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Like it or not, more federal workers telecommuting

2008-01-23 00:00:00 by Ann Bednarz in Network World on Security
 
Boosting the ranks of federal employees who telecommute is a slow, sometimes painful process, despite recent legislative efforts to speed up adoption, including the proposed Telework Enhancement Act, which was approved by the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in November
 
Tags: recent legislative efforts, telework enhancement act, governmental affairs committee, homeland security, painful process, federal employees, ranks, telecommute, speed
 
 
 
 
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Viewpoint Two: The recession wont affect security folks

2008-02-13 12:51:37 by Paul Stamp in Security & Risk Management
 
...governmental and contractual requirements. Neither of these two factors are hugely dependent on economic cycles OK, so therell be less cash floating around for the big banks to fill their labs with new product evaluations, but does that really affect the majority of us? I would say not. Yes, were going to have to show more business...
 
Tags: security, security folks, majority, business, vast majority, business justification, streamline process, contractual requirements, affect
 
 
 
 
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Chip & PIN terminals vulnerable to simple attacks

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2008-02-26 20:33:32 by Saar Drimer in Light Blue Touchpaper
...governmental Certification Bodies do not do quality control This process causes a race to the bottom, with PED developers able to choose labs that will approve rather than improve PEDs, at the lowest price. Clearly, the certification process needs to be more open to the cardholders, who suffer from the fraud. It also needs to be fixed such...
 
Tags: peds, popular peds, protect cardholder data, peds processor, pin, cardholder data, data, encrypt data, governmental certification bodies
 
 
 
 
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Privacy and Power

2008-03-11 06:09:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...governmental bodies, also make sense. These all foster liberty Ubiquitous surveillance programs that affect everyone without probable cause or warrant, like the National Security Agency's warrantless eavesdropping programs or various proposals to monitor everything on the internet, foster control. And no one is safer in a political system of...
 
Tags: relative power differential, relative power, power, relative power levels, power levels, additional power, power imbalance, officer enormous power, officer
 
 
 
 
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Week in review

2007-03-11 07:41:17 by Perry Carpenter in Security Renaissance
 
...governmental agencies, privacy rights advocates, and legislative action Over the next several weeks, Ill be providing my views on what this means for the security community. This is bigger than Wal-Mart the security industry will be put in the position of having to explain the nature of and need for penetration testing, forensic...
 
Tags: security, security smack-down, security industry, industry, security postures, security professional, security renaissance, security community, security catalyst
 
 
 
 
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Chinese Hacktivists Waging People's Information Warfare Against CNN

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2008-04-22 02:25:00 by HASH0x8b20ee4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...governmental organisations, We only private network enthusiasts. However, we have a patriotic heart, We will absolutely not permit any person to discredit our motherland under any name, We are committed to attack some spreading false information, and malicious slander, libel, support Tibet independence site User to a black CNN website suffer...
 
Tags: cnn, cnn sub-station, flood cnn, sports web site, site, psyops anti-cnn, contact address sports, contact, sports
 
 
 
 
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Lock'em up and throw away the key...

2008-05-07 08:32:50 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
In a typical governmental knee-jerk response, the U.K. House of Lords is considering making the loss of data a criminal offense
 
Tags: criminal offense, house, lords, loss, data
 
 
 
 
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JetBlue Buys Airfone's Network

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2008-06-08 21:47:04 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...governmental and corporate ("general aviation") customers. JetBlue's LiveTV won the smaller of two licenses (1 MHz); AirCell won the 3 MHz auction. AirCell built its own network (an expansion of previous general aviation service), and is launching very shortly with Virgin America and America Airlines Ostensibly this purchase allows JetBlue a...
 
Tags: network, airfone, jetblue, ancient airfone network, verizon, verizon notes, auction, auction results, assume verizon airfone
 
 
 
 
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Metro Round-Up: Aurora (Ill.), Bay Area (Calif.), Santa Fe Says Yes-Fi

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2008-06-12 10:13:56 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...governmental network advocates: I haven't tracked the political fortunes of elected and appointed officials who pinned their star to Wi-Fi's glow, but I have to imagine both those that have suffered removal from office or who have remained in position are infinitely less likely to push plans in the near future that have any parallels with the...
 
Tags: santa, metrofi, metrofi gear, joins metrofi cities, aurora, service, downtown service, approve wi-fi service, santa clara
 
 
 
 
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Real ID, Real Problem

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