In its second annual Cyber Monday bust-fest, US law enforcement today said it seized 150 domain names from commercial websites it said engaged in the sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and copyrighted works.The 150 seized domains are now custody of the federal government and site visitors will...
For every 1,000 lines of code, one to five bugs are introduced. And getting those bugs out of the millions of lines of software code that run today's complex systems is costly and only performed by highly specialized researchers with deep knowledge of software and mathematical theorem-proving techniques.
Most often when the watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office are called into to check out an agency, process or project they are looking for something that has gone wrong. This week, however the group took a look at some government IT projects that have gone right and came up with some...
The Federal Trade Commission has set the lineup for its workshop next month that will examine the privacy and security impact of facial recognition technology.
These aren't your basic video gaming systems here. The US government gave Raytheon BBN Technologies a $10.5 million today to develop what it called "serious games" that result in better decision-making by teaching players to recognize and diminish the effects of their own biases when analyzing...
It's clear by the increasing use of analytics software that companies are struggling to get their hands around the huge amounts of data it takes to run a successful business. But developing social, mobile, cloud computing and other applications are also driving the need for new technical...
Researchers from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will next week detail a new program it hopes will develop technology to dramatically change computer system security authorization.
Almost seven of 10 households in the United States subscribe to broadband service while 68% of American households used broadband Internet in 2010, up from 64% in 2009 and only 3% of households still rely on dial-up access to the Internet in 2010, down from 5 percent in 2009.Those were but a few of the...
US law enforcement today said it had smashed what it called a massive, sophisticated Internet fraud scheme that injected malware in more than four million computers in over 100 countries while generating $14 million in illegitimate income. Of the computers infected with malware, at least 500,000...
WASHGINTON, DC -- Getting non-traditional security technology quickly into military networks was at best a trying experience. Not only that, if you or your company had a novel security tools the last place you may have wanted to show it off would have been to the government.
The cutting-edge intelligence research development arm of the government wants to take advantage of the world's semiconductor manufacturing capacity but make sure that US security and intellectual property protection is baked in.
If you like puzzles and think you could make shredded or severely damaged documents whole again in a particularly cool way, then the scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have a challenge for you.
NASA, which had gone out of its way to diminish wild doomsday reports about the impact of comet Elanin on Earth over the summer, reiterated its scorn for the hoopla by today issuing a statement detailing the comet's death."Comet Elenin is no more," NASA said.
The US Department of Energy wants researchers and scientists to "think outside the box" and come up "highly disruptive Concentrating Solar Power technologies that will meet 6¢/kWh cost targets by the end of the decade."
When I think if the United States Air Force I don't typically think of it worrying too much about the human psyche. But in this case, the Air Force says it wants to begin studies that look at the psychological, neurological, or contextual elements of human reliance on autonomous systems....
With news today that copper prices are on the rise again - up 7% to $3.45 a pound, in over a month - law enforcement officials are looking for new ways to put a crimp in copper and metal thefts that continue to plague almost every community in the US.
ORLANDO - When you start off with this bit of information from Gartner: By 2015, 80% of newly installed wireless networks will be obsolete because of a lack of proper planning - you understand the challenges enterprises face in ramping up mobile environments.
A new laboratory has opened that will study the impact of lightning strikes on airplanes, particularly new aircraft that are made up of carbon composite materials.
The Air Force today tried to quash the firestorm of criticism around its handling of the computer virus that hit its unmanned drone program last month.
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