The U.S. government needs to do a better job of identifying wireless spectrum used by federal agencies that could be repurposed for commercial mobile services, several lawmakers and an auditing agency said Thursday. Several Republican ...
Tags: USA, wireless spectrum, U.S.government, Wireless Carrier
Next month the National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST)plans to put out for public review its draft for a new government encryption standard that,when finalized,is going to compel federal agencies with older websites to replace ...
Tags: NIST, EV certificates, encryption standard, TLS, PIV
Frustrated by the additional expense and difficulties with slower shipping,Seesmart Technologies(SEST)feels it is very important to have more control over the manufacturing process,as a result,it has intended to increase their production of ...
Tags: North America, LED lighting, Seesmart, federal agencies
New email-based attacks, some of which target the aerospace industry, are distributing new variants of the Sykipot information stealing malware, according to researchers from security firm AlienVault. "We have detected a new wave of ...
The U.S. government -- minus key spy operations -- spent $11.36 billion to protect classified data in 2011, according to the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) The number has increased substantially over the past decade, from ...
Tags: classified data, Information Security, secret spy agencies, ISOO's report
In March 2010, Michelle Obama stood on a stage in Washington and leveled a challenge at the food industry's biggest players. "We need you all to step it up," she told a meeting of the Grocery Manufacturers Association. Just a month earlier, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food