WASHINGTON - The government has proposed changing its ban on tracking how consumers use government web sites by using cookies, the Washington Post has reported. A two-week public comment period ended Monday on a proposal by the White House Office of Management and Budget to end a ban on federal Internet sites using such technologies
WASHINGTON - The Internet is arguably the most significant technological development of our time. It has changed the way we communicate, the way we learn, and the way we see things. It brings previously isolated and disparate information to our fingertips, almost instantaneously, and has become the primary means by which we conduct business and
WASHINGTON DC - The 2009 Annual National InfraGard Congress will be held October 14 by Secure Video Teleconference with FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III has been invited to provide opening remarks. The video teleconference starts at 11 am EDT and closes by 5 pm. The InfraGard National Members Alliance will broadcast from the SVTC
WASHINGTON DC - The month of August has seen Melissa Hathaway resign the Acting Cyber-security Coordination Post and it has not been permanently filled since President Obama announced that he would make Cyber a top priority back in June. Also noteworthy, the State of Missouri's Governor Nixon announced that $1.5M in federal grants were provided
STANFORD, Conn. - Security services provided "in the cloud" have the potential to provide cost savings and faster deployment compared with equivalent-capacity, premises-based equipment, but providers are yet to deliver on customer expectations, according to Gartner. And that's bad news in more ways than one, because technologies at the "Peak of Inflated Expectations" on a
LANSING - Though committee members did not overtly oppose, or support, findings that power plants proposed by Consumers Energy and Wolverine Cooperative were not needed, members of the Senate Energy Policy and Public Utilities Committee did question the Public Service Commission staff's ability to forecast power needs. The PSC staff had found that projected demand
LANSING - Some of the projects funded with federal stimulus money could come to a halt along with the end of the state's wetlands program, officials confirmed Thursday. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 Acting Director Bharat Mathur urged the state to keep operating its program for at least a few months, even if the
DETROIT- According to the Wall Street Journal, Toyota is planning a $1 billion marketing push in the fourth quarter in the American market. The strategy was formulated in part by Akio Toyoda himself, and aims to invigorate the company's sagging North American operations. $1 billion is a huge amount of money for an automaker to
SAN FRANCISCO - The study released Tuesday by the security-focused SANS Institute states that the cybersecurity community is facing an epidemic of unpatched software, particularly widely used applications like Adobe Flash, Java and Microsoft programs like Word and PowerPoint. The report, which used data that vulnerability assessment firm Qualys collected from about 100 million scans
ANN ARBOR - Research spending at the University of Michigan in 2008-09 exceeded $1 billion for the first time, a 9.4 percent gain over the previous fiscal year. The federal government provided 64.4 percent of the funds, and federal research spending at the U-M rose 7.1 percent over 2007-08. The exact total was $1.02 billion.