A programming overhaul of the White House’s website has set the tech world abuzz. For low-techies, it’s a snooze – you won’t notice a thing. The online-savvy administration yesterday switched to open-source code for whitehouse.gov – meaning the …
Source: White House website open for public view, edits – Concord Monitor
Forget the bombs and bullets, and gear up for cyber war. It’s a real and growing threat with the potential for hostile governments and terrorists to hack into the computer networks that power the U.S. economy and run the military, perhaps …
Source: Our views: New research center aids cyber wars fight – Florida Today
MOSCOW – Four UN nuclear inspectors arrived in Iran early Sunday to inspect the country’s second uranium enrichment facility. The delegation from the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), would spend two or three days …
Source: UN nuclear inspectors arrive in Iran – The Gaea Times
Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld:
CIA endorses cloud computing, but only internally — While it can improve security, the agency won’t be outsourcing data to Google or Amazon — Computerworld – WASHINGTON — One of the U.S. government’s strongest advocates of cloud computing is also one of its most secretive operations: the Central Intelligence Agency.
Source: CIA endorses cloud computing, but only internally (Patrick Thibodeau/Computerworld)