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U.S. Government to Get Cybersecurity Chief

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The Bush administration plans to appoint a new cybersecurity chief for the government inside the Homeland Security Department, replacing a position once held by a special adviser to the president. Industry leaders worry the new post won't be powerful enough. . .

Anthony Pell
May 27, 2003

Antispam measure gains steam in House

Antispam sentiment on Capitol Hill is growing, with a new proposal in the House of Representatives promising to slap the worst bulk e-mailers with prison terms and millions of dollars in fines.The bill, called the Reduction in Distribution of Spam Act, is sponsored by Rep. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and has the support of two powerful committee chairmen, making it the most likely measure to prevail in the House. . . .

Anthony Pell
May 23, 2003

If We Run Out of Batteries, This War is Screwed.

It's early April, days before the fall of Baghdad, and a convoy of trucks from the 11th Signal Brigade is rolling through southern Iraq. The mission: establish a digital beachhead in central Iraq. Without this advance node and a handful like . . .

Anthony Pell
May 22, 2003

NIST Releases Draft Security Standard

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Security Division today released the draft of a new Federal Information Processing Standard, FIPS 199, which dictates how agencies should categorize their systems based on the security risk faced by each. . .

Anthony Pell
May 19, 2003

Feds Prime New Antispam Weapon

Federal and state law enforcement agencies pledged to take an aggressive new approach to fighting spam: identifying "open relay" mail servers that serve as conduits for massive quantities of junk e-mail. . .

Anthony Pell
May 16, 2003

Feds To Refocus on Cybersecurity

The Department of Homeland Security soon will establish an office to execute the Bush administration's cybersecurity strategy, a move that may serve to blunt criticism that the agency has not devoted enough resources and attention to Internet security. . .

Anthony Pell
May 15, 2003

Information Security and the Public Sector-An Introduction to the Criminal Law of Information Securi

This is the third part of a four-part series looking at U.S. information security laws and the way those laws affect security professionals. This installment begins the discussion of information security in the public sector. Government's involvement with information security takes . . .

Anthony Pell
May 13, 2003

Governments are latching on to Linux

As Linux makes inroads into the servers of Asian businesses, governments are also climbing on the open-source bandwagon, but with varying degrees of interest. Some have been extremely vocal about their support for Linux and even formed alliances to customize and promote the open-source operating system (OS), while others have opted for a more quiet, wait-and-see approach. . . .

Anthony Pell
May 12, 2003

Senate Broadens Powerful U.S. Terror Surveillance Law

The Senate easily passed a measure Thursday expanding a powerful surveillance law, used in spy and terrorism investigations, to allow U.S. agents to wiretap lone foreigners who can't be linked to a terror organization or government. Currently, U.S. law enforcement . . .

Anthony Pell
May 12, 2003

DHS Poised For Mock Terror Attacks

The information technology team at the Homeland Security Department (DHS) will be working around the clock next week to monitor an exercise simulating a terrorist attack on Seattle and Chicago, the department's chief information officer said today. Steve Cooper said . . .

Anthony Pell
May 08, 2003

Too Many Watch Lists

While errors in the Transportation Security Administration's "no-fly" list have famously raised the ire of innocent air travelers misidentified as terrorists, it's far from the only government watch list in use. In a report released this week, the General Accounting . . .

Anthony Pell
May 05, 2003

Schmidt's Exit Leaves Cybersecurity Void

White House cybersecurity adviser Howard Schmidt will step down from his post at the end of the month. The move comes only two months after Richard Clarke resigned as special adviser to the president for cyberspace security, shortly after the release . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 30, 2003

Public/private Security Partnership Gets Rocky

The changing of the cybersecurity guard at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), coupled with complacency on the part of some corporate executives, has put a higher premium on information-sharing and cooperation between the private sector and the government. . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 29, 2003

Pentagon Taps EDS For $258 Million Survivable IT Program

The Pentagon today awarded Plano, Texas-based Electronic Data Systems Corp. a contract to develop and install a survivable IT and communications infrastructure capable of withstanding a future terrorist attack on a scale similar to or greater than the Sept. 11, 2001, . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 23, 2003

White House Cybersecurity Adviser Resigns

White House cybersecurity adviser Howard Schmidt announced his resignation Monday, the second person to leave the post in three months. Schmidt was the former chief of security at Microsoft Corp. before taking the post in February. He succeeded Richard Clarke, . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 22, 2003

HSD Seeks To Secure Data it Gets From the Private Sector

The Homeland Security Department has proposed rules under which it would protect systems information it receives from the private sector. The proposed rule explicitly applies to hardware and software that makes up critical-infrastructure systems. The government relies on many such . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 18, 2003

Uncle Sam: Share Your System's Secrets

The Department of Homeland Security is hoping to convince technology and telecommunications companies that it's safe to share information about infrastructure vulnerabilities with the federal government. This week, the new department published a set of proposed regulations designed to convince . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 17, 2003

Homeland Security To Fill Privacy Post

The former privacy officer of Internet advertising giant DoubleClick will be the Department of Homeland Security's first privacy czar, Bush administration officials said. The administration will appoint Nuala O'Connor Kelly to the privacy post, where she would be responsible for . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 17, 2003

Feds Falling Short on Cybersecurity

The new Department of Homeland Security lacks the resources and expertise to execute the core elements of the Bush administration's cybersecurity plan, the president's former cybersecurity adviser told Congress today. . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 10, 2003

Internet Privacy and Hacking Focus of Congress

Privacy on the Internet is the focus of a new Senate bill and an upcoming House joint hearing. In both cases, the concern is with the vulnerability of personally identifiable information and the increasing ease that such information can be obtained . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 04, 2003

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