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The Bush administration's long-awaited plan for protecting the nation's critical computer systems from cyberattacks is too weak because it does not set specific requirements for federal agencies or the private sector to follow, and politics is mostly to blame for the . . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 23, 2002

Offical: Cybersecurity Not Watered Down

A White House official is standing behind the administration's draft recommendations on cybersecurity, asserting that they have not been weakened by lobbying from technology companies. . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 20, 2002

Cybersecurity Plan Avoids Call for New Rules

A White House panel said Wednesday that the nation should deal with potential threats to computer security by educating users and by letting market forces -- not government mandates -- fix problems. The recommendations, released at Stanford University, range from . . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 19, 2002

Four Agencies Achieve Interoperable PKI

After five years of work, the General Services Administration's Federal Bridge Certification Authority has made the public-key infrastructures of four agencies interoperable. For the first time in history, federal agencies will accept each other's digital certificates through the bridge. . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 19, 2002

Cybersecurity Plan Lacks Muscle

After Sept. 11, 2001, cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke crisscrossed the country berating technology companies for failing to do enough to shore up the Net against potential terrorist attacks. In unveiling a highly anticipated White House cybersecurity proposal on Wednesday, however, . . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 19, 2002

Cybersecurity plan to offer tips, not rules

Under intense lobbying by industry groups, a White House panel studying ways to protect America's high-tech backbone has dropped several security ideas and turned others into topics for discussion rather than government mandates, according to the latest version of the plan. . . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 17, 2002

Critics: Industry Lobbying Removes 'Meat' From Proposals

Anthony Pell
Sep 17, 2002

Web Sites Reinforce Security and Privacy Policies, Review Finds

A Brown University analysis of government Web sites found that more federal and state sites are taking security and privacy seriously compared to last year. The Center for Public Policy at Brown analyzed 1,265 federal and state sites, measuring available . . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 17, 2002

White House Slows Cybersecurity Planning

The Bush administration will not unveil the final version of a national cybersecurity plan this Wednesday, saying it wants to gather more input from the technology industry. The White House had been expected to offer a detailed strategy for protecting . . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 17, 2002

Terror Czar: The War Is Digital

The government's current snooping system -- known as Carnivore -- makes it too easy to "enable the reading of all e-mails with only a warrant," McCaffrey said. This indiscriminate access makes it difficult for local law enforcement to find useful evidence . . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 12, 2002

Post-9/11, 'Sanitized' Sites Aim To Shield Data

Before September 11, 2001, most federal groups viewed the Internet as a place to store their vast library of public documents and as a way to network with community leaders in a timelier manner. But in the days that followed . . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 10, 2002

Administration Pares Cyber-Security Plan

As the White House moves to finalize a national plan to better secure cyberspace, high-tech firms and other companies are continuing a furious campaign to have some recommendations struck from the document. The administration no longer plans to recommend that Internet service providers such as America Online, MSN and EarthLink bundle firewall and other security technology with their software.. . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 10, 2002

White House Cybersecurity Chief Defines Cyberthreat

Richard Clarke, chairman of the president's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, recently spoke with Computerworld reporter Dan Verton about the nature and potential of the threat to the nation's critical infrastructure and what he sees as his biggest challenges with respect to national cybersecurity. Can you briefly explain the cybersecurity threat for those who still may not be sure who or what the enemy is. . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 09, 2002

Why FBI Computer Force is not Fat

The carefully coiffed men wearing suspiciously shiny shoes are at every major computer security convention. They are there to remind hackers that law enforcement is always interested in their activities. They are also there to encourage security experts to become . . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 04, 2002

GSA reviews authentication needs of e-gov projects

The General Services Administration has reviewed security needs for five of the 24 Quicksilver e-government projects and will finish reviews for the other 18 within the next 12 to 14 months. E-Authentication project leaders assessed the Business Compliance One-Stop, E-Grants, . . .

Anthony Pell
Aug 29, 2002

War College Calls A Digital Pearl Harbor Doable

The Naval War College and consultants from Gartner Inc. of Stamford, Conn., last month held war games to see how easy it would be for attackers to disrupt key segments of the U.S. economy. They concluded it was doable, given enough . . .

Anthony Pell
Aug 25, 2002

Bush's Cyber-Security Plan Targets E-Mail

In an effort to bolster the nation's cyber-security, the Bush administration has plans to create a centralized facility for collecting and examining security-related e-mail and data and will push private network operators to expand their own data gathering, according to an . . .

Anthony Pell
Aug 23, 2002

U.S. Secret Service rolls out cybersecurity task forces

BUSINESSES in large cities across the U.S. soon will have a chance to send their information technology specialists to quarterly government-sponsored meetings to compare notes with their peers on the subject of cybersecurity. . .

Anthony Pell
Aug 23, 2002

Plans emerging for national security data sharing

They may not be the Continental Congress, but hundreds of IT experts from the defense and intelligence communities gathered here yesterday to share ideas and plans on emergency responses to a terrorist attack on the nation. Only blocks from the . . .

Anthony Pell
Aug 21, 2002

Linux makes a run for government

A technology policy think tank is campaigning to win Linux a greater role in government by offering to act as a central repository for a federally certified version of the open-source operating system. . .

Anthony Pell
Aug 16, 2002

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Navigating Open-Source Security Risks: The Pursuit of Memory Safety in Open-Source Software

German State Abandons Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice

White House Warns: Move to Memory-Safe Languages