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- Environmental Protection Agency Computer Security Deemed Faulty.(chemical industry officials demand investigation)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
- CHEMICAL INDUSTRY officials are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to determine whether any of the hundreds of billions of dollars of sensitive business information American companies provide the agency each year has been compromised by att CHEMICAL INDUSTRY officials are asking the Environmental Protection...
- Research articles 2000-02-14
- House Committee Calls for Review Of FDA's Computer Security Practices.(Brief Article)
- AFTER INVESTIGATORS found "serious and pervasive problems" in the Environmental Protection Agency's computer systems, a House committee chairman launched a review of the US Food and Drug Administration's FDA information policies and pra AFTER INVESTIGATORS found "serious and pervasive problems" in the Environmental...
- Research articles 2000-08-28
- EPA Shuts Website Access Temporarily Because of Information Security Concerns.(Environmental Protection Agency)(Brief Article)
- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency has temporarily halted public access to its Internet Website after congressional investigators found that the agency lacks adequate security to protect sensitive and confidential information on its computer systems. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency has temporarily halted public access to its...
- Research articles 2000-02-28
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a mandatory computer security standard for all civilian agencies.(Washington Insider)(Brief Article)
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a mandatory computer security standard for an civilian agencies. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a mandatory computer security standard for an civilian agencies.
- Research articles 2004-03-05
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- Disable Vulnerable Microsoft Feature, FBI Computer Security Agency Advises.
- K-12 schools and institutions of higher education should take steps to protect their networks from potential hacking -- by terrorists or others --through a few simple fixes, government experts said. Many computer users open the door for hackers by installing flawed software, which often...
- Research articles 2002-01-30
- NIST: NIST and NSA to host computer security coconference.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-13 October 1999-NIST: NIST and NSA to host computer security conference C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:121099 Computer experts from around the globe will converge in the Washington, D.C. area next week to address the hottest information security issues of the...
- Research articles 1999-10-13
- U.S. government adds powerful weapon to federal computer security arsenal
- A federal agency has launched a proactive program aimed at preventing, detecting, handling and recovering from computer security attacks on government databases. The federal computer incident response capability, or FedCIRC-managed in partnership by the General Services Administration-focuses on crossagency information sharing so that organizations can benefit from each other's experiences....
- Research articles 1998-12-01
- Hackers sought as allies in war on terrorism and cyber crime
- LAS VEGAS AFP — US federal agents are reaching out to computer hackers for help fighting crime and terrorism as a tug-of-war between privacy and public safety continues on the Internet. The National Security Agency NSA, the Department of Defense and the FBI were among the spy, military and...
- Research articles 2007-08-06
- NASA Network Security Not Good
- While NASA may be focused on keeping its manned space flight plans intact, apparently it has seriously neglected the security of its networks.Watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office issued a 53-page report pretty much ripping the space agency's network security strategy stating that NASA has significant problems protecting the confidentiality,...
- News items 2009-10-23
- Better security boosts agencies' use of wireless devices
- MOBILE AND WIRELESS Stronger policies and practices overcome comcerns about mobile communications In what might have been a symbolic event in the development of mobile communications, President Barack Obama, for whom security is paramount, kept his BlackBerry after taking office — but not before it was locked down with strong...
- News items 2009-08-23
- Goat or Gloat.(Chasers)(Network Associates Inc.'s McAfee Security and Computer Associates International Inc.)(Brief Article)
- Company: McAfee Security, a unit of Network Associates Inc., Santa Clara, Calif. Agency: Grey Advertising, San Francisco Market: Corporate security and network managers Quick chase: Not a bad idea to lure an audience of computer geeks with a couple o Company: McAfee Security, a unit of...
- Research articles 2003-02-10
- GAO Warns Security Gaps Leave EPA's Network Vulnerable.
- SIGNIFICANT SECURITY FLAWS have left Environmental Protection Agency's computer network open to attack by hackers, who could access and manipulate the agency's most sensitive information systems, congressional investigators warn. SIGNIFICANT SECURITY FLAWS have left Environmental Protection Agency's computer network open to...
- Research articles 2000-01-03
- Commerce Committee Subpoenas FDA's Computer Security Records.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
- THE HOUSE Commerce Committee has subpoenaed security audits that the Food and Drug Administration conducted on its computer systems. The agency is refusing to turn the documents over voluntarily. Rep. Thomas Bliley (R-Va.) launched a review of THE HOUSE...
- Research articles 2000-09-18
- Homeland Security admits its own cyber break-in woes
- WASHINGTON AP -- The Homeland Security Department, the lead U.S. agency for fighting cyber threats, suffered more than 800 hacker break-ins, virus outbreaks and other computer security problems over two years, senior officials acknowledged to Congress. In one instance, hacker tools for stealing passwords and other files were...
- Research articles 2007-06-21
- Neumann receives computer system security award.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-19 June 2002-NIST: Neumann receives computer system security award C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06182002 One of the country's pioneering figures in computer security was honored in a special ceremony at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards...
- Research articles 2002-06-19
- ACM Privacy Expert Receives Computer System Security Award
- Peter G. Neumann, a pioneering figure in computer security and a leader in privacy and public policy issues for the Association for Computing Machinery ACM, received the 2002 Computer System Security Award from the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST on June 18, 2002. The award, given...
- Research articles 1970-01-01
- DOD SELECTS SYMANTEC TO PROTECT AGENCY'S COMPUTER NETWORK.(United States Department of Defense )
- Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:SYMC), Cupertino, Calif., a leader in Internet security, has announced that the United States Department of Defense DOD will deploy Symantec's Desktop Firewall to protect against malicious code and cyber attack throughout the agency's desktop computer network worldwide. In addition, the DOD will also...
- Research articles 2002-06-01
- Subway hackers to partner with transit agency
- SAN FRANCISCO - A trio of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who found a way to hack into the Boston subway system's payment cards have agreed to partner with transit officials there to make the system more secure. The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced the agreement Monday, two months after the...
- News items 2009-08-07
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- DARPA Calls for Security Technology The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA has ordered the development of next-generation intrusion detection technology for its computer systems. The agency is seeking technology that could be used by both the U.S. Department of Defense and private industry to protect against physical and...
- Research articles 1999-10-01
- Shocking data security violations at govt. agency leading nation's drug war; DEA situation so serious, other agencies warned against sharing data with it. (Drug Enforcement Administration, General Accounting Office report)
- DEA Situation So Serious, Other Agencies Warned Against Sharing Data With It The federal Drug Enforcement Administration has been rebuked by congressional investigators for computer security so poor it "could endanger lives, undermine investigations and ultimately jeopardize the ...
- Research articles 1992-03-16
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