China will punish Internet Web sites and other new media that broadcast the Beijing Olympic Games and related events without the authorization of state-run China Central Television, the government said.New media broadcast rights for the summer games were exclusively granted to CCTV by the International Olympic Committee, according to a joint statement by the State [...]

Vacationers should only check their bank accounts at internet cafes in emergencies, warns the BSI German Federal Agency for Security in Information Technology.Transferring funds or even simply checking an account balance gives hackers an opportunity to plunder accounts, says the agency.’That’s because you never know how much time and money the owners have invested into [...]

As the menace of cybercrime continues to ravage the economy, an anti cyber crime campaign organisation, Global Network for Cyber solution, is collaborating with the Federal Ministry of Justice and the National Information Technology Development Agency NITDA to ensure digital national security.A statement made available to THISDAY said that the organisations are set to hold [...]

The Auditor-General has updated and replaced the 2001 good practice guide on procurement, including a section on information technology procurement.The new guide includes policies and standards for public entities to consider when implementing e-procurement and reference to guidance for public entities to consider when procuring information technology.the guidelines say a public entity that implements e-procurement [...]

Computer security is a branch of information technology that relates specifically to measures taken to protect the data on computers from being corrupted or misused. Computer security comes in a myriad of different forms depending on what level of protection is required.
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The Information Technology Association of America has absorbed the Cyber Security Industry Alliance, a lobby that has been pressuring lawmakers to pass federal data security and breach notification measures.
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This paper analyzes the work of Rob Kling of social informatics and how implementing it in information technology organizations might cause difficulties. Social informatics is identified as, the interdisciplinary study of the design uses and consequences of information technologies that takes into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts”. This complex interdisciplinary approach consolidates [...]

Former White House security adviser Howard Schmidt talked about the government’s efforts to ensure the security of their information technology systems.

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The Center for Democracy & Technology launched a major project on health privacy and information technology. To fulfill an ambitious agenda CDT is joining forces with the Health Privacy Project, which…
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Members of the House of Representative sought details, on Thursday, of a $30 billion plan to secure federal government systems and upgrade network defenses to ward off attacks from foreign nations and online criminals.
 
Known as the Cyber Initiative, the Bush Administration project would dramatically reduce the number of interconnections between federal government networks and [...]

In the wake of a Princeton research team’s surprising announcement of a simple method for stealing encrypted data from DRAM chips on PCs – even after the unit’s power has been shut off – security experts told SCMagazineUS.com on Friday that the tools to thwart these thefts already are available.
A team headed by Edward Felten, [...]

Online fraudsters have put college students in their sights.
In an ongoing attack, students and faculty at nearly a dozen universities and colleges have been targeted by phishing e-mails since the middle of January. The e-mail messages masquerade as missives from each school’s help desk, asking that the student confirm their username and password as well [...]