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The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) is calling for the appointment of a “cyber czar” in the wake of the resignations of key White House cybersecurity advisors Howard Schmidt and Richard Clarke. The corporate IT trade group says the issues of cybersecurity are different from physical security, and the ITAA is concerned that no […]

Cyberstalking — stalking individuals via the Internet — is increasing across America according to a study released Thursday by Wired Safety, an online safety and help group. While women remain the most likely targets of cyberstalkers, the study found that female cyberstalkers are also increasing in number. In addition, growing numbers of children are cyberstalking […]

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Tim Muris told Congress Wednesday his agency will continue to address the ever-growing problem of spam, but he is also hopeful that technological fixes and other industry initiatives will provide additional solutions. Speaking before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies in support of a […]

A desperate shortage of qualified IT managers may send Mark Forman, chief information officer for the Bush administration, on a hiring binge this summer. Forman told a technology and counterterrorism forum Thursday that several hundred IT projects in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) are at risk of having funding withheld unless experienced managers […]

Nanotechnology experts told Congress Wednesday that pending legislation in the House and the Senate is a “significant step” in overcoming the current obstacles facing the fledgling industry. Bills in both houses would dedicate more than $2 billion over three years for nanotechnology research and development programs. S. 189, sponsored by Sen. Ron Wyden (D.-Ore.) and […]

The Liberty Alliance gained two major federal players Wednesday with the announcement the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Department of Defense (DoD) are joining the coalition of companies focused on an open-system single sign-on for Web services. A system for verifying logon identities is one of the Bush administration’s 24 e-Government initiatives. The GSA […]

Three U.S. senators have introduced legislation to enhance congressional oversight and public reporting of the FBI’s domestic surveillance efforts, including the agency’s efforts to monitor Internet activity by Americans. The bill would require public accounting of the number of Americans subjected to surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and the number of times […]

Attorney General John Ashcroft wants to expand the government’s domestic surveillance powers under the controversial USA Patriot Act to include reading individual e-mails and monitoring a person’s Web surfing activities. The Patriot Act, which is already under legal attack by privacy groups, was passed following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and gives the Justice Department […]

President Bush secretly signed an order last July directing administration officials to develop the parameters for possible cyber-attacks against enemy computer networks, according to a report in Friday’s Washington Post. The report also says the Pentagon is actively developing “cyber-weapons,” to disable enemy radar, electrical grids and telephone systems. The U.S. has never used cyber […]

American workers who have Internet access both at home and at the office spend more of their personal time using the Internet to do office work at home than they do using the Web for personal purposes on the job, according to a survey conducted by the Center for e-Service at the University of Maryland’s […]