This Week In Computer Security

This week in computer security wasn’t as rough as in weeks past, with few major breaches or attacks of note. The real news this week comes in the form of leaked documents, exploits, and emails and an interesting operating system supposedly from the Anonymous collective. Anonymous OS: Anonymous supposedly released an eponymous operating system containingRead… Read more »

Please Help A Federal Agency In A Technology Search

I’ve been asked, along with several other volunteer researchers, to brainstorm to produce a list of new technologies to bring to the attention of several federal CTOs. This is part of a not-for-profit activity designed to help keep a slice of the federal community informed. I would appreciate it if I could enlist your helpRead… Read more »

Encryption of police radio

Deltek Analyst Luke Harris reports. Police departments are more and more looking into encrypting their radio communications now that cheaper and user-friendly scanner equipment is readily available. From the view of police departments, this move increases officer and public safety because it shields their communications from criminals. From the perspective of news media and governmentRead… Read more »

Data.gc.ca – Data Sets I found that are interesting, and some suggestions

Yesterday was the one year anniversary of the Canadian federal government’s open data portal. Over the past year government officials have been continuously adding to the portal, but as it isn’t particularly easy to browse data sets on the website, I’ve noticed a lot of people aren’t aware of what data is now available (selfRead… Read more »

Federal District Court Issues Troubling Decision Regarding Public Disclosure Bar

Guest Blogger: Jason Workmaster, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP In a long-running civil False Claims Act (“FCA”) case, United States ex rel. Rille v. Sun Microsystems, Inc., No. 4:04-C-V00986-BRW, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas recently denied a Government motion to dismiss, on public disclosure grounds, the relators’ claim that SunRead… Read more »

The Fifth Gate in the Pipeline: Managing a Business

By the time, we’ve gotten to the Fifth Gate in the Leadership Pipeline, we should have spent some quality time mastering the previous four. This gate is punctuated by enormous complexity and significant (perhaps the most significant of all the gates) changes in thinking. The Business Manager needs to come to terms with being highlyRead… Read more »