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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 274 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: white spaces group device testing track comments Discuss  
A wireless broadband device tested by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for interference with television and wireless microphone signals has not failed, as a broadcasting group claimed last week, members of the White Spaces Coalition said Thursday. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 247 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 245 days ago
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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 211 days ago
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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 206 days ago
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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 198 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 145 days ago
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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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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 95 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: google launches white spaces campaign comments Discuss  
Google hopes a new Web site will help convince the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to allow a new generation of wireless broadband devices to connect via unused television spectrum. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 86 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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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 14 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: white house network pwned multiple times chinese comments Discuss  
'It is not as if they have continued access...'US officials say Chinese hackers have raided White House email archives multiple times, according to a report.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 14 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 03:03:20 -0600 (CST)http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2931c542-ac35-11dd-bf71-000077b07658.htmlBy Demetri Sevastopulo in WashingtonFT.comNovember 6, 2008Chinese hackers have penetrated the White House computer network on multiple occasions, and obtained e-mails between government officials, a senior US official told the FT.The cyber attackers managed to penetrate the White House system for brief periods that allowed them to steal information before