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Chertoff promises cybersecurity Manhattan Project

Chertoff promises cybersecurity Manhattan ProjectSo What's The Rush?"Seven and a half years after 9/11, the Bush Administration is ready to take cybersecurty seriously."And if they do as good a job as the Census Bureau has done with computers systems (http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=674)...we'll all be much safer for it...right?RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!! ;-)Feds...

Tags: Government, SECURITY, cybersecurity, White House, Chertoff, Manhattan Project

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

Chertoff: Web is terrorist breeding ground

Chertoff: Web is terrorist breeding groundthe deficitlast I heard, 75% of all US Currency in circulation world-wide were held by the Chinese Government... effectively an economic nuke. China imports a LOT less than it exports, and could pretty much survive without imports... they have 2 kill switches for the world...

Tags: Web, USD, homeland security, intelligence fusion center, Chertoff, Web IS

Discussion threads 2006-10-23

Chertoff: Web could be terror training camp

Chertoff: Web could be terror training campHow many "staffers"?Did I understand this correctly? 35 staffers are going to monitor a network of websites that can't even be counted, and a couple of hundred million american Internet users? Good luck.Guess it's time to declare war on the internet...but where...

Tags: Workforce management, GUESS IT, Chertoff, training, Internet, terror training camp, training camp, U.S. Citizen, government, Web

Discussion threads 2006-10-17

Chertoff floats customer data retention plan

Chertoff floats customer data retention planDo you trust Homeland Stupidity on privacy?In a strange way I trust Al Quaeda more than DHS. Al Quaeda I know would liek to kill me because they so and send out video tape reminders. DHS makes BS statements about respecting rivacy and...

Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Al Quaeda, retention plan, Chertoff

Discussion threads 2006-03-13

Chertoff floats customer data retention plan

Homeland Security director Michael Chertoff proposed requiring companies to retain data about their customers, under some sort of screening program under which filters would be applied to the data, GovExec.com reports. "One of the proposals that was floated and shot down before I got here was screening for...

Tags: Michael Chertoff

Blog posts 2006-03-09

Chertoff speaks out

The new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security addressed the Commonwealth Club recently. I would have fallen asleep before he got to talking about cyber. (For some reason government folks refer to cyber security as "cyber". It sounds strange and jingoistic. I can't figure it out). So I thought...

Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Blog posts 2005-07-29

Additional Resources

DHS scraps virtual fence

On Feb. 22, Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff officially accepted Project 28, Boeing's prototype virtual fence for the Mexico-Arizona border. Less than a week later, Congress' Government Accountability Office said it "did not fully meet user needs and the project's design will not be used as the basis...

Tags: U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Fence, Real Estate, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-24

Attacks escalate on critical U.S. government networks: Will a Manhattan Project work?

Last week Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff outlined plans for a federal Manhattan Project to bolster cyber security. The big question is whether this project will bolster cyber security defenses as attacks on U.S. infrastructure escalate. In a nutshell, Chertoff says federal agencies will cut the...

Tags: China, BusinessWeek, Network, Agency, U.S. Government, Cybersecurity, Attack, Security, Aerospace & Defense, Networking, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-13

DHS to name new CIO

The Department of Homeland Security said this week that it will name Richard Mangogna CIO. Mangogna comes to the DHS from Mason Harriman Group, where he was a senior advisory to the firm's agencies. He also was CIO at JP Morgan Chase, the division head of Business...

Tags: CIO, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Leadership, Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-10

Homeland Security secretary pushes cybersecurity 'Manhattan Project'

At RSA 2008 in San Francisco, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff discusses a new directive focusing on an early warning system to identify cyberattacks before they start.

Tags: Security

Videos 2008-04-09

Chertoff promises cybersecurity Manhattan Project

Seven and a half years after 9/11, the Bush Administration is ready to take cybersecurty seriously. So says Michael Chertoff, head of the Department of Homeland Security. Speaking at the RSA Conference, Chertoff said the government's newfound interest in cybersecurity is massive – "almost like a Manhattan Project," Cox News...

Tags: U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-09

Novell insists it's winning the Linux wars

In the third of a series of interviews by Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin, Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian right insisted his company is not being hurt by its association with Microsoft. "Novell grew 200% in the SUSE Linux marketplace year-over-year from an invoicing perspective," he said. The...

Tags: Novell Inc., Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-31

White House taps Wiki entrepreneur to fight cyberattacks

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rod A. Beckstrom has been tapped to join the Bush Administration to help secure federal networks against attack, the Post reported today. Beckstrom most recently founded Twiki.net, an enterprise Wiki support company, and previously created CATS Software and Mergent Systems. He's also coauthor of a...

Tags: White House, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Cyberattack, Post Story, Hacking, Wiki, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-03-20

The legislation behind a national ID

The legislation behind a national IDWrongThis is very wrong and very dangerous.Those who understand history and Human nature know that potential tyranny from our own government may well be more dangerous than terrorists.It will be required for access to many federal offices and banks will likely follow suit and require...

Tags: Operational accounting, Homeland security, Ollie North, Big Brother, Social Security

Discussion threads 2008-02-04

Real ID postponed for 5 years

The Real ID program, hated by states who would have to pay the costs and civil libertarians, is being pushed back five more years, the Bush Administration announced Friday, The Washington Post reported. The law, which was originally slated to take effect in May of this year, is being...

Tags: U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Regulations, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-01-13

Dude, what happened to my PC?

Dude, what happened to my PC?Good articleDon't know the details, of course, but I think I would have done the same thing if I were the judge. Under the circumstances, disposing of the computer was just plain stupid.RE: Dude, what happened to my PC?Sounds like typical idiot.I am not...

Tags: e-mail, Dude, PC

Discussion threads 2007-12-05

Rudy's brilliant new idea: a virtual border fence

Here we go - another tech-clueless politician believes technology will provide a panacea for difficult problems. Rudy Giuiliani says he wants to build a virtual fence to monitor the whole - or at least much of the - US-Mexico border, the AP reports. The...

Tags: Software, Associated Press, Fence, Border, Rudy, Homeland Security, Tools & Techniques, Government, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-20

DHS accused of collecting union data on travellers

DHS accused of collecting union data on travellersDamn Lies!Best proof I've seen that DHS Sec. Michael Chertoff is lying. I know the U.S. Government is abysmally slow at destroying ANY data that it collects. And it gets replicated in so many places that stamping it out is harder...

Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, union data, Michael Chertoff

Discussion threads 2007-10-15

DHS accused of collecting union data on travellers

Does being a union member now make you a terrorist threat? Labor leaders charge that the Dept. of Homeland Security is collecting union membership data on passengers flying from Europe to the U.S., as part of a data-sharing deal with the European Union, The Washington Post reports. As...

Tags: Data, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Union Membership, Transportation, Homeland Security, Leadership, Government, Management, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-12

Officials say PR campaign may boost Real ID popularity

Officials say PR campaign may boost Real ID popularitygiven sufficient PRcould one could convince others to sell their souls (to the devil, DMV, junta du juor, mao-mart, MS, etc, and et al?)???Just askin', but pretty much thinkin', a resouding YES!:o)RE: Officials say PR campaign may boost Real ID popularitySScrew Chertoff...

Tags: Government, REAL ID, Officials say PR, Real ID popularity

Discussion threads 2007-09-24