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White House Denies Establishing Contact with E.T.

Interestingly enough, the US federal government actually answered a couple of petitions from the general public, inquiring as to whether American authorities ever established contact with alien civilizations. The answer, as expected, is no. “The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our p...

8 November 2011
04:48 GMT

Physicians Who Use Drchrono EHR iPad App Can Save $44,000 a Year

Drchrono, a free Electronic Health Record (EHR) app for the Apple iPad has received official government certification that will result in doctors receiving tens of thousands of dollars in incentives when they use the electronic medical records platform. Making drchrono the first native EHR on the iPad to be certif...

29 July 2011
10:06 GMT

American Cloud Providers Share Foreign Data with US Government

Microsoft admitted that itself and other American companies can be forced to hand over data belonging to foreign citizens hosted in datacenters around the world to the US government.Although this has been suspected for a while, none of the big cloud services providers have ever publicly acknowledged it.However, when ...

2 July 2011
01:31 GMT

US Government Departments Targeted in bin Laden Death-Themed Attack

Security researchers warn that many departments in the US government were targeted in an email attack using a bin Laden death theme and distributing malicious .doc files.The rogue emails bear a subject of "Courier who led U.S. to Osama bin Laden's hideout identified" and carry a simple message reading "to whom i...

5 May 2011
14:38 GMT

US Government Lifts Internet Ban on Cuba, Iran and Sudan

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has lifted some limitations it imposed on US-based software makers and web service providers regarding three countries: Cuba, Iran and Sudan. The bans applied to North Korea and Syria still remain in place, and apply to any software tr...

9 March 2010
09:10 GMT

White House to Get Dedicated Cloud for Google Apps

The US government has launched a new website, Apps.gov, dedicated to bringing cloud-based applications and services to official agencies at any level. This is part of a larger initiative to move the government's infrastructure into the cloud while decreasing the costs associated with IT. Google seems to be very ...

16 September 2009
10:01 GMT

US Government Moves to the Cloud with Apps.gov

You wouldn't expect the government to be on the cutting edge of technology but a new push by the White House will have many US government organizations move to the cloud in an effort to cut costs associated with IT. A first step is the launch of the new Apps.gov site, which is an online marketplace for cloud-bas...

16 September 2009
09:17 GMT

US Asks China to Rethink Deployment of Internet Filtering Software

The U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk have sent an official letter to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), asking them to cancel and rethink the proposal that requires PCs sold in the country to come with a con...

27 June 2009
05:24 GMT

FBI, CIA, and DoD Data Compromised

During the International Crime Science conference that was held in London last week, Professor Walker revealed to the whole world that information contained in the CIA, FBI, US Department of Defense (DoD) databases had been compromised. This occurred earlier this year when a partner agency granted zone transfer acces...

29 July 2008
10:54 GMT

White House to Tighten E-Mail Security

The Presidential and Federal Records Act has been revised and updated by the US House of Representatives because recent events have proved that e-mail recording was a "bit" lax, leading to about 5 million lost e-mails a couple of months ago.Historic letters from the US' past are treated with the accurate respect...

11 July 2008
06:18 GMT

New Homepage Changes for Google

You may not have noticed, but starting with the 3rd of July, Google has modified its main page. Just bellow the "About Google" tab, there used to be "© 2008 Google". Now that link has been swapped for this one "© 2008 - Privacy". Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two founders of Google, opted for the term "privacy" no...

5 July 2008
04:03 GMT

Spammer Uses Texas Attorney General as Front

It seems that somebody has decided to take advantage of the good name of Greg Abbott, the Attorney General for the state of Texas, USA. The whole thing came out when Greg Abbott received a message from Greg Abbott of course; you can imagine his surprise when he opened his inbox. The message uses a picture of his as ...

4 July 2008
12:27 GMT

Identity Theft Under Federal Microscope

The FTC (short for Federal Trade Commission) takes ID theft very seriously and consequently is planning to conduct a survey on identity theft victims that have contacted the organization earlier this year. The goal of this survey is to detect flaws in the system, make crime fighting more efficient and better educate...

4 July 2008
05:58 GMT

US Government Accused of Exploiting Technology

The EFF (short for Electronic Frontier Foundation) and the ACLU (short for American Civil Liberties Union) have initiated legal action against the United States Government. The above mentioned organizations decided to sue the federal government after the Freedom of Information request that was filed last year went u...

3 July 2008
12:32 GMT

US Government, Forced to Buy Green PCs

The United States government has come up with a plan to force federal agencies to purchase energy-efficient and eco-friendly PCs and displays. The rule was issued on December the 26th by the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA and the General Services Administration, and specifies that all agencies are required to use t...

14 January 2008
03:23 GMT


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