Google Asks NSA to Help Secure Its Network

Google is teaming up with the National Security Agency to investigate the recent hack attack against its network in a bid to prevent another assault, according to The Washington Post . The internet search giant is working on an agreement with the controversial agency to determine the attacker’s methods and what Google can do to shore up its network. Sources assured the Post that the deal does not mean the NSA will have access to users’ searches or e-mail communications and accounts. Nor will Google share proprietary data with the agency. But the move is raising concerns among privacy and civil rights advocates. The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a Freedom of Information Act request on Thursday, shortly after the …
|
tj_arl_va_adm (Corp Jobs-ARL) : Reston,VA | BAE Systems | Business Development Director (cybersecurity) | #tweetajob | http://bit.ly/aE8vYA | #jobs.. Updated : 2010-03-12T05:58:06Z | Reply | View Tweet |
|
tj_wsh_dc_adm (Corporate Job-WADC) : Reston,VA | BAE Systems | Business Development Director (cybersecurity) | #tweetajob | http://bit.ly/aE8vYA | #jobs.. Updated : 2010-03-12T05:58:05Z | Reply | View Tweet |
|
tj_arl_va_adm (Corp Jobs-ARL) : Reston,VA | BAE Systems | Business Development Director (cybersecurity) | #tweetajob | http://bit.ly/buQPCh | #jobs.. Updated : 2010-03-12T05:57:41Z | Reply | View Tweet |
|
tj_wsh_dc_adm (Corporate Job-WADC) : Reston,VA | BAE Systems | Business Development Director (cybersecurity) | #tweetajob | http://bit.ly/buQPCh | #jobs.. Updated : 2010-03-12T05:57:40Z | Reply | View Tweet |
|
tigerfinger (Ray Williams) : White House declassifies parts of US cybersecurity plan At the RSA security conference Tuesday, the White House d...http://tld.cc/12257/.. |
-
U.S. Declassifies Part of Secret Cybersecurity Plan
[Security]The Obama administration declassified part of the government’s cybersecurity plan, publishing parts of it that discuss intrusion detection systems for federal computer networks and the government’s role in securing critical infrastructure. The declassified portion of the plan includes information on the deployment of Einstein 2 and Einstein 3...
-
Obama's 'emergency' powers over Internet: Cybersecurity Bill
[Security]It's proposed that the White House should have emergency powers to control the Internet. A bill would give Barack Obama 'cybersecurity' authority to disconnect users and professionally certify IT people. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers get really spun up about it.
-
Obama Makes Plans to Protect U.S. Cyberspace
[Space]President Obama on Friday designated cyber security as a national security priority, announced plans to select a cyber-security coordinator within the White House, and released a 76-page cyberspace action plan.
-
Put NSA in Charge of CyberSecurity Or the Power Grid Gets It
[Security]They're baaaack. Those impish Chinese government cyber-saboteurs we last saw posing as 20-foot high trees to trigger the 2003 northeast power outage are back in an all new adventure, this time in the pages of the Wall Street Journal.
-
Unplug the Internet: No President should have this power
[Tech Industry News]The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 introduced in the Senate would allow the president to shut down private Internet networks. The legislation also calls for the government to have the authority to demand security data from private networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule or policy restricting such access.


























