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http://www.fcw.com/online/news/151741-1.htmlBy Jason MillerFCW.comFebruary 25, 2008Two high-ranking senators want to know when agencies will fully implement the Bush administrations requirements to protect personally identifiable data.Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committees Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent letters to 24 Cabi read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 265 days ago
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U.S. and Canadian law enforcement authorities have seized more than $78 million worth of counterfeit Cisco Systems networking equipment in an ongoing investigation into imports from China, the U.S. Department of Justice and other agencies announced Friday. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 202 days ago
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Read Brian Krebs's latest story on washingtonpost.com: "White House Plans Proactive Cyber-Security Role for Spy Agencies." America's spy agencies for the first time would be tasked with gathering intelligence on threats to the nation's computer networks under a policy set to be detailed by the White House next week, a senior administration official said Wednesday. Speaking at a security conference in Washington, the official said the Bush administration wants to harness the intelligence community's offensi read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 189 days ago
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http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/46262-1.htmlBy John RendlemanGCN.com05/14/08 The Office of Management and Budget will soon require agencies to configure their Doman Name System (DNS) servers to the security specifications set by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.OMB will issue a memo outlining the new policy shortly, according to Karen Evans, OMB's administrator for electronic government and information technology.The policy will roughly follow DNS security guidelines already published read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 143 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:25:12 -0500 (CDT)http://www.fcw.com/online/news/153001-1.htmlBy Mary MosqueraFCW.comJune 27, 2008The June 30 deadline is approaching for Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) and the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) has arrived, and now agencies are preparing to move past the starting line.Under TIC, agencies consolidated and reduced the number of external connections to the Internet and began to monitor the traffic passing through read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 132 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:35:51 -0500 (CDT)http://www.fcw.com/online/news/153102-1.htmlBy Mary MosqueraFCW.comJuly 10, 2008Agencies have until the latter part of 2009 to begin operating approximately 79 Internet gateways that will serve the federal government under the Trusted Internet Connection (TIC), Karen Evans, Office of Management and Budget's administrator for e-Government and information technology, said today.The exact number of connections may change as read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 85 days ago
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The Bush administration has ordered all federal agencies to adopt new measures to shore up the security of government Web sites, setting a January 2009 deadline for implementing the changes across all dot-gov domains. Agencies will be required to roll out domain name system security extensions (DNSSEC), a set of security add-ons for the domain name system. DNS is a fundamental piece of the Internet infrastructure that acts as a kind of distributed Internet phone...Please click on the title to continue read read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 70 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:04:42 -0500 (CDT)http://www.computerworld.co.ke/articles/2008/09/09/security-agencies-rally-against-google-chromeBy Roland van HekWebwereld Netherlands9 Sep, 2008Government computer security agencies in Germany and The Netherlands are warning consumers against using Google's Chrome browser."This concerns a beta version of Chrome. Govcert.nl recommends that test versions are installed only in a test environment. For the duration of t read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 29 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:02:52 -0500 (CDT)http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4732714a28.htmlBy TOM PULLAR-STRECKER The Dominion Post 20 October 2008Government agencies should weigh up the risks to security and New Zealand's wider economic interests before outsourcing IT systems overseas, says the State Services Commission.The commission has been developing guidelines for agencies considering "offshoring" information processing for 18 months.An IT industry ex read more »
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