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- 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
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- CNET's Clientside developer blog serving Adobe Flash exploits
- Yesterday, Websense Labs issued an alert regarding a compromised CNET blog, namely the Clientside developer blog which has been embedded with a malicious javascript code attempting to exploit the visitors through a well known vulnerability in Adobe Flash's player. Websense's alert : "Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has discovered...
- Tags: adobe systems inc., cnet networks inc., javascript, blog, websense inc., malware, scripting languages, security, viruses and worms, software/web development, web development, dancho danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- MS Patch Tuesday: Critical IE, Office, Excel patches coming
- Next Tuesday (August 12th), Microsoft will ship 12 security bulletins with fixes for serious vulnerabilities in a wide range of of widely deployed products. Seven of the 12 bulletins will be rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating. The critical bulletins will cover remotely exploitable...
- Tags: microsoft access, vulnerability, patch management, activex control, microsoft internet explorer, microsoft corp., microsoft excel, microsoft windows, activex/com/com+/dcom, microsoft office, security, operating systems, software, software development, software/web development, office suites, ryan naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- ThinkPad X200 reviews: Great ultraportable . . . but it's no X300
- The X200 is one of eight new ThinkPads--including the SL series for small business--that Lenovo announced as part of Intel's Centrino 2 launch. The 12.1-inch wide-screen ultraportable, which replaces the popular ThinkPad X61, is designed to bring some of the features of the pricey 13.3-inch X300 to a broader audience....
- Tags: intel centrino 2, intel centrino, ibm thinkpad, lenovo group ltd., thinkpad x200, x300, reviews, notebooks, hardware, notebooks & tablets, john morris
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- TSA 'checkpoint-friendly' bags fly on 16 August
- After the news earlier this week the the Department of Homeland Security DHS is authorized to perform notebook computer searches at U.S. borders and the subsequent suits announced by the EFF and ALC comes a softer, friendlier federal government. The Transportation Security Administration TSA – who the...
- Tags: transportation security administration, notebooks, hardware, notebooks & tablets, jason d. o\'grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- A look at risk-reward: Apple may nuke apps on your iPhone remotely
- Apple apparently can disable App Store software remotely on your iPhone 3G. The iPhone calls home and poof the application is nuked. Needless to say that this has caused a bit of a blog ruckus Techmeme. MacRumors notes that Apple has come under fire for removing App...
- Tags: apple iphone, apple inc., 3g, tools & techniques, cellular phones, consumer electronics, personal technology, management, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- News to know: Mozilla; Windows Server; LinuxWorld; Apple
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Talking Firefox security with Mozilla's Window Snyder Mary Jo Foley: What's next for Windows Server Microsoft finalizes SQL Server 2008 TechRepublic: 10 questions and answers about Microsoft Live Mesh Dancho Danchev: Today's...
- Tags: google inc., larry dignan, microsoft windows server, server, apple inc., mozilla corp., linux, phishing, smart phones, service-oriented architecture (soa), cyberthreats, microsoft windows, operating systems, unix, open source, software, security, spam and phishing, consumer electronics, personal technology, web services, enterprise software
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Talking Firefox security with Mozilla's Window Snyder
- Talking Firefox security with Mozilla's Window SnyderProtected Mode is the only thing FireFox is missingWhat I can't figure out is why it should be hard to add. FireFox already works with AppArmor so we know it can run with very few rights.FireFox is still my favorite browser by far and...
- Tags: web browsers, security, mozilla firefox, mozilla window, firefox security, protected mode, mozilla corp., window
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Talking Firefox security with Mozilla's Window Snyder
- LAS VEGAS -- Mozilla security chief Window Snyder wants to open-source much more than the Firefox browser. During a sit-down chat at the Black Hat security conference here, Snyder announced plans to launch three new initiatives around threat modeling, training and vulnerability metrics that push the envelope...
- Tags: mozilla firefox, window, training, web browser, mozilla corp., window snyder, web browsers, security, internet, ryan naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- TSA vendor finds lost laptop, remains suspended
- Travelers who use the Transportation Security Administration's Registered Traveler program might be verified as good security risks but the same can't be said about Steven Brill's Verified Identity Pass, one of the TSA vendors that operates the program. VIP, under the brand name Clear, lost a laptop containing...
- Tags: transportation security administration, laptop computer, vip, notebooks, hardware, notebooks & tablets, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
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