The man in charge of IT security for the US Homeland Security department may lose his job after the revelations that his department's IT systems have misconfigured firewalls, suspicious botnet activity, trojans and virus infections.
A US government study into the prevalence of phoney Web sites has found that 3.89 million domain names, or 8.6 percent, were registered with false or incomplete information.
Radio frequency identification is becoming increasingly popular inside the US government, but agencies have not seriously considered the privacy risks, federal auditors said.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has weaknesses in its information security and accountancy practices that should prevent fraud and ensure financial accuracy in other companies, according to auditors.
In a move that has re-energised the debate over export controls on high-performance computers, the latest version of a US defense-spending bill would require companies to seek licenses to export even underpowered desktop computers.
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