Digital Agenda: Homeland security roundtable
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Is the U.S. investing in the proper technologies to fight terrorism? Leading figures such as Jim Barksdale give their insights.
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Homeland Security ditches a 2003 data-mining program created to monitor immigration, customs, border protection and biological defense after investigators find it was tested with data about real people without meeting privacy requirements. DHS says the Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement program was too time-consuming to use.
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Letter: Setting the record straight on network location awareness and Vista Group Policy.
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Amid increasing concerns about possible terrorist attacks leading up to the presidential election, the Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin Monday to the 50 states and the District of Columbia, ...
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Not paranoia, just awareness US cyber-security policies may give US intelligence agencies access to any email, file transfer or web search.â¦
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Competing FBI and Secret Service operations clash, as the feds prepare to strike deep at the heart of international cybercrime rackets. Last in a three-part series by Kim Zetter.Plus:
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The Justice Department begins a nationwide crackdown against spammers. Also: The EU extends its review of Microsoft's deal with Time Warner & hellip;. Sprint finds a third cable partner to offer VoIP & hellip;. and more.
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Computer security pros descend on Washington, D.C., confab to talk risks, hacks and digital self-defense.
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The Internet's rapidly evolving impact on global politics, business and everyday life will be the focus of a conference in Geneva, as decision makers seek to map out future trends and address growing concerns about online security.
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Officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will hold a hearing on Capitol Hill on June 20 to discuss the findings of an investigation into the agency's own problems in battling electronic attacks and IT systems intrusions.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will host a invite-only conference two months from now that will bring together security experts from law enforcement, Internet service providers, and the technology industry. The Internet Security Operations and Intelligence (ISOI) workshop will be held on August 27 and 28 at the Academy for Educational Development in Washington D.C. It is expected to draw about 240 participants who will engage in a frank discussion of the latest trends in cybercrime, said Gadi Evron, a security evangelist with Beyond Security who is one of the event's planners. "It's an organized group of volunteers from all across the industry, governments, and services," he said via instant message. "All trusted people, all people who do something extra than their job... We respond to international threats and mitigate them, and establish global cooperation across borders daily." The conference will be hosted by the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team, part of the Department of Homeland Security. This group has met previously in hush-hush events hosted on the campuses of Microsoft and Cisco Systems, and has helped in the response to a number of cyber-crime incidents including the denial of service attacks in Estonia and the recent compromise of Miami's Dolphin Stadium Web site, whichÂ was hackedÂ just days before the stadium played host to the National Football League's Super Bowl game. Because the conference is attended by a pre-screened audience (the press is not invited, thank you very much), presenters at the ISOI workshops offer a deeper level of technical detail than at other events, said Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research with Websense, who is presenting in August. "It really helps communicate the struggles on both sides of the coin." Hubbard will be discussing a new tool he has developed for detecting infections of social networking Web sites, called HoneyJax. Similar to a "honeypot" computer, which is designed to lure cyber-attackers, HoneyJax "allows you to track exploits in the Web 2.0 world and helps assist in the identification of misuse of these technologies" Hubbard said. Other scheduled talks will cover topics such as theÂ Estonian cyber-attacks, the use of Web-based mail for spam, and "Phishing and the IRS." Speakers will be from organizations such as Cisco, AOL, McAfee, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the Computer Emergency Response Team of Estonia. The workshops attract a "pretty good spread of people," said Exploit Prevention Labs Chief Technology Officer Roger Thompson, another presenter. "It's really just a forum for security professionals in different disciplines to get together and talk over a beer." Â
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Chertoff: technology will make privacy better The Department of Homeland Security fronted up as a reasonable gent yesterday when it granted state civil servants extra time to implement the Real ID Act.â¦
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The UNH Cyber Threat Calculator was shown at the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Conference in St. Louis in January. The calculator spits out results after weighing a threat's intent, technological capabilities and economic resources.
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This third and final article in the Metasploit series covers the msfcli scripting interface as well as the intuitive web interface to the Framework. The article also discusses what's new with version 2.2, and then introduces the exploit development process through an example.
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Voice over IP, online presentations, and multiparty video conferencing under consideration.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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The Department of Homeland Security  named an acting U.S. cybersecurity chief on Thursday as  Congress weighed whether to give the position greater clout to  fight hackers, viruses and other online threats.