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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 297 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn official named to cybersecurity post while still under federal investigation comments 1 Comment  
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0108/020708cdam2.htmBy Chris Strohm CongressDaily February 7, 2008 The Homeland Security Department has appointed an official who is under federal investigation to a key position overseeing a program worth hundreds of millions of dollars to secure computer networks across the federal government.The Feb. 1 appointment of Scott Charbo, Homeland Security's chief information officer, to be deputy undersecretary for the national protection and programs directorate, drew immedi read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 296 days ago
Via: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com | Tags: federal it spending to rise comments Discuss  
p strong Federal IT spending is likely to rise but not before January 2 9. strong p ...Ruby on Rails Seminar Get up to speed on Rails at a two-day seminar in San Francisco. You'll leave with a deployed site! read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 262 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: lsdigital drops federal botnet confession comments Discuss  
Hacker admits to hosing RubbermaidA US-based hacker has admitted he reaped thousands of dollars by breaking into corporate computers in Europe and making them part of a botnet that automatically installed adware.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 240 days ago
Via: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com | Tags: federal judge warns ediscovery pitfalls comments Discuss  
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 236 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: chertoff dhs project lock federal computers comments Discuss  
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said his agency is working on a "reverse Manhattan Project" to help secure the federal government's computer systems. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 236 days ago
Via: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com | Tags: symantec ceo calls federal data breach legislation comments Discuss  
Data exposure grows more frightening as the amount of malicious software released in the second half of 2007 outpaced the release of legitimate software....Six Sigma Certification 100% Online-Six Sigma Certificate from Villanova - Find Out More Now. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 200 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: verizon snares million federal network contract comments Discuss  
Verizon Business has captured one of the largest federal network deals of 2008: a 10-year contract to provide managed network and security services to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that is valued at $678.5 million. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 131 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: convicted spammer awol federal prison comments Discuss  
Prolific pump-and-dump conman walks awayA convicted spammer who who generated millions of dollars blasting out pump-and-dump messages has gone AWOL from the federal prison camp where he was serving a 21-month sentence.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 113 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: federal judge halts defcon talk subway card hacking comments Discuss  
Barn door closed a little too lateDefcon A federal judge on Saturday barred three Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates from publicly presenting research at Defcon demonstrating gaping holes in the electronic payment systems of one of the nation's biggest transit agencies.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 102 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn federal judge throws gag order boston students subway case comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:38:03 -0500 (CDT)http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/federal-judge-t.htmlBy Kim Zetter Threat LevelWired.comAugust 19, 2008A federal judge in Boston this morning let expire a temporary gag order against three MIT students who were prevented from presenting a talk on security vulnerabilities in the Boston subway's fare tickets and cards.U.S. District Judge George A. O'Toole, Jr., vacated the temporary 10-day restraining order that an read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 96 days ago
Via: http://voices.washingtonpost.com | Tags: white house imposes security mandate federal agencies comments Discuss  
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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