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Restoring Congress's Proper Role in Oversight of Covert Intelligence Operations

whitepaper Because the Central Intelligence Agency was born out of another deadly intelligence failure, the Pearl Harbor attack, it is a particularly fitting time to reconsider how best to equip the CIA to help fight the war on terrorism.

Tags: anti-hacking, failure, intelligence, attacks

[10 Apr 2008]

Cyber-extortion on the rise - but targets the 'fringe'

News The blog was in response to a CIA statement, reported by security training body the Sans Institute, that a cyberattack had caused a power blackout in multiple cities in a country outside the US. The CIA also said it had evidence of blackmail...

Tags: cyberattack, gamble, cia, institute

[24 Jan 2008]

CIA: Cyberattacks cut power to "multiple cities"

News The CIA has said a cyberattack caused a power blackout in multiple cities in a country outside the US. Security training body the Sans Institute reported the CIA's disclosure. CIA senior analyst Tom Donahue told a Sans Institute conference in New...

Tags: cia, cyberattack, evidence, attacks

[21 Jan 2008]

J. Llorente y Cia. S.A. Improves Operational Agility and Optimizes Administrative Processes

whitepaper Llorente y Cia. J. S.A.wanted to migrate to an updated and stable platform that integrates the company's different systems throughout its branches, production plants, remote users, and central administrative office in Buenos Aires and consolidate...

Tags: erp

[18 Dec 2007]

Juan Marcet Establishes a High Availability Database and Achieves Maximum Productivity

whitepaper Juan Marcet Cia Ltda.is a leading retailer and distributor of school products, office supplies, electronics, and computer accessories in Ecuador. The company wanted to unify systems in a single, flexible, and scalable technology and consolidate...

Tags: high availability, consolidate, linux red hat, unified

[05 Sep 2007]

Local Spatial Data Infrastructures Based on a Service-Oriented Architecture

whitepaper Sharing geographic information is an essential activity which has been sought since the early days of GIS, mostly due to the cost of information collection and maintenance. Having once depended on the establishment of data transfer standards...

Tags: gps - gis, oriented, creation, geographic

[21 Mar 2007]

Local Spatial Data Infrastructures Based on a Service-Oriented Architecture

whitepaper Sharing geographic information is an essential activity which has been sought since the early days of GIS, mostly due to the cost of information collection and maintenance. Having once depended on the establishment of data transfer standards...

Tags: gps - gis, creation, oriented, geographic

[21 Mar 2007]

Access, Organize, and Manage Your Documents More Easily With Windows Vista

whitepaper Whether the user save documents in subfolders buried 10 deep, or try to contend with file naming conventions that would baffle CIA code-breakers, he is not alone. Finding and accessing the right content when a user need it or organizing and...

Tags: documents, vista, windows vista, consuming

[08 Dec 2006]

US cyber spies want more rights to snoop

News At a US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, CIA director Michael Hayden (who until recently headed the National Security Agency) and NSA director Keith Alexander urged adoption of a proposal that would grant spy agencies more power...

Tags: wiretapping, snoop

[27 Jul 2006]

DataFort Security Appliances for SAN, NAS, DAS and Tape

whitepaper Decru is partially funded by In-Q-Tel, a VC firm that is backed by the CIA. Government organizations have been securing data for years, often using proprietary methods. Because they were looking for a strong, centrally managed appliance to secure...

Tags: store, appliance, connections, country

[02 Feb 2006]

US push for more internal anti-terror data sharing

News That task belongs to the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, a joint project run by Homeland Security, the Pentagon, the CIA and the FBI. The Bush administration said on Tuesday it would make greater use of what the US government calls "travel...

Tags: data sharing, anti-terror, terrorism

[18 Jan 2006]

Launching a Project Management Certification Program at the CIA

whitepaper The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is now embarking on this path; an internal agency-wide Project Management Training and Certification Program (PMTCP) is now being created. This paper examines the dynamics within the CIA associated with project...

Tags: training, agency, project management, certification

[12 Dec 2005]

Sober virus code cracked by security firms

News The latest variant of the Sober worm caused havoc in November by duping users into executing it by masking itself as emails from the FBI and CIA. Antivirus companies say they have cracked an algorithm that was being used by the Sober worm to...

Tags: worm, virus, sober

[12 Dec 2005]

Expect worms in the New Year, say experts

News Some Sober emails have included Nazi propaganda, while others posed as messages from the CIA, the FBI and the UK's National High-Tech Crime Unit.iDefense believes a 5 January attack may be spreading more Nazi propaganda.

Tags: sober virus, sober, virus, hate mail

[08 Dec 2005]

CIA Lands a Lot More Than Just Planes With Hyperion Intelligence to Support Tourism and Marketing Initiatives

whitepaper Christchurch International Airport (CIA) is the major international gateway to the city of Christchurch and the South Island of New Zealand. In the late 1990's CIA decided to make viewing, analysing, and manipulating company information more...

Tags: international, intelligence, cia, enabled

[20 Oct 2005]

National Intelligence and the Integration Gap: A Common National Data Model

whitepaper For example, if FBI watch-list information and CIA suspicious activity information were combined and available throughout various government and commercial enterprises (such as airlines), perhaps it could help immensely in detecting potential...

Tags: knowledge and data management, activity, article, commercial

[01 Sep 2005]

US flunks cyber security prep test

US flunks cyber security prep test

News It was convened by the CIA's secretive Information Operations Center and was set to conclude on Thursday. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has failed to live up to its cyber security responsibilities and may be "unprepared" for...

Tags: cyber security, homeland security, us

[27 May 2005]

Chatham Internet Access (CIA): Communication Solutions With SR Telecom

whitepaper The angel's feature set for cost-effective delivery of high speed service is critically important to CIA. While this is the company's first foray into licensed spectrum delivery of data and voice services, CIA has considerable experience in...

Tags: modems, voice, delivery, ghz

[04 Mar 2005]

Security at the Next Level: Are Your Web Applications Vulnerable?

whitepaper to government agencies such as NASA and the CIA. Everyone gets hacked, from large consumer e-commerce sites and portals such as Yahoo! In the past, the majority of security breaches occurred at the network layer of corporate systems.

Tags: anti-hacking, agencies, consumer, sites

[20 Feb 2005]

Special Ops Symposium Looks at Future of Coalition Warfare

whitepaper Defense Secretary and CIA director are working to make sure President Bush has a full range of options for dealing with terror threats. Studies are under way to determine whether all of the CIA's paramilitary activities should fall under DoD's...

Tags: border security, president bush, cia, threats

[14 Feb 2005]

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