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Crimeware server exposes breadth of data theft

05/06/08 -- 09:36 AM A 1.4 gigabyte cache of stolen data from North America, Europe, the Middle East and India was found on a Malaysian server that provided command and control functions for malware attacks.

Navy focuses on periscope camera

05/05/08 -- 01:32 PM The Navy is going to test a 360-degree, high-resolution prototype camera designed for attachment to a conventional Type 18 submarine periscope.

Toronto police struggle with GIS’ success

05/05/08; Vol. 27, No. 10 23 Toronto police analysts use GIS to analyze crime, but the data is not as easy to access in the field and officers can’t run queries against the data from the field.

Wyatt Kash | Good ideas converge

05/05/08; Vol. 27, No. 10 Editor’s desk—commentary: Financial pressures, security concerns driving data center consolidation are intersecting with the demand for green computing and emerging virtualization capabilities.

Can’t beat ’em, print ’em

05/05/08; Vol. 27, No. 10 Technicalities—Get ready for the Wikipedia print edition.

Ready, aim, record

05/05/08; Vol. 27, No. 10 Army’s prototype system uses RFID tags to track weapons use.

Tools to make sense of sensors

05/05/08; Vol. 27, No. 10 SensorBridge software helps Army build the middleware that converts data into database-ready information.

Lynn McNulty | Information security goes pro

05/05/08; Vol. 27, No. 10 GCN Interview: During 30 years in government service and more than a decade as a consultant, Lynn McNulty has been recognized as a leader in making information security a profession rather than a job. Most recently, the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium made him the third Fellow of (ISC)2.

Nowhere to hide

05/05/08; Vol. 27, No. 10 GCN Lab review: Identity Finder makes it easy to locate and manage documents with ID info.

This pen is worth 1,000 words

05/05/08; Vol. 27, No. 10 GCN Lab review: DocuPen gives you portable scanning power, once you get a feel for it.

Ballot box blues

04/28/08; Vol. 27, No. 9 States, wary of DRE’s software flaws, look for a verifiable paper trail.

Vegas bets on BPEL

04/28/08; Vol. 27, No. 9 Process execution language links systems and automates tasks.

A key to mobile security

04/28/08; Vol. 27, No. 9 Encrypted flash drives protect Washington’s child support data.

To each his own storage

04/28/08; Vol. 27, No. 9 Agencies need to build backup systems to match their unique storage challenges.

IBM debuts iDataPlex servers

04/24/08 -- 12:46 PM IBM has unveiled a new category of servers addressing the needs of organizations that use high-performance and Web 2.0 computing to operate massive data centers.

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