Tag Archives: government

Obama administration supports cyber security month

President Obama recorded the following video (also available here) promoting National Cyber Security Awareness Month and reminding all Americans of our shared responsibility to keep the ‘net safe. In addition, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security, will be delivering a … Continue reading

Tagged , , , | Comments Off

President Obama address nation on cyber security

Within the past hour, President Obama addressed the nation from the White House to emphasize the importance of cyber security, to announce the release of the administration’s report of its 60-day cyberspace policy review, and to announce the creation of … Continue reading

Tagged , , | Comments Off

Bad Guys Get Caught

Allysa Myers at McAfee “blogged about”:http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2008/05/21/more-crimeware-arrests/ this “FBI press release”:http://newhaven.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2008/nh051908.htm announcing criminal charges against 38 alleged baddies from the U.S. and overseas. bq. According to the indictment, the Romania-based members of the enterprise obtained thousands of credit and debit card … Continue reading

Tagged , , , | Comments Off

FTC educates, entertains

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has a quite good educational site, “OnGuard Online”:http://www.onguardonline.gov, with online and print materials for educating consumers about malware, phishing, identity theft, and other online hazards. They also just released a “few”:http://onguardonline.gov/promos/phishing/home/index.html “entertaining”:http://onguardonline.gov/promos/phishing/office/index.html “videos”:http://onguardonline.gov/promos/phishing/store/index.html that … Continue reading

Tagged , , | Comments Off

Transparency and responsiveness

Wired has an article about the U.S. government’s lack of a transparent, responsive process for individuals who are on the terrorist watch list to request removal if they are innocent. According to the article, even the process they do have, … Continue reading

Tagged , , | Comments Off