Global Dispatches: U.K. to bolster data security
A bill to bolster data security has been filed in the U.K. Parliament; Indian outsourcer Tata has opened a fourth services delivery center in China
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Head of Air Force Cyber Command discusses new role, cyberattack defenses
As the head of its new "Cyber Command," Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Elder is seeking to bolster the military's ability to take on a cyberattack. In this interview with Network World, he discusses how the Air Force is doing it
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Giving Drivers Licenses to Illegal Immigrants
...bolster Michigan's border and document security
In reality, we are a much more secure nation if we do issue driver's licenses and/or state IDs to every resident who applies, regardless of immigration status. Issuing them doesn't make us any less secure, and refusing puts us at risk
The state driver's license databases are the only...
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Microsoft's glasnost on interoperability means more bugs, more exploits
Microsoft's decision to offer more information about its software code to bolster interoperability could mean more exploits in the short term, security experts said. But it could also mean more-secure software down the road
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NSA's Domestic Spying
...bolster other data-sifting efforts, current and former intelligence officials said. "When it got taken apart, it didn't get thrown away," says a former top government official familiar with the TIA program
Two current officials also said the NSA's current combination of programs now largely mirrors the former TIA project. But the NSA offers...
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Got Entropy ?
...bolster the RNGs on my virtual hosts (and other uses). While I was looking into this, it occurred to me that I had an unused TV tuner card, a PVR-350
When a TV is tuned to a channel with no local station, the snow on the screen is RF noise (the same as the static between stations on AM radios). But, for reasons beyond our scope, you never use...
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WellPoint customer information exposed for a year
...bolster our security," she said
Commentary
I just wrote the WellCare breach, and now we have the WellPoint breach. Both are health care companies and both involved unsecured online information. Weird
Anyway. This is definitely a preventable exposure of personal information that should have been identified much earlier. Due to this and other...
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Gates pushed change in security culture at Microsoft
In January 2002, then-Microsoft CEO Bill Gates launched the company's "Trustworthy Computing" effort to bolster security in Microsoft products. While the move set the company on the right path, analysts say more work is needed
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Dan Wallach on Electronic Voting Machines
...bolster our election integrity. Until then, the bottom line is that many jurisdictions in Texas and elsewhere in the country will be using e-voting equipment this November with known security vulnerabilities, and the procedures and controls they are using will not be sufficient to either prevent or detect sophisticated attacks on their...