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Flu-Related Telecommuting Could Clog Web Traffic, Feds Warn

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Talk of a flu pandemic has evolved into a bit of flu panic. Rumors fly as some people die and others deny. Much of this fevered buzz is on and around the Internet. The fear that the Internet itself will crash is growing. The alarm is based on the presumption that as the flu spreads,…

The PC Privacy Battle at the Border

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Civil liberties groups continue to lock horns with the Department of Homeland Security over border searches of electronic equipment, although relatively few people have been affected. The Department’s statistics show that only 1,000 laptops were searched between October 2008 and August 2009, a time period in which more than 221 million travelers came through U.S.…

TSA Isn’t Telling the Whole Truth About Scanners, Charges Privacy Group

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Pushback against the deployment at airports of digital image scanners that show people’s naked images through their clothes is gaining steam, bolstered by the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s publication of government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security papers suggest the Transportation Security Administration overstated the privacy protections…

Rethinking the Fortifications: Q&A With Heartland CIO Steven Elefant

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Following a breach of its computer systems a year ago, Heartland Payment Systems, one of the five largest payment card processors in the United States, came under considerable pressure to strengthen its IT security, and it’s been embroiled in several lawsuits because of the breach. In January 2009, hundreds of thousands of business owners were…

A New Age for US Cybersecurity

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

In the wake of repeated warnings by former top-level government cybersecurity experts that the United States is ill-prepared for a cyberwar, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt disclosed Tuesday the Obama administration’s plans to prepare for the cybersecurity needs of the future. The administration is taking a multifaceted approach to cybersecurity, Schmidt said at the…

Napolitano Kicks Off Race to Secure Cyberspace

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The United States needs the help of both the private sector and individual Americans to tackle cybersecurity, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said at the RSA Conference 2010 in San Francisco on Wednesday. “We need to have an ongoing two-way conversation and effort between the private and public sectors, and…

Mueller to Cybersecurity Experts: The FBI Wants You

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday joined the Department of Homeland Security in seeking to hire cybersecurity experts from the private sector. “I want to send out an invitation to those of you in the audience who want to serve the country to join the FBI,” FBI Director Robert Mueller said at the RSA…

Cities of the Future, Part 3: Cloud Quandaries

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Part 1 of this series discusses the different approaches being taken to design more efficient urban landscapes.Part 2 addresses the need for designers to take moral and ethical issues into account. Cities, like other large organizations, will move increasingly toward virtualization and the cloud in order to save money on infrastructure. In fact, many city…

Air-Sniffing Cellphones Could Aid Chemical-Warfare Defense

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

If the Department of Homeland Security has its way, cellphones will soon do more than transmit calls, GPS information and a host of data from the Web. They’ll also monitor the air for toxic substances that could be part of a chemical warfare attack. Anywhere a chemical threat breaks out — a mall, a bus,…

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