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- Why is fear-mongering such a popular security sales tactic?
- In this month's CIO magazine, Bruce Schneier publishes one of his best columns ever. "How to Sell Security" starts with a common-sense argument about the psychological dynamics of why and how we as humans respond to sales pitches. It ends with this astute observation about why some computer security companies...
- Tags: Sales, Security, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- TIA 2.0: NSA conducts data sweeps and mining without oversight
- In a front-page piece on Monday, Siobhan Gorman of the Wall Street Journal argued that the NSA has been building, over the past several years, the same capability that was planned for Total Information Awareness. TIA was an "experimental Pentagon antiterrorism program meant to vacuum up electronic...
- Tags: U.S., Phone, Story, NSA, E-mail, Government, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- FBI has more plans for criminal datasharing
- Are you ready for the "one-stop shop" of nationwide local, state and federal criminal records? Cops around the country are salivating for the Justice Department's National Data Exchange or N-DEx, says the Washington Post. Federal authorities have high hopes for the N-DEx system, which is to begin...
- Tags: Agency, Suspect, FBI, Federal Government, Advertising & Promotion, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Databases, Government, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- 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
- Battling terrorism with computers and math
- A few days ago I saw this NSF press release about Dark Web, a project by Hsinchun Chen and his Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Arizona to systematically collect and analyze information from terrorist generated Web sites. Then today as I'm driving, I heard Dr. Chen on...
- Tags: Web, Terrorism, Web Page, Analysis, Computer, Dark Web, Brooks, Phil Windley
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Secret court considers ACLU request for orders
- The ACLU has asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to release the secret orders the court issued regarding the National Security Agency's wiretapping program. Now the court has asked the Bush administration for its views about such a release, The Washington Post reports. The move is highly unusual, because the...
- Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- Concerns about TIDE anti-terror database
- The Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment TIDE is a storehouse for data about people the US intelligence community thinks bear watching. It exists to address the problem of federal agencies being unable to share data amongst themselves. But, The Washington Post reports, TIDE has spawned many more problems. Ballooning...
- Tags: Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, database
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- Treasury needs more time for financial data tracking project
- The Treasury Departments Cross-Border Electronic Funds Transfer Program - a data-collection program that is supposed to give analysts access to 500 million cross-border financial transactions - will not be ready until 2010, officials told Congress yesterday. The Washington Post reports: In a report to Congress to be...
- Tags: Government technology, Homeland security, FINCEN
- Blog posts 2007-01-17
- Time to update Privacy Act to keep up with technology, group says
- According to a privacy advocacy group, the U.S. governments ability to keep citizens personal information protected from data mining from corporations has not kept pace with advances in technology, reports the Associated Press. A number of think-tank scholars and privacy advocates testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee to advocate...
- Tags: Data mining, Vertical industries, Databases, Leslie Harris, Privacy Act, government
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- Number 4 Most-Read Post in 2006: These photos illustrate AT&T's phone, Internet tracking activities for NSA
- What diligent counterterrorism efforts are to some, serious civil liberties violations are to others.Entitled "These photos illustrate AT&Ts phone, Internet tracking activities for NSA," this post encompassed controversies surrounding the unmasking of several facilities that have been said to be of several rooms in protected AT&T facilities where phone...
- Tags: Regulatory, Security, General, telephone, NSA
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- Government datamining exploding at high rate
- The federal government is hiring private firms to do datamining at a ferocious pace, the Washington Post reports on a Government Accountability Office report. The Pentagon pays a private company to compile data on teenagers it can recruit to the military. The Homeland Security Department buys consumer information to...
- Tags: data mining
- Blog posts 2006-06-15
- Automatic Extraction of Concealed Relations From Email Logs
- People interact with each other for various reasons. Based on the purpose of the relationship, these interactions exhibit certain characteristics. One such important characteristic is that of concealment. Concealed relations can often be a source of interest especially in the domain of counterterrorism where relations fostering malicious activities tend to...
- Tags: Technique, Relation, University Of Minnesota, Social Networking, Productivity, E-mail, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- White papers 2006-05-25
- Blink - Malcolm Gladwell on our mysterious decisions
- Why does "open source intelligence" work? Isn't it counterintuitive that lower-grade information, as publicly available information should be, would lead to as good as or better analysis as that based on high-quality intel? Malcolm Gladwell, author of "Blink," addressed this issue briefly in a speech to Hamline University Law...
- Tags: Malcolm Gladwell
- Blog posts 2006-04-25
- Civil Liberties Protection Officer? Don't make me laugh.
- Why am I not comforted by the recent spate of “privacy” and “civil rights” appointments within the US Federal Government? I guess it is because the principal of Checks and Balances usually invokes independence and empowerment. Maybe it is my early career...
- Tags: agency, privacy
- Blog posts 2006-04-25
- Straight talk on terrorism
- Straight talk on terrorismCybersecurityIMHO1. Virus protection is not enough on its own.That's like giving s flu jab to a guy that's got the flu.2. So we need at least software firewalling as well.3. This should be a minimum requirement of netiquette. If this were so, 99% of infected machines would...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Vertical industries, virus protection, terrorism, CLaRK, George W, Clarke, government, Richard Clarke, security, cyberterrorism
- Discussion threads 2004-11-18
- Homeland security: The price of safety
- The U.S. government's multibillion-dollar drive for homeland security has produced a boom in antiterror technologies. At the same time, it has created problems ranging from industry confusion to lack of basic accountability, and privacy concerns are higher than ever. In the first part of a three-part series, CNET News.com looks...
- Tags: homeland security
- Blog posts 2004-10-18
- Security and Networking Boot Camps Bolster Defense for Exclusive Military Team
- The Exclusive Military Team was activated in 1989. Responsibilities include defense, unconventional warfare, reconnaissance, direct action, and counterterrorism. While technology represents a critical component to the Exclusive Military Team's operations, efficiently instructing its forces on its deployment without weakening its military training regimens was a challenge. Early in 2000, the...
- Tags: Security, Team, Global Knowledge Network Inc., Network, Training, Workforce Management, Human Resources
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