Robert Lemos

In a letter to Congress, nearly three dozen organizations protest the seizures of electronic devices by U.S. customs officials, an act upheld by a federal appeals court in a recent ruling.
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A Congressional committee claims that Unisys allowed malicious code to infect federal systems.
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Twice in two weeks, the nation has been taken to task for breaching other nations’ systems, but officials continue to deny the accusations.
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Hearings on the Hill reveal a significant number of security breaches at the Departments of Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security, State and Energy.
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A Congressional committee calls for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to further investigate the cause of excessive network traffic that shut down an Alabama nuclear plant.
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In an annual report card mandated by federal law, two dozen federal agencies improve their average grade slightly from last year’s ‘D+’.
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If you read one thing today, make it this anonymous submission to the Washington Post from the president of a small Internet access company. The person, whose identity and claims the Washington Post confirmed, has taken the FBI to court for issuing a National Security Letter to him requesting information on a client.

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Security technology giant HID uses patent claims to silence a security researcher scheduled to detail issues in radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology at a conference this week.
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Federal officials renew calls for the private sector to help manage threats to critical infrastructure and the Internet.
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Anyone with kids knows that if you repeat something enough times, it sticks (or drives the parent to distraction, but that’s another post). So the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and their British equivalent should not be surprised at the latest list of stories now appearing describing a mixed bag of perceived threats. But this [...]

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