Senate Panel: 80 Percent of Cyber Attacks Preventable
Wired News
The remark was made by Richard Schaeffer, the NSA’s information assurance director, who added that simply adhering to already known best practices would sufficiently raise the security bar so that attackers would have to take more risks to ...
NSA role in Windows 7 development raises privacy concerns
Infoworld
Roger Thompson, chief research officer at AVG Technologies, agreed. "I can't imagine NSA and Microsoft would do anything deliberate because the repercussions would be enormous if they got caught," he said in an interview via instant messagi...
NSA helped with Windows 7; H1-B bill aims at tech firms
Network World Fusion
Computerworld is reporting that the National Security Agency worked with Microsoft on the development of Windows 7. Also, the two lawmakers who successfully added H-1B hiring restrictions to the financial bailout bill earlier this year have...
NSA wins state title in VIS Division II
Tidewater News
Nansemond-Suffolk Academy won the Virginia Independent Schools Division II state football championship with a 17-0 victory over Blue Ridge in St. George on Saturday afternoon. The Saints’ defense held the Barons to 8 yards of total offense ...
Microsoft Denies Programming NSA-Accessible Backdoors Into Windows 7
Gizmodo
Hey now! Just because the NSA helped Microsoft hone the security of Windows 7 doesn't mean Microsoft designed special backdoors for the organization to spy on us...right? In a response to Computerworld's article on NSA involvement in Window...
Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7
The Business Insider
A National Security Agency director just bragged to a Senate subcommittee about his agency's close "cooperation" with Microsoft to, err, "enhance" how Windows 7 guards a user's privacy. Doesn't that just make you feel all warm and fuzzy? Th...
Against every form of imprisonment! Jürgen and Paolo free!
Indymedia Italia
The fact that fascist organisations such as the NSV and the NSA [National Socialist Action] get a free game and are zealously protected by the police forces has deep implications. The extreme right tosses up all sorts of “problems” that hav...
International terror network to be high on Indo-US talks agenda
Mynews India
Meanwhile, National Security Advisor (NSA) M K Narayanan had a meeting with CIA Chief Leon Baneta in New Delhi yesterday, during which terrorism and situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan were discussed. The sources said during the meeting, ...
Microsoft fights claims of NSA backdoor in Win 7
Electronista
Microsoft in a response late Thursday rejected assertions that it has put in a security "backdoor" at the request of the National Security Agency. The denial comes after the NSA's information assurance lead, Richard Schaeffer, told a US Sen...
CIA chief kicks off India visit, meets NSA
Zee News
New Delhi: CIA chief Leon E Panetta on Saturday met National Security Advisor M K Narayanan and discussed issues relating to the presence of terror groups in neighbouring Pakistan and Afghanistan and their impact on India. Panetta, who arri...
Details about NSA cyberattack during Bush administration revealed
FederalNewsRadio.com
Army Brigadier general Steven Smith, head of the Army cyber task force, says the plans were due November 2. Smith says the strategies will address people and cyber tools each service will bring to the command. Smith expects the Army's plan ...