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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 270 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: house panel kills controversial copyright provision comments Discuss  
A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee has stripped out a provision in a copyright enforcement bill that would have increased fines for compilation CDs containing pirated music by 10 times or more. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 256 days ago
Via: http://blog.washingtonpost.com | Tags: white house taps tech entrepreneur cyber post comments Discuss  
The Bush administration is planning to tap a Silicon Valley entrepreneur to head a new inter-agency group charged with coordinating the federal government's efforts to protect its computer networks from organized cyber attacks. Sources in the government contracting community said the White House is expected to announce as early as Thursday the selection of Rod A. Beckstrom as a top-level adviser based in the Department of Homeland Security. Beckstrom is an author and entrepreneur best...Please click on the read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 255 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn white house picks tech entrepreneur security post comments Discuss  
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9899047-7.htmlBy Steven MusilNews BlogMarch 19, 2008A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has been chosen to run the new National Cyber Security Center, an agency charged with coordinating efforts to protect the federal government's computer networks from cyberattacks, according to published reports.Rod Beckstrm, 47, is expected to be appointed to the post Thursday and report directly to Michael Chertoff, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, according to reports in read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 220 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn mexican embassy official fired caught white house blackberries comments Discuss  
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352378,00.htmlFOX NewsApril 24, 2008Whether he was up to no good or simply desperate to play BrickBreaker, a Mexican press attach was caught on camera pocketing several White House BlackBerries during a recent meeting in New Orleans and has since been fired, FOX News has learned.Sources with knowledge of the incident said the official, Rafael Quintero Curiel, served as the lead press advance person for the Mexican Delegation and was responsible for handling logistics and read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 215 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn white house emails case missing blackberrys comments Discuss  
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/04/8082_stolen_blackber.htmlBy Nick Baumann Mother Jones Blog04/28/08During a summit in New Orleans last week, a press aide for the Mexican government took two unattended BlackBerrys belonging to U.S. officials. The aide, Quintero Curiel, has since been fired, but questions remain. Curiel told Mexican newspapers that he thought the PDAs had been abandoned and insists he planned to return them. So his intentions may have been noble. The devices have been rec read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 207 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn hackers join social network craze house hackers comments Discuss  
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/social_network/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207600657By Thomas ClaburnInformationWeekMay 7, 2008Hackers now have their own social network. GnuCitizen, a computer security consultancy, has set up a social network for hackers called House of Hackers on Ning.com"House of Hackers is a social network for hackers," wrote Petko D. Petkov, founder of GnuCitizen, in a blog post on Tuesday. "From our perspective, a hacker is a person people express admiratio read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 207 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn white house admits missing email backup tapes start iraq war comments Discuss  
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/05/8165_white_house_adm.htmlBy Nick BaumannMother Jones Blog05/06/08The White House acknowledged in a court filing last night that it no longer has backup tapes of email from between March 1 and May 22, 2003, a period that includes the beginning of the Iraq war.Yesterday's filing (PDF) [1] is the latest development in the ongoing White House emails lawsuit, in which two non-profits, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the Nationa read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 164 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: house leaders plan hearing googleyahoo deal comments Discuss  
Congressional leaders are planning to hold a hearing this summer on the competitive and privacy concerns of a search advertising deal announced last week between Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 163 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: house approves surveillance bill protects telecoms comments Discuss  
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved legislation that would continue a controversial surveillance program at the U.S. National Security Agency with limited court oversight, while likely ending lawsuits against telecommunications carriers that participated in the program. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 154 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn white house advisor hackers blackout comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:25:44 -0500 (CDT)http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/former-white-ho.htmlBy Kevin Poulsen Threat LevelWired.comJune 27, 2008 Cyber security consultant Paul Kurtz threw some cold water this week on a report that Chinese hackers caused the massive 2003 northeastern U.S. blackout. He worked for the White House at the time of the outage.Last month the National Journal cited two computer security professionals, who in turn cited unnamed read more »
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