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Microsoft Corp.'s vulnerability-handling plan is a good start but may end up being insufficient as the specter of government regulation of Internet security looms, according to security experts. As IT security administrators and CIOs were absorbing the details of Microsoft's plan . . .

Anthony Pell
Nov 19, 2001

House OKs Bill With Cyber-Security Funding

Brian Krebs and Robert MacMillan, Newsbytes. The House of Representatives today passed a spending bill that contains funding for a raft of cyber-security and online crime-fighting initiatives. The House voted 411-15 to approve the Commerce-Justice-State (CJS) appropriations bill, a 2002 . . .

Anthony Pell
Nov 16, 2001

Companies reluctant to share cybersecurity info with feds

While Richard Clarke, the nation's chief cybersecurity adviser, is on a mission to foster a partnership between government and the private sector to prevent cyberattacks, Peter Tippett, the vice chairman and chief technologist with TruSecure, is skeptical that a meaningful partnership . . .

Anthony Pell
Nov 14, 2001

CIO Council folds security panel

The Office of Management and Budget and the federal CIO Council have decided to disband the council's Security, Privacy and Critical Infrastructure Committee to move beyond general issues to the "nitty-gritty details," said Mark Forman, OMB's associate director for information technology . . .

Anthony Pell
Nov 13, 2001

Feds Fail To Protect Their Own Computers

Two-thirds of the federal agencies reviewed got failing security grades for tech security, based on Office of Management and Budget reports and General Accounting Office audits. The U.S. government is giving itself more power to cyber-snoop on citizens and suspected . . .

Anthony Pell
Nov 12, 2001

Agencies flunk security review

A House panel last week gave two-thirds of all federal agencies a failing grade for efforts to secure information systems -- a worse showing than last year attributed to greater awareness of security vulnerabilities. Rep. Stephen Horn (R-Calif.), who has graded . . .

Anthony Pell
Nov 12, 2001

Cyber-security czar snubs ID plan

As technology companies promote the idea of a national identification card, the president's special adviser on cyber-security said on Wednesday the idea has little support within the Bush administration. Richard Clark said he couldn't name one official who supports the idea . . .

Anthony Pell
Nov 09, 2001

Federal Cyber Security Official: Prepare For The Worst

The nation must prepare for the worst-case scenario when it comes to securing the Internet, warned Richard Clarke, President Bush's special advisor on cyberspace security, on Wednesday. "We haven't patched the holes literally or figuratively. We have a system that's vulnerable . . .

Anthony Pell
Nov 09, 2001

Gov't Networks Get an 'F'

Despite dramatically tighter security since the terrorist attacks, a House panel is giving the government failing marks for lax protection of federal computer networks against hackers, terrorists and others.. . .

Anthony Pell
Nov 09, 2001

Will Congress impose Web security measures?

The computer and Internet industries need to work together to promote better security online, or lawmakers are likely to regulate the Web, a Washington, D.C., lobbyist said at the Trusted Computing conference Wednesday.. . .

Anthony Pell
Nov 07, 2001

Cyberspace Security Czar Worries About Attack

Back in the early 1990s, when crashing planes and anthrax in the mail were the stuff of movies or at least far-away places, Richard Clarke was already warning of terrorism on U.S. soil. Attacks on our skyscrapers. Biological warfare in . . .

Anthony Pell
Nov 06, 2001

Info systems on fast track

Agencies across government are speeding up the procurement and implementation of information systems that will assist the homeland security effort. Information sharing is key to homeland security, and almost every White House initiative in this effort includes a directive to find . . .

Anthony Pell
Nov 02, 2001

$1 billion boost possible for IT security

A $20 billion stimulus package in the works by Senate Democrats may include $1 billion to bankroll an information-technology fund, CNET News.com has learned. As proposed by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., the U.S. Office of Management and Budget would administer . . .

Anthony Pell
Nov 02, 2001

U.S. Supreme Court sends spam case back to Washington

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal challenging Washington state's law against unsolicited commercial e-mail, also known as "spam." The justices will allow a state superior court to hear a lawsuit against an alleged spammer. Without comment, the court . . .

Anthony Pell
Nov 01, 2001

DOD envisions virtual Pentagon

In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Defense Department is developing plans for a "virtual Pentagon" that would enable DOD officials to continue to work even in the event of a large scale attack on the Pentagon, senior . . .

Anthony Pell
Oct 31, 2001

Pentagon seeks help on denial of service attacks

The U.S. Department of Defense is seeking information from technology vendors on how to defend against distributed denial of service attacks, according to a special notice published last week. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Joint Task Force . . .

Anthony Pell
Oct 30, 2001

Patriot Act draws privacy concerns

President Bush signed legislation Friday that expands the ability to tap telephones and track Internet usage in the hunt for terrorists, new powers that drew praise from law enforcement officials and concern from civil libertarians. The bill, known as the USA . . .

Anthony Pell
Oct 26, 2001

White House asks industry to develop secure federal network

President Bush's special adviser on cybersecurity on Wednesday told hundreds of information technology specialists that he wants the private sector's recommendations on how to build a secure nationwide intranet for government agencies and their estimates on its cost. Richard Clarke also . . .

Anthony Pell
Oct 26, 2001

Data Protection Act kicks in

The first transitional period for the Data Protection Act (1998) ended yesterday and the second starts this morning - with huge implications for all UK businesses. From today (Wednesday 24 October), any company in the UK will basically have to . . .

Anthony Pell
Oct 24, 2001

Fed Agencies Seek Secure Connections

The fact that two men involved in last month's terrorist attacks were on an FBI watch list and yet were not flagged by the airlines, airline security or other agencies is not lost on federal officials. Responding to the need . . .

Anthony Pell
Oct 23, 2001

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