NIST seeks comments on digital signatures draft regulation
The National Institute for Standards and Technology wants government and industry to comment by June 12 on its new draft standards for digital signatures, according to a request for comments issued today. The draft Federal Information Processing Standa...
Ex-GM guard charged with hacking into company database
A former security guard at a General Motors" technical center has been charged with stealing documents containing the names and Social Security numbers of about 100 GM employees and using those numbers to hack into the company"s employee-vehicle database, ...
New denial-of-service threat emerges
A new kind of denial-of-service attack has emerged that delivers a heftier blow to organizations" systems than previously seen DOS threats, according to VeriSign"s security chief. The new DOS attacks first emerged in late December and kicked into high ...
Gates Unleashes Security Initiatives at RSA
A laptop computer containing the names, Social Security numbers, compensation and other information for 196,000 current and former Hewlett-Packard employees was stolen a week ago, HP confirmed Wednesday. The employees were all participants in HP"s company...
Statewide Databases of Registered Voters: Study Of Accuracy, Privacy, Usability, Security, and Reliability Issues
Over the past 20 years, there"s been a sea change in the battle for personal privacy. The pervasiveness of computers has resulted in the almost constant surveillance of everyone, with profound implications for our society and our freedoms. Corporations a...
Laptop with Hewlett-Packard employees" ID stolen
European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx criticized governments" fondness for biometrics to identify citizens and warned that greater interoperability of databases may have serious implications for people. In response to a recent communication...
The Future of Privacy
Nine out of ten Americans want their banks to monitor their online accounts for signs of suspicious behavior, much as credit card companies do now, a survey published Tuesday said. Conducted by RSA Security, the poll also found that although consumers ar...