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Wikileak founder's passport confiscated

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Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks, has had his passport confiscated by immigration officials when he arrived at Melbourne Airport last week.

Alex
May 20, 2010

Hacker Gary McKinnon to be Tried In Britian

Scots computer hacker Gary McKinnon is set to avoid extradition and be tried in Britain, the Scottish Sunday Express can reveal. The 43-year-old

Alex
May 17, 2010

Officials: Hacking was outside eatery

A security breach that has compromised the credit and debit cards of recent customers at the Mellow Mushroom in Warner Robins is believed to have occurred outside the restaurant, police and the restaurant

Alex
May 17, 2010

US response to cyber attacks

The Pentagon would consider a military response in the case of a cyber attack against the US, a defence official said on Wednesday. Asked about the possibility of using military force after a cyber assault, James Miller, under secretary of defence for policy, said: "Yes, we need to think about the potential for responses that are not limited to the cyber domain."

Alex
May 13, 2010

FedRAMP Seeks to Unify Cloud Computing Security Standards Across the U.S. Government

Yesterday, I hosted a panel at the Cloud Computing summit focused on cloud security for the federal government. The panel was made up of some smart folks: Alex Hart from VMware, Bob Wambach from EMC and one of the primary authors of the Cloud Security Alliance guidelines, Chris Hoff from Cisco.

Alex
May 07, 2010

US data-collection bill gets chilly reception

A proposed US congressional bill to regulate the collection of personal data is being almost universally panned, with privacy advocates arguing it's inadequate and pro-business groups saying it goes too far.

Anthony Pell
May 06, 2010

U.S. Treasury Web sites hacked, serving malware

Three Web sites belonging to the U.S. Department of the Treasury have been hacked to attack visitors with malicious software, security vendor AVG says.

Alex
May 04, 2010

NIST Tackles Cybersecurity Education

The National Institute of Standards and Technology will spearhead the national cybersecurity workforce development and awareness campaign. As part of the federal government's Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, much of which was recently declassified, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has been enlisted to spearhead a new nationwide cybersecurity education initiative, the White House and Department of Commerce announced.

Anthony Pell
May 04, 2010

Court OKs Unmasking Identities of Copyright Scofflaws

A federal appeals court is blessing the legal process by which the recording industry and other content owners unmask the identities of alleged peer-to-peer copyright infringers.

Anthony Pell
May 01, 2010

EFF criticizes police conduct in Gizmodo raid

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has criticized California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team for raiding the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen. Police last week served a search warrant at the residence, seizing Chen's computers and documents as part of an investigation into the saga surrounding the leaked iPhone prototype.

Alex
Apr 27, 2010

White House releases open source code

The US government has released open source code that it has been working on. In an unusual move for government transparency, the White House is letting developers get their mitts on its open source code. The US executive branch has been working on its custom code as part of its ongoing efforts to "develop an open platform for Whitehouse.gov."

Alex
Apr 23, 2010

New cyber security chief warns of internet attacks

A general appointed by Barack Obama to ready US defences against cyber attacks has disclosed an alarming increase in activity by hackers and foreign countries, amounting to hundreds of thousands of attempted infiltrations daily.

Alex
Apr 16, 2010

NSF funding creation of secure new OS

Windows, Mac OS and even Linux don't quite cut it when it comes to security in the eyes of University of Illinois at Chicago researchers, who are building an operating system from scratch designed to safeguard computers and applications.

Anthony Pell
Apr 12, 2010

On Net Neutrality

On Tuesday in Washington, DC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the FCC lacks authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks.

Anthony Pell
Apr 08, 2010

Is the U.S. the nation most vulnerable to cyberattack?

Although the United States likely has the best cyberwar capabilities in the world, "that offensive prowess cannot make up for the weaknesses in our defensive position," one-time presidential advisor Richard Clarke argues in his forthcoming book Cyber War.

Anthony Pell
Apr 07, 2010

Bush-authored warrantless wiretapping suffers abrupt defeat

The last of the US warrantless wiretapping cases has come to a rather surprising and abrupt finish. Judge Vaughn Walker hearing the case formerly known as Al-Haramain vs Bush has ruled for the plaintiffs and against the US government on a motion for summary judgment, essentially telling the government it had no case.

Alex
Apr 05, 2010

How IRS Security Flaws Exposes Taxpayers Information

Billions of dollars and loads of personal information are involved in the current heavy tax season managed by Internal Revenue Service (IRS). IRS extensively depends on computerized systems to support its financial and mission-related operations. In a latest report by Government Accountability Office (GOA) it is disconcerting to see that Internal Revenue Service (IRS) fails to secure private information.

Anthony Pell
Mar 25, 2010

Revised draft of Cybersecurity Act introduced in Senate

Lawmakers on Wednesday introduced in the U.S. Senate a revised draft of the Cybersecurity Act, striking out a controversial clause that would have given the president power to shut down the internet.

Anthony Pell
Mar 19, 2010

Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet

The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it

Alex
Mar 04, 2010

RSA: Cybersecurity Czar Outlines Priorities

Cybersecurity coordinator Howard Schmidt also announces release of unclassified version of Obama administration's plan for securing government, private industry networks. During a Town Hall meeting session here today, the nation's new cybersecurity czar mapped out his top priorities in the post and provided a glimpse at how the Obama administration might handle security issues with other countries.

Alex
Mar 03, 2010

Government - Page 24

Addressing Memory Safety Concerns: Actions for Linux Administrators

German State Abandons Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice

White House Warns: Move to Memory-Safe Languages