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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 192 days ago
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http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0208/021508j1.htmBy Jill R. Aitoro Govexec.com February 15, 2008Federal agencies continue to struggle with information security, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. Weak access controls, network device configuration, and management procedures leave systems vulnerable to malicious attacks and data at risk of exposure.The report (GAO-08-496) [1], which GAO presented to Congress during a hearing Thursday, summarized agency progress in performi read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 190 days ago
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http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39170099,00.htmBy Nick HeathSilicon.com19 February 2008The government has admitted almost 200 laptops have been stolen from various departments, including the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), since 2001.The figures for phone, laptop and PDA loss and theft across government departments reveal the MoJ has had 135 laptops and 56 mobile phones stolen, with a further 34 laptops and 116 phones gone missing since 2001.It was disclosed that other department losses since 2 read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 179 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: us government forces military secrets brit webmaster comments Discuss  
Sorry, we thought you were usA website promoting the town of Mildenhall has been shut down because it unintentionally became the recipient of hundreds of classified emails, including messages detailing the planned flight path of President Bush.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 178 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: government reviewing microsofts interoperability changes comments Discuss  
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and state attorneys general are reviewing Microsoft's interoperability changes announced Feb. 21 "and intend to discuss them in more detail" with the company, according to the latest status report in the 2003 antitrust judgment against Microsoft. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 178 days ago
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/03/mildenhall_website/By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register3rd March 2008A website promoting the town of Mildenhall has been shut down after it unintentionally became the recipient of hundreds of classified emails, including messages detailing the planned flight path of President Bush.Over more than a decade, www.mildenhall.com received emails detailing all kinds of secret military information that were intended for official Air Force personnel. One detailed where read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 177 days ago
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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/03/content_7710750.htmwww.chinaview.cn 2008-03-03 MACAO, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The online directory page of Macao's Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) was hacked last Saturday, but has resumed normal operation hours later that day, according to a press statement released on Monday by the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) Government. The SAR government said in the statement that since the hijacked website only provides public informa read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 161 days ago
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http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2008/03/21/014.htmlBy Matt SiegelStaff WriterThe Moscow TimesMarch 21, 2008President Vladimir Putin has signed a pair of executive orders designed to protect secrets carried on government computer networks from sabotage by insiders by restricting connections between international and domestic computer networks.The measures, signed Wednesday, restrict the ability of computers with access to "state or official secrets" to connect with networks that travel outsi read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 154 days ago
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The retailer promises to upgrade the security of its computer networks in an agreement with the FTC over accusations of lax policies....Free Embedded Linux Webinars 5 free embedded Linux webinars from Timesys. Topics include Toolsets, Boot-Up, Filesystems & more. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 150 days ago
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About eight years after the U.S. Congress passed a law requiring federal agencies to allow telecommuting, just 17 percent of federal employees do so, according to a survey released Monday. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 150 days ago
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http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Lost-by-the--.3929030.jpBy Ross LydallThe Scotsman31 March 2008A MINISTERIAL limousine and almost 600 laptops are among more than 1.3 million of government items lost or stolen in the past decade, it emerged yesterday.The car, worth 22,550, was taken from the Department for Education and crashed after being stolen. Westminster government sources were unable to shed further light on the incident, but it is likely to have involved a Toyota Prius.Other items to have disappeared sin read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 149 days ago
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IBM has received a grand jury summons from the U.S. Attorney's Office over possible procurement violations between employees of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and certain IBM employees, the company said Monday. read more »
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