Results tagged “cyberspace” from Innovations

McCain Campaign Relaunches Networking Site

August 30, 2008 10:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The McCain campaign has certainly learned that it needs a cyber presence to reach out to voters, and has relaunched its McCainSpace with a new design. According to TechCrunch, John McCain hasn't been doing as well as he might hope with the online crowd. On Facebook, he has only 226,000 supporters, as compared to 1.4 million for Barack Obama.

Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com

Tags: cyberspace, Facebook, McCain, TechCrunch

White House Issues Cyber Security Mandate

August 29, 2008 1:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

All federal agencies must adopt new cyber security measures by January, under an ordered issued by the Bush administration. The Washington Post reports that the measures, which are to be applied to all dot-gov domains, are intended to fix vulnerabilities discovered in the domain name system. The fix is intended to prevent cyber crooks from pretending to send messages from an official site. Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com

Tags: cyberspace, federal government, security, Washington Post

Three Ways for Next President to Improve Cybersecurity

August 11, 2008 5:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Both presidential candidates have mentioned the need for security in cyberspace but have tackled few details. Now a columnist at Wired is offering some broad advice on what the next president can do. His suggestions: Use government buying power to require secure machines and software, legislate the results and not the methods to achieve security, and invest broadly in research.

Bruce Schneier writes in his "memo" to the next President: "You have the buying power to get your vendors to make serious security improvements in the products and services they sell to the government, and then we all benefit...."

Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com

Tags: cyberspace, security, Wired