The 2008 Annual Homeless Assessment Report. Authors: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Publication Date: July 2009 (168 pages). Posted Date: March 3, 2010 “The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is pleased to present the 2008 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR), the fourth in a series of reports on homelessness in… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Shadows in the Cloud: Investigating Cyber Espionage 2.0
Information Warfare Monitor: “The Information Warfare Monitor/ (Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto and the SecDev Group, Ottawa) and the Shadowserver Foundation announce the release of Shadows in the Cloud: An investigation into cyber espionage 2.0. The report documents a complex ecosystem of cyber espionage that systematically targeted and compromised computer… Continue Reading
New GAO Report: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Released April 5, 2010: Critical Infrastructure Protection: Update to National Infrastructure Protection Plan Includes Increased Emphasis on Risk Management and Resilience, GAO-10-296, March 05, 2010 “According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), there are thousands of facilities in the United States that if destroyed by a disaster could cause casualties, economic losses, or disruptions… Continue Reading
FTC Issues 2010 Fair Debt Collection Practices Report to Congress
Federal Trade Commission Enforcement of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: The Thirty-Second Annual Report to Congress: Commission Initiatives During 2009 To Curtail Illegal Debt Collection Practices, Including Summaries of the Types of Consumer Complaints Received, Recent Developments in Commission Law Enforcement, and Commission Consumer and Industry Education and Policy Initiatives (March 2010). Continue Reading
Mozilla Metrics Report Q1 2010 – Firefox Worldwide Market Share
Firefox now has about 30% of the browser market on average, with its strongest market in Europe, at 39% according to the Mozilla Metrics Report Q1 2010 Firefox Worldwide Market Share report. Continue Reading
Treasury, OMB Announce New Office to Improve Financial Management across Government
News release: “The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today announced the opening of a new office created to improve and streamline financial management across the U.S. government. The Office of Financial Innovation and Transformation (FIT) will be located in the Treasury Department and will work in collaboration… Continue Reading
DHS OIG: TSA's Preparedness for Mass Transit and Passenger Rail Emergencies
OIG-10-68 – TSA’s Preparedness for Mass Transit and Passenger Rail Emergencies (PDF, 30 pages) “The Transportation Security Administration can better support passenger rail agencies by improving its assessments of emergency preparedness and response capabilities. The agency can also improve its efforts to train passenger rail agencies and first responders, and ensure that drills and exercises… Continue Reading
Technologies and Approaches to Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Technologies and Approaches to Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles evaluates various technologies and methods that could improve the fuel economy of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, such as tractor-trailers, transit buses, and work trucks. The book also recommends approaches that federal agencies could use to regulate these vehicles’ fuel consumption. Currently there… Continue Reading
UN: Shrinking Aral Sea underscores need for urgent action on environment
News release: “Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday witnessed one of the world’s worst environmental disasters as he flew over the shrinking Aral Sea a sight which he said underscores the need for collective action to save the planet’s resources. The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth largest lake, has in recent decades shrunk in… Continue Reading
CRS: Deforestation and Climate Change
Deforestation and Climate Change, Ross W. Gorte, Specialist in Natural Resources Policy, Pervaze A. Sheikh, Specialist in Natural Resources Policy – March 24, 2010 “Efforts to mitigate climate change have focused on reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the atmosphere. Some of these efforts center on reducing CO2 emissions from deforestation, since deforestation releases about… Continue Reading
Administration Releases Surface Transportation Security Priority Assessment
White House – Surface Transportation Security Assessment, March 2010 “Securing the Nations surface transportation network requires a coordinated effort among all levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, communities, and individual citizens. While much has been accomplished to date toward securing this network, a highly focused, collaborative effort is required to identify residual risks… Continue Reading
Gizmodo: How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drives, SSDs and Thumb Drives
Follow up to postings on security issues and erasing hard drive, from Gizmodoa detailed article with accompanying screen shots and product references: “With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the… Continue Reading
