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From a posting on Lisnews.com written by Nancy Macomber: “The U.S. Department of Education has decided to shut down the 16 subject-specific ERIC Clearinghouses on December 31, 2003. The Department is running a competition to select a contractor to maintain the database portion of ERIC. This “new” ERIC is expected to begin operating in mid-October …
The GPO Access Training Booklet, July 2003, 73 pages in pdf, is available here. GPO Access is one of the premier e-gov resources, providing access to over 2,900 databases, including the daily editions of the Federal Register and the Congressional Record. This manual’s content, which includes a number of screen shots, covers searching strategies, resources …
Day Three of the W32/SoBig.F virus, which is hitting home users hardest. Counterpane Internet Security has identified 1,500 malicious file attachments associated with the virus, and counting. For more information, see the following links: McAfee Security Virus Profile Symantec Security Response, W32.Sobig.F@mm The virus is apparently set to self destruct after two weeks, making that …
The Department of Justice is hosting what can only be described as a PR website, Preserving Life & Liberty, that promotes the USA PATRIOT Act. The site links to documents that include: major speeches by Attorney General Ashcroft, a list of point/counterpoint statements that are presented using the caption “Myth” vs. “Realty”; a detailed Senate …
Press release from the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, announcing a new report: “State and local homeland security officials the first responders and preventers in the war on terror at home have not yet been fully integrated into the Bush Administrations national strategy on homeland security and continue to operate without critical information …
According to FCW.com, Maya Bernstein is the new “head of the office in charge of agency (IRS) policies for protecting taxpayers’ personal information an increasingly important job as data is handled by more electronic systems in the agency’s modernization.”
A GAO report released August 12 determined that the Executive Office for the U.S. Attorneys has serious security issues associated with the administration of IT systems, with specific concerns detailing the operation of a virtual private network (VPN) linking the 93 U.S. Attorney offices located throughout the US. Information Technology: Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys …
From the CIA press release, the announcement about the availability of The World Factbook 2003: “This reference work provides a snapshot, as of 1 January 2003, of wide-ranging, hard-to-locate information about the background, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. The nine primary information categories and …
From Internetnews.com: “A massive power outage has unexpectedly darkened New York and most of New York state as well as other Northeast American cities including Detroit and Cleveland, as well as Toronto and Ottawa in Canada.” Energy/utility related links on blackouts is available from the IRE Resource Center (thanks to Carolyn Edds, Research Director and …
What Home Pages Tell (And Don’t Tell) About A Candidate. This article provides screen shots and links to 9 candidate sites, and evaluates them based on the following categories: Ease of contributing money, Excitement, Clarity of purpose, Clarity of message, Amount of useful information, and Professionalism.
From the California Voter Foundation, Special Recall Election Resources includes links to the California Secretary of State website, campaign finance sites, recall election news from local, regional and national newspapers, pro and anti-recall organization links, and candidate websites (not all of those who have declared have one!) From The Sacramento Bee, daily news updates from …
From the August 12 Federal Register: Interagency Guidance on Response Programs for Unauthorized Access to Customer Information and Customer Notice: Among other things, the Security Guidelines direct financial institutions to: (1) Identify reasonably foreseeable internal and external threats that could result in unauthorized disclosure, misuse, alteration, or destruction of customer information or customer information systems; …
