Officials in Harris County, Texas are scrambling to find replacement e-voting machines for this year's gubernatorial elections after a fire destroyed all 10,000 machines scheduled for use this fall.
The European Union's Commissioner for Customs and Anti-Fraud is in China to discuss how the Chinese authorities and the E.U. can reduce trafficking in illegal products, particularly those that breach intellectual property rights by infringing on patents, copyrights or trademarks.
A panel of federal appeals court judges has ruled that DEA agents can attach GPS devices onto vehicles parked on private property when investigating crimes; the decision is likely to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
China is stepping up efforts to keep the security systems that protect its critical infrastructure in the hands of local firms, and that could be bad news for companies based outside the country.
The U.S. military wants to exert more influence over the protection of power grids, transportation networks and financial network systems, a Pentagon official says in a broad-ranging essay published in Foreign Affairs.
The most significant breach of U.S. military computers ever was carried out in 2008 by W32.SillyFDC, a low-level-threat worm that got into the network via a thumb drive plugged into a military laptop.
The Social Security Administration says it will announce in September a new award for data networking services following Qwest's successful -- but secretive -- legal protest of the original awards to Verizon and AT&T.
Although U.S. military networks are attacked all the time, it took a successful thumb-drive assault on the Pentagon in 2008 to convince the U.S. military to do revise its cybersecurity strategy, according to a published report.
Most IT professionals use private e-mail accounts to transfer confidential corporate information -- the same routine used by an Apple manager charged with bribery.
China needs to promote more creativity in the IT industry rather than imitate Western companies, a panel of business executives said during the 2010 China Internet Conference on Tuesday.
