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1)
CISO leaving Commerce for GAO
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/42932-1.html
Nancy DeFrancesco, the Commerce Departments Chief Information Security
Officer, is leaving the department to return to the Government
Accountability Office.
She will serve in GAO as an assistant director for security on the
watchdog agencys Information Technology team, the same position she held
before going to Commerce in April 2002.
In May 2006, DeFrancesco convinced Commerce officials to establish an
education and training program for its information security
professionals. The department awarded a contract to (ISC) 2 Inc. of Palm
Harbor, Fla., to provide courses for employees to earn designations as
Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP), System
Security Certified Professionals (SSCP) and Certification and
Accreditation Professionals (CAP).
DeFrancesco declined to comment on her reasons for returning to GAO.

2)
Oracle plugs 51 security flaws
http://news.com.com/Oracle+plugs+51+security+flaws/2100-1002_3-6150671.html

3)
Computer Privacy in Distress
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72510-0.html
By Jennifer Granick
My laptop computer was purchased by Stanford, but my whole life is
stored on it. I have e-mail dating back several years, my address book
with the names of everyone I know, notes and musings for various work
and personal projects, financial records, passwords to my blog, my web
mail, project and information management data for various organizations
I belong to, photos of my niece and nephew and my pets.
In short, my computer is my most private possession. I have other things
that are more dear, but no one item could tell you more about me than
this machine.
Yet, a rash of recent court decisions says the Constitution may not be
enough to protect my laptop from arbitrary, suspicionless and
warrantless examination by the police.
At issue is the Fourth Amendment, which protects individuals from
unreasonable searches and seizures by government agents. As a primary
safeguard against arbitrary and capricious searches, property seizures
and arrests, the founding fathers required the government to first seek
a warrant from a judge or magistrate.


4)
DIMVA 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS
http://www.dimva.org/dimva2007
Fourth GI International Conference on
Detection of Intrusions & Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment
Organized by the GI Special Interest Group SIDAR
In Cooperation with
IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Information Assurance
Lucerne, SwitzerlandJuly 12 - 13, 2007

5)
Firm hired to improve VA security
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4478418.html
HAGERSTOWN, Md. - The Department of Veterans Affairs will pay a defense
contractor millions of dollars to help the agency improve data security
after the theft last year of a computer packed with personal
information, company officials said Wednesday.
The project, focusing on the behavior of the department's 235,000
workers, is part of the VA's effort to better protect sensitive
information after a laptop computer and external drive containing the
personal information of about 26.5 million veterans and military members
was stolen last spring.
Maryland-based Engineering Systems Solutions Inc. and subcontractor
Dreifus Associates Ltd. Inc., of Maitland, Fla., will work on the
five-year contract, which is worth $2.3 million in the first year and an
undefined amount for the rest, said Laura Nash, director of strategic
consulting at Engineering Systems Solutions.


6)
DHS tracking system will keep eye on IT workers
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/42852-1.html
A new records system is being designed to allow the Homeland Security
Department to monitor the names, passwords, citizenship information and
other data on thousands of IT workers with access to the departments
systems.
In a notice posted Dec. 29, DHS announced it is creating a new
sensitive, but unclassified, database as part of its General Information
Technology Access Account Records System. The department made the notice
to comply with the Privacy Act of 1974, which regulates how the
government collects and uses personal information.


7)
Unsecured networks open door for hackers, spies
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123035765
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (AFPN) -- With wireless technology,
consumers can easily network their computers within their household and
access the Internet through any of their computers.
Consumers can sit in a lawn chair on their back porch and catch up on
their e-mail and news, even do some online banking. But with this
newfound convenience lies a new danger.
"Any information that travels over a wireless network can be accessed by
anyone on that network," said Steve Carlson, 99th Communications
Squadron wireless security manager. "Even if you're accessing a secure
Web site, your information is only secure between the Internet and your
wireless router. Everything traveling between that wireless router and
your laptop is visible."

8)
Foreign spy activity surges to fill technology gap
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20070102-111005-9819r.htm
Foreign spies are stepping up efforts to obtain secret U.S. technology
through methods ranging from sexual entrapment to Internet hacking, with
China and other Asian countries leading the targeting of U.S. defense
contractors.
"The apparent across-the-board surge in activity from East Asia and
Pacific countries will continue in the short term as gaps in
technological capability become apparent in their weapons-development
processes," the latest annual report by the Defense Security Service
counterintelligence office stated.

9)
Ten Tips to protect your computer when you travel.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/technology/securityverisign.html
Choose from Mild, Moderate of Paranoid protection advice.

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