Reuters) – The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency told software vendors on Tuesday that it plans to revolutionize the way it does business with them as part of a race to keep up with the blazing pace of technology advances. Rather than stick with traditional all-you-can-eat deals known as “enterprise licensing agreements,” the CIA wants to [...]

Cryptography researcher Arjen Lenstra has this week responded to criticism of a paper he co-authored that claimed to uncover weaknesses within the implementation of the RSA encryption system. RSA, a division of IT giant EMC, says that there’s nothing wrong with the RSA algorithm, it’s an implementation issue mainly with random number key generation. “If [...]

And you thought SOPA and PIPA were bad. Republican Senator John McCain is sounding the alarm about legislation that would allow the Department of Homeland Security to legally monitor websites. New legislation would allow for DHS to monitor the companies operating cyber security software for the government, while failing to actually monitor or stop cyber [...]

President Barack Obama’s $3.8 trillion federal budget for 2013 includes $78.9 billion for IT. Depending how the numbers are crunched, that’s a slight decrease of between 1 percent and 1.2 percent from the $79.8 billion allocated for IT in the 2012 budget. Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel told reporters earlier this week that the administration remains [...]

MCLEAN, Va., Feb 21, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — A new Government Health IT survey sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton found that only 56 percent of government health IT and security professionals believe their organizations are in full compliance with current security and privacy requirements, while 60 percent said they have a holistic security strategy in [...]

McLean, VA, February 21, 2012 – Becrypt, a leading supplier of cybersecurity solutions to Federal and Local government agencies, Department of Defense and other public sector organizations has further extended its Full Disk Encryption software to tablet devices. Becrypt’s award winning DISK Protect full disk encryption solution, which is FIPS 140-2 compliant, is now available [...]

In a bulletin sent to the Falmouth Police Department, the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center warns of an increase in email phishing scams in the weeks leading up to the April 15 deadline for filing tax returns. According to the bulletin, each year scammers take advantage of taxpayers’ focus on [...]

Three of the largest agencies are using improved governance processes to reduce the number of duplicative technology systems. The Defense Department has developed a three pronged approach to examine new IT projects. Teri Takai, the DoD chief information officer, said the investment review board, the acquisition process and the Defense Business Systems Management Committee have [...]

Science Technology Directorate spending would increase by an inflation-adjusted 22.8 percent under the White House fiscal 2013 budget proposal transmitted Feb. 13 to Congress. The directorate would see funding under the budget proposal go down for some efforts, notably the proposed National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, for which the proposal requests no money at all. [...]

BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 16 (UPI) – The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency’s project to streamline and modernize the Department of Defense information system is receiving consultant support. Support from DMI of Maryland will include program and project management; technology recommendations; integration of technology solutions and engineering; service operations, including infrastructure support; cybersecurity; and information assurance. “We are [...]