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- MI5 searches for emerging tech scientists
- The domestic intelligence service for the United Kingdom, MI5, have recently advertised for a chief scientific adviser, which would take on the role similar to that of 'Q' in the James Bond films. Whilst science fiction and well-written novels can take advantage of such a serious role, the Security Service...
- Tags: Job, Advisor, National Security, Investment, Recruitment & Selection, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-04-26
- 3Com-Huawei deal 'in trouble' over China connection
- 3Com-Huawei deal 'in trouble' over China connectionAnother test to show US's resistence to monkeyThe question is which matters, the greed of shareholders or the national security?Why can't this be a threat to China's security?Any time there's a deal between a US company and a China company, we always hear loud...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Cyberthreats, PRODUCTIVITY, national security, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., 3Com Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- 3Com-Huawei deal 'in trouble' over China connection
- A proposed $3 billion cash deal between 3Com, Bain Capital and China's Huawei has been deemed a legitimate threat to U.S. national security, according to a report by Bill Gertz in the Washington Times. "The deal is in trouble," the paper an unnamed official as...
- Tags: U.S., China, Huawei Technologies, 3Com Corp., National Security, Gertz, Mergers & Acquisitions, Intrusion Prevention, Telephony, Investment, Finance, Security, Networking, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- 3Com: China connection no risk to national security
- As I predicted two weeks ago, the 3Com/Bain Capital/Huawei transation has raised eyebrows in national security quarters. 3Com, which sells networking hardware and software and runs a side business that buys advance access to zero-day vulnerabilities, has voluntarily agreed to subject the $2 billion cash deal to...
- Tags: BainCapital LLC, 3Com Corp., National Security, Sales Strategy, Security, Investment, Sales, Finance, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-10-12
- 9th Circuit to decide whether to dismiss NSA spying case against AT&T
- In 2003, Room 641A of a large telecommunications building in downtown San Francisco was filled with powerful data-mining equipment for a "special job" by the National Security Agency, according to a former AT& T technician. It was fed by fiber-optic cables that siphoned copies of e-mails and other online traffic...
- Tags: Internet, San Francisco, AT&T Corp., National Security, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Congress: P2P networks harm national security
- Congress: P2P networks harm national securityOK...I'll ask the question......Why are government employees within secure facilities or any workplace running Limewire clients? I must have missed something there.And wow....Congress is a fearful place these days. Evildoers?H-1B quota and War on TerrorismLets get real. The greater threat is H-1B contractors...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Pentagon, network, P2P, Henry Waxman, U.S. Congress, national security
- Discussion threads 2007-07-24
- FBI's data management headaches escalate with Patriot Act
- A Justice Department audit found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation misused the USA Patriot Act to obtain personal information about people. Within that 126 page audit is evidence of the FBIs still is struggling to manage its data. ...
- Tags: General, Government, IT Management, Legal, Software Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Judge: Verizon won't appear before state PUC
- The Maine Public Utilities Commission intended to have Verizon appear before it and explain whether it was cooperating with the National Security Administration, but a federal judge Thursday blocked the hearing based on "potential risk" to national security, The Bangor Daily News reports. U.S. District Judge John...
- Tags: Government technology, national security, PUC
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- Homeland security group to meet away from public eye
- Homeland security group to meet away from public eyeSecurity reasons eh?Well, not really news worthy. Dick Cheney felt that all meetings he has with oil execs and other corporate types are covered under national security "911" special laws. Bush cites security reasons for banning protestors and regulating them...
- Tags: Vertical industries, national security, government, homeland security
- Discussion threads 2006-03-24
- Fuzzy logic behind Bush's cybercrime treaty
- Fuzzy logic behind Bush's cybercrime treatyCriminal DualityGood point. I would have to agree that the FBI should be limited to only help in those instances where the "offense" would also be considered criminal in the FBI's jurisdiction."Intellectual Property"It sounds like this is all for the "Intellectual Property" Industry/Lobby. They...
- Tags: national security, First Amendment
- Discussion threads 2005-11-28
- Google vs national security
- Google vs national securityGoogle v national securityIt would appear that the DHS could benefit from Google's popularity, if all this concern were true.
- Tags: Benefits, national security, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-10-19
- Didn't they teach the feds how not to have a $170M IT failure?
- Here's a story that slipped past my radar that's enough to make anyone sick, not just IT professionals. The New York Times has a piece regarding the latest report to detail the FBI failures that allowed two of the Sept 11 hijackers to slip through its dragnet. This...
- Tags: national security, information technology
- Blog posts 2005-06-09
- Study: Open source poses security risks
- A conservative U.S. think tank suggests in an upcoming report that open-source software is inherently less secure than proprietary software, and warns governments against relying on it for national security. A conservative U.S. think tank suggests in an upcoming report that open-source software is inherently less secure than proprietary...
- Tags: U.S., Security, Proprietary Software, Open Source, National Security, Matthew Broersma
- News items 2002-06-03
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- Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?
- The Kleptocrats that feel entitled to your money...worry that us mushrooms now have other uncontrollable sources for the "truth" and won't eat the horse compost fed to them by the monopolistic crony Main-stream Media.RE: Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?There are two things tyrants and bureaucrats...
- Tags: Vertical industries, government, retraction, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Research paints ugly IT employment picture: Almost 2 million jobs gone in 14 years
- Depressing...So much innovation happened in America in the 90's. Alot of what we have now was accomplished by American engineers, and now we are not being included anymore because of what? Arbitrage. Sad, Sad, Sad....Of courseBecause all these CEOs and wannabe businesspeople think quality doesn't matter so...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, information technology, comeback, profit margin, job, worker
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- SOA promotes a sea change for the US Coast Guard
- So what are they?I mean the 25 Service Oriented Initiatives. So far I count two in your first two installments. So why should I care? Well, I suspect anything that has to do with the Homeland Security bureaucracy, an agency that really is surplus to others already...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Homeland security, Middleware, Additional service, United States Coast Guard, Watchkeeper, USCG, SAR, SOA
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Countries engaging in Cyber Cold War
- Major countries and nation-states are engaged in a "Cyber Cold War", amassing "cyber weapons", conducting espionage and testing networks in preparation for using the internet to conduct war, reports McAfee. Major countries and nation-states are engaged in a "Cyber Cold War", amassing "cyber weapons", conducting espionage and testing networks...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., Espionage, Internet, war, McAfee, Elinor Mills CNET News
- News items 2009-11-17
- 'Tis the season for ID fraud: Retailers face $100 billion in losses
- No problemThey just need to apply for a bailout. no surprise hereif nobody is going to investigate and chase the crooks they feel embolden to try again.This will become a cost of 'doing business', pretty much like the immigration law being broken without consequences.I hope that was meant to be...
- Tags: Social Security, Operational accounting, Personal finance, identity fraud
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- U.S. unemployment rate highest in 26 years, at 10.2%
- Misinterpreted numbers..."In October, the number of unemployed persons increased by 558,000 to 15.7 million."That's not 190,000. The 190,000 is non-farm payroll decrease, which doesn't include farm workers or self-employed persons who have hung it up.Maybe we need a NEW "New Deal?"Remember the 3 R's of Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal?"...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Personal finance, FDR, Common-sense, unemployment rate, New Deal, Obama, Reagan
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- Survey: IT workers eyeing security certifications
- No government healthcareIf the Gov goes with this socialist health_care scheme it will be the end of the free market.With Billions in waste from fraud in medicare/medicade and welfare running rampant with no checks in place.All we need is this community leader telling people we need to go TRILLIONS more...
- Tags: security, security certification, survey
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
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