The Obama administration now wants to convey similarly clear and concise guidance about one of the biggest national security threats in your home and office - the computer.
Think before you click. Know whos on the other side of that instant message. What you say or do in cyberspace stays in cyberspace - for many to see, steal and use against you or your government.
The Internet, said former national intelligence director Michael McConnell, “is the soft underbelly” of the U.S. today. Speaking recently at a new cybersecurity exhibit at the International Spy Museum in Washington, McConnell said the Internet has “introduced - - - - >

Dealers now have until noon on Tuesday to submit the necessary paperwork, after the deadline was pushed back from 8 p.m. EDT Monday. All sales under the program were still scheduled to end Monday evening.
The change came after government computers set up to handle the filings buckled under a flood of dealers trying to send in their sales agreements at the last minute. Under the original plan, those deals that werent submitted on time wouldnt be repaid, leaving many dealers fearful that they would be left on the hook for clunker sales they made.
“The computer system has been down or - - - - >

The European Commission will rule this week on charges that Intel impeded competition and harmed consumers by muscling out Advanced Micro Devices Inc. from the chip market. The penalty could double the record 497 million-euro fine against Microsoft Corp. in 2004 for abusing its monopoly in personal computer operating systems, said Thomas Graf, an antitrust lawyer at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP in Brussels.
“There is a good chance that there could be a record fine for an abuse of dominance case, and that it could - - - - >

Network gear makers QLogic Corp. and Emulex Corp. would be among suppliers with fewer places to sell their products, channeling pricing power to buyers, said Peter Falvey, managing director of investment bank Revolution Partners LLC. IBM is in talks to buy computer-server maker Sun, people with knowledge of the matter have said.
QLogic, Emulex and Mellanox Technologies Ltd., which makes products that help servers communicate, have a combined market value of less than $3 billion and their annual sales are equal to about 1 percent of IBMs. - - - - >

The Airbus A330-300 was cruising at 37,000 feet (11,277 meters) when the computer fed incorrect information to the flight control system, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said yesterday. The aircraft dropped 650 feet within seconds, slamming passengers and crew into the cabin ceiling, before the pilots regained control.
“This appears to be a unique event,” the bureau said, adding Airbus, the world’s largest maker of commercial aircraft, issued a telex late yesterday to airlines that fly A330s and A340s fitted with the same air data computer. The advisory is “aimed at minimizing the risk in the unlikely event of a similar - - - - >