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Iomega debuts Ditto MaxIomega Corp. last week announced Ditto Max a tape backup drive which supports 3.5G 5G 7G or 10G compressedcapacity cartridges. Ditto Max's multiplecapacity feature is designed to prevent users from outgrowing their tape backup gear as their hard disks increase in capacity.
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Senate panel passes new bill requiring key-recovery technology
A Senate committee last week quickly passed a bill that would require any encryption product purchased by the federal government or with federal funds for use in securing government networks be based on the controversial keyrecovery technology. Without holding any hearings the Senate Commerce Scie
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GovNews forum grows;NASA site gets face lift
The National Science Foundation has revamped its International GovNews project to make it possible for anyone with World Wide Web access to read and post information to more than 200 government newsgroups. GovNews is a project that through the Internet Usenet broadcast platform creates a twoway me
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NASA to purchase data from private-sector satellites
In a sharp break from its traditional method of using its own satellites to collect data on the universe NASA plans to purchase scientific data from the commercial sector. NASA's Stennis Space Center last month issued a request for offers to purchase weather and climate data gathered by privatesec
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Agriculture hit by hacker attack
The Agriculture Department's Foreign Agricultural Service last week fell victim to a new computer attack which was planted by an unauthorized user taking control of the agency's system. A hacker broke into the service's system on June 9 and began sending out a deluge of messages to an undetermined
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Bureaus ferret out stats; FEMA tracks storms
The Commerce and Labor departments have launched a joint Web page that features a search tool to let users access and manipulate large demographic and economic data sets. Point your browser to ferret.bls.census.gov/cgibin/ferret to access the Federal Electronic Research and Review Extraction Tool
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HP unveils server storage systemAs part of a new push into the data center environment with its 'Wintel' product line HewlettPackard Co. this week is unveiling a highend network server and a highdensity storage system. The NetServer LXr Pro based on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT comes with up to
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Concerns over NGI threaten funding
Congress may balk at funding the Clinton administration's $100 million Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative because of the concerns of some legislators about the structure of the multipleagency researchproject and the apparent exclusion of rural states from the process. Members of a Senate su
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Panel plans to beef up Computer Security Act
Calling the lack of computer security in the federal government 'a national crisis ' Rep. Constance Morella (RMd.) announced last week that the House Science Committee plans to introduce a bill this month to strengthen the 10yearold Computer Security Act. Designed to establish minimum security s
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Hill probes Mac-PC controversy
The Johnson Space Center's controversial policy to standardize all the center's workstations on a single PC platform has now drawn fire from Congress which is concerned that NASA may have violated fairandopencompetition rules. Last week a group of House members was garnering support for a letter
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Netscape software gains momentum with new deals
Netscape Communications Corp. has secured large orders of its new Communicator browser and SuiteSpot server products in recent months from a bevy of civilian and Defense agencies including the Defense Department's largest agency. More than 17 civilian agencies and three Defense agencies are among 1
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USPS moves to remote-access server
The U.S. Postal Service will use a remoteaccess and security product from a California company to allow more than 7 000 remote users to connect to the agency's intranet. USPS has standardized on the integrated access server developed by Livingston Enterprises Inc. Pleasanton Calif. to allow remote
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NASA orders all e-mail destroyed
NASA has directed its centers to destroy all electronic mail older than 60 days a policy that many say does not conform to National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) regulations and may raise other legal questions. NASA's policy came to light after last week's World Wide Web posting of a M
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Experts pan administration's key-recovery infrastructure
A group of leading cryptographers issued a report sharply criticizing the government's keyrecovery infrastructure as substantially vulnerable to misuse and costly for end users. The report the first analysis of the technical aspects of the Clinton administration's controversial plan to provide law
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NSA expands Fortezza
The National Security Agency has backed off its hardline approach and has expanded the Fortezza card program to cover software and smart card applications in hopes that more federal agencies will consider using the technology. NSA officials who previously had insisted on Fortezza encryption to be
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Pentagon drops super funds on 5 centers
The Defense Department last week announced plans to purchase three new supercomputers and upgrade several other systems under a $43 million effort that will support cuttingedge warfighteroriented research. The DOD HighPerformance Computing Modernization Office tapped five military centers to rec
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Companies unite to head off DOD
In an effort to head off oversight of private networks by the Defense Department a group of bluechip companies is reviewing the security of the networks that form the nation's critical telecommunications backbone. The Information Technology Industry (ITI) council is leading the push to determine w
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Government debates new encryption standard
The federal government will likely ignite a firestorm of technical and political debate as it begins a search to replace the Data Encryption Standard a staple among government users and industry alike. The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced in early January that it was seeking
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White House proposal sparks new debate over public keys
The Clinton administration last week rekindled the debate over whether law enforcement officials should have special access to encrypted data when it circulated draft legislation that the White House contends is needed to promote secure electronic commerce.
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Hacker attacks, other abuse continue to rise
Computer systems abuse from insiders and outsiders plagues federal agencies creating mounting financial losses according to an annual survey released last week. More than 50 percent of the 82 federal agencies surveyed reported that their computer systems were accessed by unauthorized individuals la
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