NSA to build $1.5B cybersecurity center near Salt Lake City
The National Security Agency is setting up a new $1.5 billion cybersecurity data center at the Utah National Guard's Camp Williams near Salt Lake City.
China dominates NSA-backed coding contest
Programmers from China and Russia have dominated the TopCoder Open, an annual international competition on everything from writing algorithms to designing components.
Judge dismisses NSA wiretap civil liberties suits
A federal judge on Wednesday threw out 46 civil lawsuits filed against telecommunications companies for allowing the National Security Agency to probe their networks for terrorist communications without approval from a court.
Server Virtualization: Top Five Security Concerns
In surveys of senior-level IT managers, security is consistently one of the top five concerns, along, specifically, with security related to the hot technology of the moment. Most recently the security of virtual servers and virtualized infrastructures ranked near the top of the list -- and rightly so, according to analysts.
Can security processes finally be automated?
Automation of security is a concept with momentum this year as some of the larger federal agencies, including the DoD, NSA, Agriculture and Energy, are pushing for a new direction beyond the current FISMA audit mandate for compliance.
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Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann
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