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com to discuss the US' preparedness for...
[February 21, 2006, 14:35]
Photos: Inside Wimbledon's Tech Fortress
News Wimbledon is just one part of a global sporting technology operation for IBM, which also provides the infrastructure for tennis's other three Grand Slams — the Australian, French and US Opens — plus the Superbowl and the US Masters golf championship.
[July 6, 2007, 16:59]
US Government Awards Lucent $75m Iraq Contract
News A Department of Defense representative said the Lucent contract and other Iraqi telephone infrastructure repairs are a "significant portion" of the more than $7bn the US is spending to rebuild vital infrastructure in the war-torn country.
[March 26, 2004, 12:00]
Corporate Express Reaps Rewards Of Virtualisation
News We dipped our toe early on into VMware and found that could help us out, but our storage infrastructure didn't suit our virtualisation requirements," Jones said at the Gartner Infrastructure, Operations & Data Centre Summit in Sydney.
[May 8, 2008, 13:23]
BT Slammed For 'ignoring' Broadband Interest
Talkback It is disruptive for us to swap a core infrastructure service back and forth. My point is that licences to provide basic infrastructure should incorporate clear requirements as to the UK's needs, specified by the Government, and publicized.
[December 3, 2003, 11:55]
How CIOs Can Help Fight Cyberterror
News The truth of the matter is that modern global terrorism is a thinking enemy that understands the only way to force America to withdraw from the world is to strike at the soft underbelly of the US economy, which is its digital infrastructure.
[July 24, 2003, 14:44]
Sendmail Flaw Tests New Security Body
News They were a good resource in helping us make sure that the protection was put in place," Greg Olson, chairman and co-founder of Sendmail Inc.said of the National Infrastructure Protection Center responder personnel (now with the directorate).
[March 4, 2003, 7:36]
Do We Need A Second Internet?
News Clarke made the statements after noting that experts are becoming increasingly worried about a disruption in cyberspace affecting critical parts of the US national infrastructure, and stressed that the idea is one that he is advocating and is not...
[December 11, 2000, 9:33]
International Cyberattack Drill Tests Nations' Responses
News Details have emerged about "Cyber Storm II", a large-scale exercise carried out to test how governments and critical-infrastructure organisations respond to cyberattacks. Paul McKitrick, business manager for the New Zealand Centre for Critical...
[April 10, 2008, 11:22]
AT&T: Internet To Hit Full Capacity By 2010
News Cicconi, who was speaking at the event as part of a wider series of meetings with UK government officials, said that at least $55bn (£27.5bn) worth of investment was needed in new infrastructure in the next three years in the US alone, with the...
[April 18, 2008, 13:28]
US And EU Clash Over Internet Control
Talkback And, because of that, it remains a piece of US infrastructure. Same as a lot of pieces of US infrastructure are handed over to a US based non for profit groups, created by the government, to oversee their operation.
[October 8, 2005, 4:10]
I Wandered Lonely As An Unmanaged Cloud Service
Blog Would you be suspicious if a piece of software claimed to be the first product capable of monitoring the “entire” enterprise infrastructure, bridging the gap between the data centre and the cloud? Manage with our product - they say - and a bright...
[November 12, 2008, 7:47]
