Sony Under International Government Scrutiny Over PlayStation Network Data Breach (Matt Clark/MTV Multiplayer)
Matt Clark / MTV Multiplayer:Sony Under International Government Scrutiny Over PlayStation Network Data Breach — This week just keeps getting worse for Sony. After shutting down the PlayStation Network for over a week, the company announced yesterday that users’ information (possibly even credit card data) may have been swiped by an unknown assailant.
DROPBOX: We’ll Turn Your Files Over To The Government If They Ask Us To (Steve Kovach/SAI: Silicon Alley Insider)
Steve Kovach / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:DROPBOX: We’ll Turn Your Files Over To The Government If They Ask Us To — This is nothing groundbreaking, but Dropbox has updated its security Terms of Service to say that if the government asks, they will have to decrpyt user’s files and turn them over. — That’s standard [...]
Averted government shutdown spared millions of computer users, too – USA Today
Ken Ammon, chief strategy officer at Xceedium, a company that makes computer-security systems for federal agencies, said its government customers are “prohibited from purchasing anything until they get an approved budget.”
Most Say No to Government Regulation of Search Engines (Rasmussen Reports)
Rasmussen Reports:Most Say No to Government Regulation of Search Engines — Most Americans give high marks to Internet search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing and don’t think the government needs to regulate their responses. — The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 77% …
A.M. Top News: Computer hackers target military, government workers to steal documents – NJ.com
The targeted e-mail attack that surfaced … when at least 74,000 computers were infected with a similar version of the ZueS malware. Analysts revealed the ZueS code can be modified slightly by hackers to bypass anti-virus software and firewalls currently …
Indian government plans to introduce SIM cards with digital certificates (Manan Kakkar/India IT Blog)
Manan Kakkar / India IT Blog:Indian government plans to introduce SIM cards with digital certificates — Communication over email and SMS using cell phones is widespread in India given the mobile penetration. The Indian government is planning to come up with guidelines to issue encrypted SIM cards with digital signatures unique to an individual or [...]
The Truth about $35 Android Tablet from Indian Government (Gaurav Shukla/Androidos.in)
Gaurav Shukla / Androidos.in:The Truth about $35 Android Tablet from Indian Government — Quick Note: What you are going to read now, I had never expected to write that but what can I do; the desire for cheap publicity has landed our government in this. I just wish that i am not true, but facts [...]
Stealthy Government Contractor Monitors U.S. Internet Providers, Says It Employed Wikileaks Informant (Andy Greenberg/The Firewall)
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:Stealthy Government Contractor Monitors U.S. Internet Providers, Says It Employed Wikileaks Informant — A semi-secret government contractor that calls itself Project Vigilant surfaced at the Defcon security conference Sunday with a series of revelations: that it monitors the traffic …
Government, Congress eye greater power in cyber attacks – SecurityInfoWatch
The government may have to take “extraordinary measures” in responding to a cyber attack that affects critical public or privately-run computer networks, a senior Homeland Security official said. National Cyber Security …
Department of Justice computer security, Bureau of Prison’s sentry system: Hearing before the Government Information, Justice, and Agriculture Subcommittee … Congress, first session, September 11, 1991
Department of Justice computer security, Bureau of Prison’s sentry system: Hearing before the Government Information, Justice, and Agriculture Subcommittee … Congress, first session, September 11, 1991
