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Government use of IT

Article | 3/12/2010 Hackers issue bogus Amber Alert
Hackers broke into the state of Iowa's Amber Alert website and issued a bogus alert over the weekend.
Article | 2/12/2010 US agency chooses Google for hosted e-mail
The U.S. General Services Administration will become the first federal agency to use a hosted e-mail service, choosing Google, Unisys and others to of...
Article | 30/11/2010 China breaks ground on futuristic supercomputer complex
China has unveiled a sleek, ultra modern-appearing design for its new supercomputing center, apparently rejecting the windowless, boxy design of typic...
Article | 30/11/2010 China blocks access to WikiLeaks
China has blocked Internet access to WikiLeaks' release of more than 250,000 U.S. Department of State cables, with its Foreign Ministry saying that it...
Article | 30/11/2010 WikiLeaks moves to Amazon servers after DOS attacks
After several denial of service (DOS) attacks hit it over the weekend, WikiLeaks is now being hosted by Amazon servers in the U.S. and Ireland, IP tra...
Article | 13/11/2010 U.S. building next wave of supercomputers
The U.S. is building two 20-petaflop supercomputers, many times more powerful than anything operating today, including China's new supercomputer, the ...
Article | 8/11/2010 NASA wants its data up in the clouds
NASA is backing open source cloud computing with a single goal in mind: to stick to space exploration and stop running data centers.
Article | 2/11/2010 Google sues agency over Microsoft-only cloud deal
Google and a reseller of its products have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior after the agency solicited bids for cloud-based...
Article | 19/10/2010 New online database to help companies secure government work
Companies bidding for government business in the E.U. will soon be able to use a new Web-based tool to simplify the paperwork associated with their pr...
Article | 19/10/2010 UK lists cybersecurity as top national security concern
The U.K. government has listed cybersecurity as one of its top concerns for the next five years in a strategy paper released on Monday.
Article | 13/10/2010 Minnesota to move e-mail to Microsoft's cloud
The Minnesota state government said last month that it's moving its messaging and collaboration systems to Microsoft Corp.'s hosted Business Productiv...
Article | 13/10/2010 Europe to hold cybersecurity exercise next month
The European Union is planning to hold a cybersecurity exercise across its 27 member states next month, the start of what officials hope will be great...
Article | 7/10/2010 Tech CEOs tell US gov't how to cut $1 trillion from deficit
The U.S. government can save more than $US1 trillion over the next 10 years by consolidating its IT infrastructure, reducing its energy use and moving...
Article | 30/09/2010 Cyber Storm III simulates large-scale attack
A new cyberattack exercise hosted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security this week reflects the increasingly sophisticated attacks U.S. agencies ...
Article | 3/09/2010 Northrop Grumman takes blame for Va. IT services outage
Northrop Grumman today apologized for an outage that began last Wednesday and caused 26 Virginia state agencies to lose their Web services, some for m...