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- GAO: Data breaches rarely lead to identity theft
- A study by the Government Accountability Office found that despite the massive number of data breaches, few of them turn into identity theft, reports CNET News.Of 24 major incidents that the GAO studied, only three resulted in identity theft. That includes break-ins at third-party credit card payment processor CardSystems, shoe...
- Tags: Security, GAO
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
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- News to know: iPhone 3G launch; Vista; Botnets; Dial-up diaries
- Notable headlines: The iPhone 3G rollout: Assessing the wild cards Steve O'Hear: Gallery: 25+ social networking apps for iPhone and iPod touch. Gallery right. Analyst: Most iPhone 3G buyers will pay more than $199 GigaOm: I Can't...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows Vista, 3G, Podcasts, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Email preservation standards extremely lax, GAO finds
- Email preservation standards extremely lax, GAO finds.....Can we say DUH! It has been pointed out time and time again that the Bush administration has absolutely no respect for the Constitution nor do they care to adhere to the laws they create. The "we are above the law" mentality and the...
- Tags: preservation standard, Email preservation standard, e-mail, General Accounting Office, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Email preservation standards extremely lax, GAO finds
- It just keeps looking like the Bush Administration is intentionally keeping shoddy records to avoid public accountability. After all of the missing White House and RNC emails, including a dearth of messages sent by and to Karl Rove, the Government Accountability Office reports that federal agencies and officials consistently fail...
- Tags: Agency, General Accounting Office, Standards, House, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Call for new privacy law
- The Government Accountability Office and privacy experts are calling for a major revamp of the U.S. Privacy Act, which dates from 1974. The GAO released two reports on the situation today, ComputerWorld reports, one calling for new privacy rules and one calling for the Office of Management and Budget to...
- Tags: Information Management, General Accounting Office, Strategy, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- China says it's incapable of hacking Reps' computers
- China says it's incapable of hacking Reps' computersYeah, right..."We're incapable of it." And I'm Mae West. Why don't you come up and see me sometime. It'd be one thing to deny the action. But to go so far as to deny they even have the capability...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, ONE-Way, Reps, computer, hacking
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- Cancer--censored, delayed, none of your business
- Of course our government cannot really tell us the truth about things like "weapons of mass destruction," or the true costs of various wars and occupations, or the size of the CIA's budget, because we're so silly and can't be trusted to understand. Turns out, we can't be told...
- Tags: Chemicals, Health Care, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, European Union, Government Accounting Office, Naphthalene, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- 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
- For sale on eBay: Nuclear biological protection gear and other cool stuff
- eBay auction. Item: F-14 Antenna. Winning bidder: Mahoud A. For sale: Nuclear biological chemical gear. Contact anon1234@craigslist.org eBay auction. Item: Small arms protective inserts. Winning bidder: Hu J. These are just a few of the items the Government Accountability Office discovered for sale on eBay...
- Tags: General Accounting Office, eBay Inc., Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- 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
- Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau
- The US Census Bureau faces cost overruns up to $2 billion on an IT initiative replacing paper-based data collection methods with specialized handheld devices for the upcoming 2010 census. The Bureau has not implemented longstanding Government Accountability Office GAO recommendations and may therefore be forced to...
- Tags: Harris Corp., Government Accountability Office, Census Bureau, Bureau, Handhelds, Hardware, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ring
- Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's prostitute scandal is all the big news here in New York, but the lesser known tale is how an information system--the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network--played a role in his downfall. On the surface, Spitzer's downfall is a New York...
- Tags: Bank, Information System, Transaction, Financial, FBI, Data, Institution, Internal Revenue Service, Technology, Eliot Spitzer, Wall Street, FinCEN, CTR, Federal Government, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Government, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- You can keep on asking...
- But you have to ask the right questions. Two senators have sent a letter to 24 US agencies asking them to report on their progress in data protection. This article at Federal Computer Week highlights the woeful state of security compliance at most US agencies. This...
- Tags: Agency, General Accounting Office, Authentication, Advertising & Promotion, Firewalls, Telnet, Security, Marketing, Networking, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Yahoo! heroes instead of zeroes in stand against MSFT but not against Chinese repression
- Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft's offer smacks of a face saving attempt by its management and board to look heroic following its despicable behaviour in China. MSFT is very likely going to prevail with its acquisition since it seems to have the support of Yahoo's largest shareholders. Yahoo's...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MSFT, Shi, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-02-17
- The federal budget is finally digital
- At 2,200 pages, how many people actually read the whole federal budget the president sends to Congress each year? Definitely not enough to pay for the cost of printing. And more importantly, how can citizens search through it for programs on interest when it's only in print? OK, enough is...
- Tags: Budget, U.S. Congress, General Accounting Office, Printing, OMB, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Bush deleted email archive system, recycled backup tapes
- If I may give some props to the Times of London's Bugle podcast, the White House has finally embraced an environmental agenda by recycling data backup tapes. No need to clog up the works with dusty old emails about leaking Valerie Plame's name to reporters or planning for the Iraq...
- Tags: Backup, Backup Tape, Upshot, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- The Internet must not be proprietary
- The Internet must not be proprietaryMonopolies are bad.I agree. Unfortunately the trend in North America is that choices are decreasing. This need not be a bad thing as long as the 'remaining' market players do a good job. But history has shown that once competition decreases, quality of service goes...
- Tags: Government, Govt, Internet
- Discussion threads 2007-11-24
- Yahoo! and its looming hiring crisis following despicable acts in China
- Can moral "pigmies" and "police informants" attract the best and brightest talent? Just in case you missed it, last week Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang and its chief lawyer Michael Callahan were called to Washington DC to explain to lawmakers why Yahoo! helped the Chinese government arrest...
- Tags: Hiring, Yahoo! Inc., Shi, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2007-11-10
- DHS security flap swirls around Unisys
- Unisys is under fire over data breaches at the Department of Homeland Security. Unisys maintains that it did nothing wrong. On Monday, the Washington Post reported that the FBI is investigating Unisys after it allegedly failed to detect data breaches linked to a Chinese-language Web site. To make...
- Tags: Unisys Corp., U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- GAO: Dry runs make radiation-detection tests unreliable
- The Government Accountability Office says that the Department of Homeland Security has been encouraging vendors of new radiation detection equipment to cheat on upcoming tests, The Washington Post reports. Those tests are supposed to determine whether Congress moves forward with $1.2 billion in funding for the machines....
- Tags: Microsoft ASP, Government Accountability Office, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, General Accounting Office, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
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