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Alliance Asks Congress To Consider VoIP Vulnerabilities In Updated Telecom Act

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The Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA) has called on Congress to include security recommendations related to securing voice over IP (VoIP) technologies as it reviews the 1996 Telecommunications Act.

Brittany Day
May 11, 2005

House subcommittee elevates cybersecurity position

A bill that would create a high-level cybersecurity official in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was approved Wednesday by a House of Representatives subcommittee.

Brittany Day
May 06, 2005

Business inaction could lead to data privacy laws

U.S. businesses for years have urged the government to let them set computer-security standards of their own, but their inability to do so could now prompt Congress to step in, experts say. Those who worry that regulation may stifle innovation say the business community may have already missed an opportunity to prove the government's help is not needed.

Brittany Day
May 02, 2005

NY AG Spitzer Targets Hackers

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has called for tougher penalties on computer criminals. He wants to prosecute people who gain access to computers surreptitiously, but who do not do any harm. The proposed legislation would also make encrypting information a crime if it concealed some other crime.

Brittany Day
Apr 19, 2005

U.S. Military's Elite Hacker Crew

The U.S. military has assembled the world's most formidable hacker posse: a super-secret, multimillion-dollar weapons program that may be ready to launch bloodless cyberwar against enemy networks -- from electric grids to telephone nets. The group's existence was revealed during a U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last month. Military leaders from U.S. Strategic Command, or Stratcom, disclosed the existence of a unit called the Joint Functional Component Command for Network Warfare, or JFCCNW.

Brittany Day
Apr 18, 2005

Linux programmer wins legal victory

A Linux programmer reported a new victory in a German court Thursday in enforcing the General Public License, which governs countless projects in the free and open-source software realms. A Munich district court on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction barring Fortinet, a maker of multipurpose security devices, from distributing products that include a Linux component called "initrd" that Harald Welte helped write.

Brittany Day
Apr 14, 2005

Universities To Aid U.S. Cybersecurity Effort

Experts from a consortium of colleges will lead a far-reaching effort to keep the nation's computer data safe from cyberattack, the National Science Foundation announced Monday. The effort comes after a flurry of security breaches have dramatized the vulnerability of a society that increasingly entrusts its secrets to computers.

Brittany Day
Apr 12, 2005

First Spam Felony Case Nets 9-Year Jail Term

A Virginia judge sentenced a spammer to nine years in prison Friday in the nation's first felony prosecution for sending junk e-mail, though the sentence was postponed while the case is appealed.

Brittany Day
Apr 11, 2005

U.S. government agencies turn to Linux

As government agencies are being forced to do more with a smaller budget more agencies are turning to the open source movement for a solution.In Mississippi three counties and 30 agencies formed a jail management system to pool all law enforcement and homeland security forces together using Linux.

Benjamin D. Thomas
Apr 07, 2005

Senators Address Spyware, Spam

Laws against theft don't end stealing, and laws against the ills of the Internet age aren't likely to stop the spread of computer spyware, the Legislature's Judiciary Committee was told Friday. But such laws are worth passing, said Alex Nicoll, associate director of technologies for the Nebraska University Consortium on Information Assurance. The spyware programs "are causing people grief. They are causing people loss. We should not just say we should give up," Nicoll said at a committee hearing.

Benjamin D. Thomas
Mar 23, 2005

The National Security Agency Declassified

Internet wiretapping mixes "protected" and targeted messages, Info Age requires rethinking 4th Amendment limits and policies, National Security Agency told Bush administration "Transition 2001" report released through FOIA, Highlights collection of declassified NSA documents Posted on Web by National Security Archive, GWU National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 24

Brittany Day
Mar 13, 2005

Managed Security Service Expands Compliance Capabilities

“RES’ Information Security and Threat Management solution provides a perfect blend of best practices and industry standards that our enterprise customers need to comply with growing regulatory requirements,

Benjamin D. Thomas
Mar 03, 2005

Feds square off with organized cyber crime

Computer intruders are learning to play well with others, and that's bad news for the Internet, according to a panel of law enforcement officials and legal experts speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week. Christopher Painter, deputy director of the Justice Department's computer crime section, spoke almost nostalgically of the days when hackers acted "primarily out of intellectual curiosity." Today, he says, cyber outlaws and serious fraud artists are increasingly working in concert, or are one and the same. "What we've seen recently is a coming together of these two groups," said Painter.

Benjamin D. Thomas
Feb 24, 2005

US to tighten nuclear cyber security

Federal regulators are proposing to add computer security standards to their criteria for installing new computerized safety systems in nuclear power plants. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) quietly launched a public comment period late last month on a proposed 15-page update to its regulatory guide "Criteria for Use of Computers in Safety Systems of Nuclear Power Plants." The current version, written in 1996, is three pages long and makes no mention of security.

Benjamin D. Thomas
Jan 26, 2005

FBI retires its Carnivore

FBI surveillance experts have put their once-controversial Carnivore Internet surveillance tool out to pasture, preferring instead to use commercial products to eavesdrop on network traffic, according to documents released Friday.

Joe Shakespeare
Jan 17, 2005

Homeland Security Offers Online Tool To Assess Stadium Security

Fashioned after online self-assessment tools used by authorities to assess vulnerabilities at airports, the Department of Homeland Security on Friday unveiled software it developed to let officials identify vulnerabilities and assess the security at stadiums with large seating capacity.

Joe Shakespeare
Jan 11, 2005

Linux in Government: How Security Exploits Threaten Government Infrastructures

The Linux in Government series has taken a new format for 2005. This year's articles will provide fundamental information to government technologists about Linux and open-source software. Although we will continue to inform you about agencies and projects specifically using open-source solutions, we also are going to provide information about open-source resources available to governments.

Joe Shakespeare
Jan 10, 2005

Security workers praise Sarbanes-Oxley

Many security workers feel that government regulations aimed at protecting IT networks from threats are working, according to new survey.

Joe Shakespeare
Dec 27, 2004

Army focuses on cyber protection

A recently issued Army white paper, "Fight the Network," provides a new framework for the Signal Regiment, the service's communications organization, as it changes to support lighter, more mobile warfighting units. Army information technology officials devised the document to help foster a different mind-set for communications personnel in defending and managing the service's networks, said Gordon Van Vleet, public affairs officer for the service's Network Enterprise Technology Command/Ninth Army Signal Command at Fort Huachuca, Ariz. Netcom officials oversee the operation, management and protection of the Army's networks.

Brittany Day
Dec 24, 2004

Groups fight Internet wiretap push

Companies and advocacy groups opposed to the FBI's plan to make the Internet more accommodating to covert law enforcement surveillance are sharpening a new argument against the controversial proposal: that law enforcement's Internet spying capabilities are just fine as it is.

Joe Shakespeare
Dec 24, 2004

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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