U.S. President Barack Obama has a number of IT issues to address, and Webcasting is one such priority, according to authors Iain Thomson and Shaun Nichols.
Thomson says he is hopeful that the Internet will be used much more widely to broadcast government business, while Nichols stresses the need to retool the Digital Millennium Copyright Act [...]

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The U.S. federal government is accelerating its efforts to secure the Internet’s routing system, with plans this year for the Department of Homeland Security to quadruple its investment in research aimed at adding digital signatures to router communications.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to quadruple its investment in research dedicated to securing the [...]

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Analysts hammer away at candidates vying to become the next Secure Hash Algorithm.
Analysts have started the process of testing new Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) candidates for flaws as part of the first round of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) competition to select the next government standard for cryptographic tools. So far, three [...]

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Billions of dollars are lost each year to phishing emails that trick people into exposing personal or corporate information to criminals by posing as legitimate communications from trusted companies and institutions.
Carnegie Mellon University’s Lorrie Faith Cranor says her research group is focused on the best ways to teach people to identify and avoid such scams. [...]

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Shawn Henry, cyber division assistant director at the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), says that beyond weapons of mass destruction, cyberattacks pose the greatest threat to the United States.
U.S. experts warn of a “cybergeddon” in which an advanced society that has most of its major infrastructure systems linked to or completely controlled by computers [...]

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As mentioned in a previous post, AllAnonymity has released version 4.0 of their leading hide IP software, IP Hider. Here is a video that shows how to use it. A higher quality video can be seen on AllAnonymity.com.

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McAfee reports that they have recently observed a noticeable uptick in fake profiles being posted to LinkedIn that harbor links to external sites bearing malware infections. 
After clicking on one of the links to “my URL” or “my blog” on the involved LinkedIn profiles, users are typically redirected to pages that try to lure them into [...]

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