FRAMINGHAM (01/14/2004) - A court in the Eastern District of Texas Wednesday denied a motion filed by Electronic Data Systems Corp. to dismiss a class-action shareholder lawsuit alleging that two former top executives knowingly misrepresented company earnings and the health of the multibillion-dollar Navy/Marine Corps Intranet contract.
WASHINGTON (12/22/2003) - With the Democratic Party a month from the first caucus in the presidential nominating process, the high-tech industry has cast a vote that so far favors President George W. Bush, along with a select group of influential members of the U.S. Congress.
Despite a significant increase in reported security incidents over the past year, a survey released this week by two industry groups reveals a high level of confidence on the part of IT security professionals.
NEW YORK (10/29/2003) - The war on terrorism will be a "war to the death" likely last several decades, requiring the government and the private sector to focus immediately on making critical infrastructures and systems more resilient rather than immune to deliberate attacks, a former CIA director said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (10/28/2003) - The chairman of the Senate committee that oversees the federal contracting process wants to know why several government agencies continue to do business with the telecommunications company responsible for the largest corporate accounting scandal in U.S. history.
WASHINGTON (10/24/2003) - New legislation being drafted in the U.S. House of Representatives, which could be introduced as early as next week, would require all publicly traded companies to conduct independent computer security assessments and report the results yearly in their annual reports.
WASHINGTON (10/23/2003) - A politically and racially charged report on workforce diversity issues at the U.S. Department of Justice that was supposed to conceal the most sensitive information from public disclosure was posted in full on the Internet this week as a result of a technical oversight by DOJ officials.
FRAMINGHAM (10/17/2003) - One of the nation's largest insurers is throwing its weight behind a public/private partnership that claims it has a better answer to the challenge of sharing security-related information than the U.S. Department of Homeland Security does.
TAMPA, FLORIDA (10/16/2003) - More than 40 CIOs (chief information officers) from the energy industry this week agreed that cyber and terrorist threats to their infrastructures are on the rise. But like executives in other sectors of the economy, they said their industry is being pressed to protect all things all the time -- with little or no assistance from the government.
NEW YORK (10/10/2003) - A recent spate of laws stemming from two concerns -- terrorism and personal privacy -- has many banking institutions scrambling to understand the implications for IT security.
WASHINGTON (10/08/2003) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), along with its Canadian and British counterparts and the SANS (System Administration, Networking and Security) Institute, Wednesday released a list of the top 20 security vulnerabilities most often exploited by criminal hackers.
WASHINGTON (10/07/2003) - The Department of Homeland Security during the past week has jump-started an aggressive biometric deployment program to help fill gaps in the U.S. border security perimeter.
SAN FRANCISCO (10/06/2003) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) cybersecurity division is spearheading an aggressive new project to create a real-time cybersituation-awareness system, a senior DHS official said this week.
FRAMINGHAM (10/03/2003) - Despite the government's recent efforts to integrate dozens of watch list databases, terrorists may still be slipping through numerous cracks in the nation's homeland defenses by stealing identities and using computers to create fraudulent travel documents, officials told Congress.
FRAMINGHAM (10/03/2003) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity division is spearheading an aggressive new project to create a real-time cybersituation-awareness system, a senior DHS official said this week.