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Counterfeit milspec electronics easily bought online
Government Accountability Office investigators found it easy to purchase counterfeit milspec parts via private sector Internet buying websites, the GAO says in a Feb. 21 report released March 26. At
ISPs: Cybersecurity can't be handled through regulation
Many of the tropes of the cybersecurity discussion in federal agencies and Congress came under challenge from a March 7 panel before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on communications and
Experts disagree on focus of cybersecurity legislation
Cybersecurity legislation is needed, agreed the panelists speaking Feb. 8 before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on communications and technology--but what that legislation should look
CFATS can be fixed, DHS officials tell skeptical House Republicans
Homeland Security Department officials emphasized progress in a troubled program overseeing chemical facility safety before a skeptical audience of Republican lawmakers during a Feb. 3 hearing. "Bad
Insisting on Yucca Mountain won't fix nuclear waste problem, says Hamilton
The fact of Yucca Mountain still standing empty of nuclear waste is a testament to the need for a new approach to siting permanent nuclear waste disposal factories, said a co-chair of a blue ribbon
Skepticism over ICANN TLD expansion persists
A Dec. 14 House hearing on the planned rollout of new top level domains for the web did little to allay skeptics' worries. ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has managed
Adoption of E.U. data privacy laws unlikely
As lawmakers ponder whether or not pursue Internet privacy legislation, one thing appears certain: The United States won't adopt the European Union's privacy and data collection regulations, if a
NSTIC pilots expected next year; NIST releases NSTIC RFP
Pilot programs for an identity ecosystem as envisioned in the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (.pdf) will begin in 2012, according to a National Institute of Standards and
Strickling notes complications of 1755-1850 MHz reallocation
Reallocation of federally-controlled spectrum in the 1755-1850 Megahertz band to the private sector would be complicated by the varied national security and law enforcement uses of that spectrum,
D block reallocation bill clears Senate committee
Advocates of reallocation for public safety usage of a 10 megahertz swath of 700 MHz spectrum known as the D block cheered the June 8 Senate committee passage of a bill that would do so. The bill S.
