The US Commerce Department?s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently reported a breach of its computer network. According to Commerce Department spokesman Richard Mills, ?[BIS] discovered a …
**** or Get off the Pot (Updates)
Last February, top F.B.I. officers from across the nation gathered in a high-security auditorium for the latest plan to reinvent the crime-fighting agency to take on terrorism. Philip Mudd, who had …
A Rare Feel-Good
Randi Greenberg, information systems security manager for the Homeland Security Department’s U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program, has the task of securing information …
CIA CIO Gets Bump Up
CIA director Michael Hayden has upgraded the profile of his organization’s CIO to provide a direct-reporting relationship between the top technology official and his own office. Smart, and recognition …
Trying to Get Cu-ber Right
Ever since President Fidel Castro was sidelined for what was said to be abdominal surgery last July, Cuban officials have maintained that the country's leader will return to his post. ... But U.S. …
As Well They Should
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Peter Hoekstra is still pressing U.S. intelligence agencies to look for possible weapons of mass destruction in Iraq—even though intelligence officials say …
Defeating Internet Terrorists
The Internet has become the "seductive hypermedia" for radical Islamic terrorists, with official and unofficial Web sites, forums and chatrooms that appeal to supporters worldwide. Most Web sites are …
Hope for (Better) Oversight
This gem from Secrecy News is encouraging: A bill introduced by Congressional Democrats would empower the Government Accountability Office GAO) to perform financial audits and other oversight of U.S. …
The Balance Sheet
An international audience looking to point to a decisive winner in the Hizballah -Israeli conflict will be disappointed. Not even the combatants themselves can decide who was victorious. At the …
The Dynamics in Reestablishing Egypt?s Nuclear Program
After 20 years of dormancy, Egypt has revived its civil nuclear program with plans for a nuclear power station on the Mediterranean coast. On September 19, 2006, the President?s son and ruling …
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