New York Post (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
THERE'S little chance of being moonstruck by "Romantic Poetry," the new musical collaboration between John Patrick Shanley and composer Henry Krieger ("Dreamgirls"). This leaden attempt at whimsicality tries without success to recapture the comic...
Homeland Security Watch (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Whatever happened to the public-private partnership? There may be a disconnect between what the private sector says is necessary to better secure cyber space and what the government is willing to do, according to a piece the LA Times runs today highlighting a rift between cyber experts among the private sector and the government, [...]
Cnet (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Four members of a panel convened by the Center for Strategic and International Studies say the next administration should focus on industry-government collaboration. So have many people before them.
Cnet (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Four members of a group convened by the Center for Strategic and International Studies say the next administration must focus on industry-government collaboration.
Cnet (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The urgency to patch clients and servers rises to a fever pitch as code to attack the Internet is released. Two Black Hat presenters had conflicted over the timing of the code release.
abyss2hope: A rape survivor's zigza (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
From Boston.com : The DNA that had cleared Anthony Powell, 38, of Boston of rape eventually led prosecutors to Jerry Dixon, 35, who was arraigned yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court in the same rape case, along with one other. [...] In 2004, investigators searched an FBI database that linked four unsolved Boston rape cases but did not reveal a perpetrator. Based on the forensic findings, a Suffolk...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Utilizing DNA evidence, police were able to arrest a Dorchester man yesterday in connection with a series of unsolved rapes dating back nearly two decades. One of those cases had led to a man being wrongly imprisoned until 2004.
sarbanes-oxley world (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
(ISC)2(R) ("ISC-squared"), a non-profit provider of educating and certifying information security professionals throughout their careers, today announced its fourth annual 2008 SecureAmericas information security conference scheduled for May 21-22 at the Sheraton Premiere at Tysons Corner in Vienna, Va. The two-day conference agenda will include simultaneous tracks on 1) government security and 2)...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
U.S. Government Security Thought Leaders and Corporate Experts Will Discuss Imminent Security Issues that Await the 44th President VIENNA, Va., May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- (ISC)2(R) ("ISC-squared"), the non-profit global leader in educating and certifying information security professionals throughout their careers, today announced its fourth annual 2008 SecureAmericas information security conference...
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Today In Theatre History: APRIL 8and Ernio Hernandez and Anne Bradley08 Apr 2008 1904 The New York Times moves its editorial offices to Long Acre Square, prompting a name change to Times Square.1904 New York City bids adieu to Longacre Square, which had no particular reputation, and says hello to Times Square, which soon develops quite a reputation indeed. Mayor George B. McClennan (son of the Civil...
Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
Brian Krebs writes on Security Fix : But lest anyone think VoIP vulnerabilities are nothing to be concerned about, consider the rather shocking tidbit shared last month at the Black Hat hacker conference in Washington, D.C. by Jerry Dixon, former head of the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division. Dixon warned that VoIP vulnerabilities are opening dangerous new avenues of...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NetWitness Corporation, the leading provider of next generation network monitoring and threat analysis solutions today announced its security experts are
TaoSecurity (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008
Better late than never, I suppose. I taught TCP/IP Weapons School at Black Hat DC 2008 last month, and I also attended two days of briefings (many available in the archives ). The briefings began with Jerry Dixon from Team Cymru , which appears to now offer commercial services related to large scale Internet monitoring and infrastructure issues. Jerry noted several problems hampering security efforts,...
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
It's time, once again, for Cyber Storm, the "the largest-ever exercise designed to evaluate the mettle of information technology experts and incident response teams" from 18 federal agencies and nine states, The Washington Post. Jerry Dixon, a former director of the National Cyber Security Division...
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Washington Post: The U.S. government will conduct a series of cyber war games throughout next week to test its ability to recover from and respond to digital attacks. Code-named 'Cyber Storm II,' this is the largest-ever exercise designed to evaluate the mettle of information technology experts and incident response teams from 18 federal agencies, including the CIA, Department of Defense, FBI, and...
