Are the Internet's 'Wild West' days near an end?
Executives from Microsoft and RSA are proposing collective schemes with centralized authority for ensuring trust in an increasingly complex Internet.
Smart phones in the enterprise: Can't keep them out, so manage them
A pilot program at Unisys aims to assume some control over the evolution of mobile computing that is bringing more personal devices such as smart phones into the enterprise and assign responsibilities to both the users and administrators.
What's missing from cloud security
Cloud computing is moving from early adoption to an operational phase, but it still must struggle to stay ahead of security concerns, says Jim Reavis of the Cloud Security Alliance.
Cyber war dominates the landscape at RSA conference
With the establishment of the U.S. Cyber Command and the emergence of WikiLeaks wikiwars, the new domain in warfare overtakes cloud computing as this year’s hot security topic.
Death, taxes – and spam in your inbox
After a brief respite, spam appears to be making a comeback. Like the poor, it will always be with us.
Many overseas voters still can't cast a ballot, study finds
The use of online technology for the request and delivery of blank ballots helped to make modest improvements for military and overseas voters in the 2010 election, but many problems remain, according to a post-election survey by the Overseas Vote Foundation.
Fill out your brackets: College teams set for spring cyber showdown
Schools from across the country are sending teams to nine regional competitions over the next two months. Winners will compete in April in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition in San Antonio both for bragging rights and job opportunities.
Fresh advice on building safer software
SAFECode, an industry group focused on reliability of commercial software, has released a second edition of its best practices for developing secure software, adding more specific data on validating results.
Lego robot takes a shot at safe-cracking
The robot is designed to open combination locks by brute force by testing possible combinations.
Internet Society sets the date for stress-testing IPv6
World IPv6 Day will provide a chance to see where the leaks and points of failures are in the Internet's IPv6 infrastructure.
Two years later, U.S. still not prepared to secure cyberspace, report warns
Two years after releasing its report on "Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency," the Center for Strategic and International Studies warns that little progress has been made in improving the nation's cybersecurity.
Will feds trust nonfederal ID card for contractors and agency partners?
The CIO Council has established specifications for nonfederal credentials that are interoperable with PIV cards and can be accepted by agencies. The first commercial card vendors recently received certification to issue the cards.
Why the time is now for IPv6 (and it's not for lack of IPv4 addresses)
IPv4 addresses won't disappear immediately, but their depletion will signal the growth of real-world use of IPv6 and infrastructure. And service and content providers will need to become serious about supporting the new protocols.
Will agencies 'dance with the Ewoks' on IPv6?
OMB has set deadlines for enabling the new Internet protocols on government systems, but agencies must begin dealing with operational challenges immediately.
ID management’s weakness: ‘There is no demand’
As the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace nears completion, government and industry experts say the technology for strong ID authentication exists, but getting it broadly adopted remains difficult.
Egypt's Internet blackout reignites kill switch debate
Senators plan to reintroduce a comprehensive cybersecurity bill, but recent events in Egypt have reignited controversy over the potential for a presidential kill switch for the Internet.
NIST's how-to on securing virtual machines
The benefits of virtualization can be offset by added complexity and security risks; NIST has released guidelines for addressing these risks.
IPv4: The final farewell begins
The final distribution of IPv4 addresses, expected to be made to Regional Internet Registries this week, means that the hopper supplying the current generation of Internet addresses will be empty and future address allocations will be made with next-generation IPv6 addresses.
National competition puts high schoolers to the cyber warrior test
The Cyber Foundations Competition is an effort by the U.S. Cyber Challenge and the SANS Institute to identify talented high school students with interests in cybersecurity and help provide a career path for them.
NIST guide tackles security challenges of public cloud computing
Cloud computing offers the promise of greater efficiency and flexibility, but it also presents security challenges. NIST has issued draft guidelines for addressing those challenges.
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