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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Sendmail Flaw Tests New Security Body
News In the future, the Department of Homeland Security will be the US agency that will manage any response to major cyberthreats. The agency helped notify other companies and the Sendmail Consortium, the open-source project that develops the mail...
[March 4, 2003, 7:36]
Cypherpunks Publish Proof Of Tempest
News Cypherpunks claims to have obtained information concerning Tempest from the US National Security Agency (NSA) through the freedom of information act and have published the information online . No information related to the subject of compromising...
[October 26, 1999, 15:11]
A Year Ago: Cypherpunks Publish Proof Of Tempest
News Cypherpunks claims to have obtained information concerning Tempest from the US National Security Agency (NSA) through the Freedom of Information Act and have published the information online . No information related to the subject of compromising...
[October 26, 2000, 7:04]
A Year Ago: Pentagon And Hackers In 'cyberwar'
News Several experts said such an attack wouldn't have even been detected at all a few months ago but the government has been quietly setting up cyberwar early-warning operations at the Pentagon, CIA and the National Security Agency over the past year.
[March 6, 2000, 6:09]
US Agencies Demand Tighter Software Security
News The other federal agencies leading the initiative are the Department of Homeland Security, the National Security Agency, the Department of Defense, and the General Services Administration, CIS said. The Department of Energy on Tuesday will show off...
[September 23, 2003, 11:14]
MS Denies Giving American NSA Key
News Andrew Fernandes, the chief scientist of Cryptonym, had claimed that a second key in several versions of the company's Windows operating system contains coding using the letters "NSA", which he said indicated that Microsoft may be providing a key...
[September 6, 1999, 9:24]
Arming Linux Against Hackers
News If you rely on Linux for hosting or transmitting sensitive data, you should check out Security-Enhanced Linux, created by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and available for free. Once you configure the security system correctly, improper...
[February 18, 2004, 13:40]
Secure Enterprise Content Management For Government Agencies
White Papers The Documentum platform meets the requirements for Common Criteria certification established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA). For example, government regulations require US federal...
[July 18, 2008, 1:18]
FBI, CIA Testing 'Facebook For Spies'
News The CIA, FBI, and US National Security Agency are testing a social-networking site designed for use by analysts within the 16 US intelligence agencies, according to a report on CNN's website. Access will be limited to intelligence personnel with...
[September 8, 2008, 12:27]
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]
UN Agency Investigates Curbs On Internet Anonymity
News The documents, seen by ZDNet.co.uk's sister site CNET News.com, indicate that the US National Security Agency is also participating in the 'IP Traceback' drafting group, named Q6/17, which is meeting next week in Geneva to work on the traceback...
[September 15, 2008, 13:31]
Echelon: The French Fight Back
News A legal battle that threatens to blow the lid on the covert surveillance network Echelon will reach the courts by autumn according to the lawyer leading the assault on America's National Security Agency (NSA).
[June 29, 2000, 11:13]
Echelon: Proof Of Its Existence
News Patent number 5,937,422 was applied for in 1997 by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and describes a technology as a 'method of automatically generating a topical description of text by receiving the text containing input words'.
[June 29, 2000, 11:07]
FBI Supplier Puts Finishing Touches On Secure Linux
News To provide an alternative to Solaris, developers at TCS have built a custom version of Linux by extending the functionality of SELinux -- a security enhanced version of Linux developed by the US National Security Agency.
[October 20, 2004, 14:55]
