Government

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) have been making headlines, but what are they, exactly? Here are the facts.

A tour of ICS-CERT facilities at Idaho National Labs. Meet the people who will get the call when the next Stuxnet worm strikes.

This is a story of two federal government data center projects: One, undertaken by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), met its schedule and budget. The other, a U.S. Air Force initiative, went over budget and was late.

The attacks on September 11, 2001 showed the world that the worst possible scenario can actually happen. Here's a look at how far we've come in the 10 years since -- and how far we have yet to go.

If there is a cyberwar with China, as described in a new hypothetical scenario, it will not necessarily involve power grids being knocked offline and planes falling from the sky.

Like ERP, the deployment of electronic health records and systems depends on more than the software itself. Good applications may perform poorly if not carefully customized and integrated. Consider the well-publicized debacle suffered by San Francisco when it deployed an electronic medical records system called Avatar, designed to streamline billing for state-supported behavioral health programs

The top stories of 2010 show that the PC for many people around the world has already become just one of several devices used to tap the Internet and a world of applications for entertainment and business -- and that increasingly, the main Internet access device is not a PC.

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management wants to collect (and store) healthcare claims of millions of Americans. How concerned about privacy should you be?

Computerworld lists five reasons why proposals and legislation aimed at limiting the outsourcing of U.S. jobs are likely to fail.

While popular in the halls of Congress, the additional H-1 B visa fees tacked on to the most recent immigration appropriations bill drew mostly criticism outside of Washington. Some critics say it went too far; others say it didn't go far enough. Most agreed that the move would do little to protect or create U.S. IT jobs.

Cost savings are still the primary driver for organizations choosing open-source software, according to Jay Lyman, an analyst at The 451 Group. However, that impression seems to change after adoption, when more users report that flexibility is the primary benefit they enjoy rather than cost savings, he says.

Rush to qualify for federal money could yield chaos.