WSJ free feature today: In Search of Presidential Earmarks Pork, a Capitol Hill Staple, Also Is White House Custom, But Much Tougher to Track. CRS report referenced in the WSJ article, via FAS: Earmarks in Appropriation Acts: FY1994, FY1996, FY1998, FY2000, FY2002, FY2004, FY2005, January 26, 2006. And see this February 15, 2005 article on… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2006
Security Issues Escalate With Popularity of Handheld Devices
New York Times: Too Many New Gadgets, Too Much Information at Risk: Loss, theft and viruses are major issues as corporate use of handheld devices and pocket PCs increases. Pre-emptive security options are available however, as this article describes. Continue Reading
Gov. Docs. Available to the Public Reclassified and Access Denied
National Security Archive press release: “The CIA and other federal agencies have secretly reclassified over 55,000 pages of records taken from the open shelves at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), according to a report published today on the World Wide Web by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. Matthew Aid, author… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com
BMG Music v. Gonzalez, Matt Schruers and Jonathan Band Job Swaps and Library Exchanges, by Katie Thomas Got Competitive Intelligence? Tips, Tools, Techniques for the Savvy Marketer (PPT), by Donna Cavallini and Sabrina I. Pacifici The Government Domain: FirstGov Becomes First in Government Search, by Peggy Garvin E-Discovery Update – by Fios Inc. – Defining… Continue Reading
Free Written Opinions From Some District Courts Now Available Via PACER
Pacer press release: “In the spirit of the E-Government Act of 2002, modifications have been made to the District Court CM/ECF system to provide PACER customers with access to written opinions free of charge. The modifications also allow PACER customers to search for written opinions using a new report that is free of charge. Written… Continue Reading
Report on the Response to Hurricane Katrina
“GPO Access is providing a link to a preprint version of “A Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina” that is hosted on the servers of the Committee. Users should note that this version is not final and is subject to changes… Continue Reading
New OMB IT Policy Documents on Privacy
M-06-06, Sample Privacy Documents for Agency Implementation of Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) 12 (February 17, 2006) Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) 12 – Policies for Federal Agency Websites The sample privacy documents (Word) Continue Reading
FDIC OIG Business Plan
“The Business Plan for the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)…combines the Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2006 through 2011 and Performance Plan for fiscal year 2006….The FDIC OIG is an independent and objective unit established under the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended (IG Act). The OIG’s… Continue Reading
Managing Cybersecurity Resources
Managing Cybersecurity Resources: A Cost-Benefit Analysis “details guidelines for using sound and measurable principles of cost-benefit analysis, as a compliment to gut instinct, to efficiently allocate and manage cybersecurity resources within your organization. Written by two globally acknowledged leaders in the increasingly critical area of cybersecurity (Lawrence A. Gordon and Martin P. Loeb), this comprehensive… Continue Reading
Top Defense and Homeland Security Officials Shun Email
They Havent Got Mail – The Katrina hearings havent only revealed critical information about White House responses to the hurricane. Theyve also uncovered the online secrets of Donald Rumsfeld and Michael Chertoff: “…congressional investigations of government responses to Hurricane Katrina have revealed that two of the nation’s key crisis managers, the secretaries of Defense and… Continue Reading
Study of State Voter Registration Database Security
Press release, Association for Computing Machinery, February 16, 2006: “Citing the danger of voter fraud and disenfranchisement from poorly implemented databases, a committee of experts commissioned by USACM released a report today making almost 100 recommendations to state and local officials charged with creating and managing statewide voter registration databases (VRDs). The report is a… Continue Reading
The Mashup of MSM and Blogs
New York Times: That Which We Call a Blog… Referenced in the article is the recent Technorati posting on how many blogs the site is now tracking. Continue Reading
