Three service providers that use equipment from Huawei have said they will take strong precautions to ensure the security of their networks in response to a congressional report on this week that said carriers should not buy from Huawei or ...
Tags: Congressional, Huawei, security, ZTE
Rice has drawn heavy fire from Republicans for remarks she made in the aftermath of a September 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. "I am highly ...
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Computerworld - The specter that Congress will reauthorize the controversial FISA Amendments Act of 2008 without any changes to its sweeping spying provisions is evoking cries of alarm from advocacy and privacy groups. Many say the law, ...
The Secure Decisions Division of Applied Visions and developer of MeerCAT , a visualization toolkit for wireless network security, has been selected as a finalist in the Government Security News (GSN) 2012 Homeland Security Awards ...
Tags: MeerCAT, wireless network security, network, IT security
A U.S. congressional committee appeared to come away still in doubt about the security of networking equipment from Chinese firms Huawei Technologies and ZTE after holding a Thursday hearing in which the two companies tried to dispel ...
Tags: Huawei, ZTE, U.S.Officials, Spying Concerns
The U.S. Air Force is openly soliciting technologies that would improve its capability of launching cyberattacks and gathering intelligence during cyberwarfare operations. "The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center invites concept papers ...
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When North Korea s Kim Jong-un commemorates a year of his rule next week, he will be able to declare he has fulfilled the country s long-held dream of becoming a "space power". Sharing the limelight with the 29-year old will be three ...
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The Iranian government appears to have blocked access to Google’s search engine and Gmail webmail service from inside Iran, according to Internet users there. A security researcher going by the Twitter handle of @0xal reported that ...
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IDG News Service - A new website, set up by Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and some other civil rights activists, aims to crowdsource donations for WikiLeaks and three other organizations. The launch of the Freedom of the ...
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The Internet, long viewed as a tool to expand freedom, is an equally effective tool for repression. That is just as true in the United States as anywhere else. Security guru Bruce Schneier noted in a recent blog post, citing Evgeny ...
Tags: Cyber spying, Middle East, Skype, Spying, Syria, video
A year-long investigation by a U.S. congressional committee has reportedly concluded that Huawei Technologies and ZTE pose a security threat to the nation, and the committee is advising U.S. firms to buy networking gear from other vendors. ...
Tags: Huawei Technologies, ZTE, security threat, networking gear
The U.S. government needs a comprehensive doctrine addressing cyber security instead of the current patchwork of policies and agencies dealing with cyber threats, according to a group of experts. The lack of an overarching cyber security ...
An executive order issued by the White House last Friday seeks to bolster the government's ability to keep its emergency communications capabilities intact during national emergencies. But one privacy advocacy group expressed concern that ...
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Intel hopes to deliver performance and power-efficiency breakthroughs to servers with the new Xeon Phi family of processors, the first model of which is now shipping to customers, the company said on Monday. Chips in the Xeon Phi range, ...
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TITUS,the leading provider of security and data governance solutions,has been selected for the second consecutive year as a finalist for the Microsoft Public Sector-Public Safety and National Security Partner of the Year Award. "We are ...