MPs have warned that government agencies must stop using a range of laws to demand access to records of people's surfing activities if ISPs are not to be forced out of business. In a report on its inquiry into data retention, the All-party...
The lawsuit follows successful class actions against Microsoft in several states, including a $1.1bn award to California consumers. Five state counties and two cities have filed a class action lawsuit against the software giant for using its...
TruSecure will be joined by Betrusted, which, through various acquisitions, has grown to focus on three security segments: public key infrastructure, security consulting services and managed security services such as monitoring firewalls.
The deal differs from that of other US government agencies because it will involve more custom work around security, and because the USAF has taken an agency-wide approach to procuring software and services, said Curt Kolcun, the general manager...
Microsoft will share information about security problems with government agencies as part of its efforts to slow the spread of open source software. Gerri Elliott, corporate vice-president of Microsoft's worldwide public-sector unit, said under the...
Speaking to silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK, FSFE president Georg Greve said unprecedented numbers of Microsoft partner companies from several countries have joined standards organisations and have voted to approve the Office Open XML (OOXML...