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Government use of IT

Article | 26/07/2011 Director of US-CERT quits abruptly
Randy Vickers, the director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT), has resigned from his position without any official explanation fo...
Article | 15/07/2011 US hails progress with Russia on cybersecurity cooperation
Russia and the U.S. are working to reduce chances for a cybersecurity incident that could damage the countries' relationship, according to the top cyb...
Article | 2/07/2011 Survey: US agencies aren't tracking data center use
Even though the U.S. White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has pushed government agencies to reduce the number of data centers they operat...
Article | 30/06/2011 Chinese city draws ire with controversial cloud zone
A cloud development zone being constructed in the Chinese city of Chongqing has drawn scrutiny for an alleged plan to offer uncensored Internet access...
Article | 29/06/2011 Office 365 arrives to flat IT spending
Microsoft is pitching its cloud-based Office 365 as a less costly alternative for IT budgets, assuming IT managers can find money in their budgets for...
Article | 25/06/2011 Microsoft launches public sector magazine
Microsoft has quietly created a new group, the office of civic innovation, as well as a new online magazine designed to promote its public sector init...
Article | 23/06/2011 India has issued 9.5 million digital identity numbers
India has issued digital identities to about 9.5 million people so far, and plans to step up enrollment to 1 million a day from October, the head of t...
Article | 17/06/2011 Obama's CIO quits
The first person ever appointed as the CIO of the US government, Vivek Kundra, is resigning after two and a half years on the job, the White House sai...
Article | 11/06/2011 Anonymous withdraws Indian hack under pressure
The fledgling Indian operation of hacker group Anonymous attacked the <a href="http://indianarmy.nic.in/Index.aspx?flag=LfcULYFlbeQ=">website of the I...
Article | 11/06/2011 EU will take a year to set up full cybersecurity agency
Security experts have criticized the European Commission's plans to set up a team to look at how to combat cyberattacks as too little, too late, sayin...
Article | 7/06/2011 Anonymous hacks Indian site in fight against corruption
Hacker group Anonymous has come out in support of a civil movement against corruption in India by hacking one of the websites of a government IT organ...
Article | 2/06/2011 NASA bids farewell to Endeavour, tees up Atlantis
After 19 years and 25 space flights, NASA's space shuttle Endeavour returned to Earth from a 16-day mission early this morning, ending its storied car...
Article | 2/06/2011 Cyberattacks fuel concerns about RSA SecurID breach
Recent attacks against two major defense contractors are fueling concerns about the extent to which RSA's SecurID two-factor authentication technology...
Article | 2/06/2011 Cybersecurity research consortium: New tech on the way
An 18-month-old cybersecurity research consortium organized by Northrop Grumman is making progress and should have technologies ready to deploy in abo...
Article | 1/06/2011 UK developing cyber-weapons, Armed Forces minister admits
The U.K. Government is developing a "toolbox" of Internet cyber-weapons that could be used to attack other countries, Armed Forces Minister Nick Harve...