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US Homeland Security lacking'open source' intelligence

09/15/2008  
Relevance: 9.07
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has not met requirements to provide"open source" intelligence--that is, publicly available information--for state and local law enforcement, a new report shows. The House Committee on Homeland Security released a report Friday criticizing the department after interviewing more than 350 state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials about the DHS's open source intelligence efforts.
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Department of Homeland and Security wants master key for DNS

04/03/2007  
Relevance: 8.05
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to have the key to sign the DNS root zone solidly in the hands of the US government. This ultimate master key would then allow authorities to track DNS Security Extensions (DNSSec) all the way back to the servers that represent the name system's root zone on the Internet.[Not Linux related, but definitely of interest to LXer audience— Sander]
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Critical Open Source Software Projects Receive 6,000 Bug Fixes in First Year of Coverity Scan Site

03/28/2007  
Relevance: 5.48
Department of Homeland Security open source hardening project grows to 150 applications and regular scans of 35 million lines of source code
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Is old code automatically good code?

01/25/2007  
Relevance: 5.27
Teaching an old dog new tricks. The"old dog&" in this case is Marcus Ranum, inventor of the proxy firewall and the man who implemented the first commercial firewall product. He’s now the CSO at Tenable Network Security, the company that produces the Nessus security scanner, and author of the book The Myth of Homeland Security.
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The Web Common Alerting Protocol can save lives

08/21/2007  
Relevance: 5.15
The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) is a simple, standardized XML data format used by the United States Department of Homeland Security that can save many lives.
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AstroMenace for Linux OS

02/24/2008  
Relevance: 4.86
AstroMenace is a brilliant 3d scroll-shooter allowing you to feel the adrenalin rush of a fierce space battle against relentless swarms of alien invaders. Immerse into a decisive battle against tons of cunning foes, face the terrifying bosses and protect your homeland throughout 15 diverse levels of the game. The hardcore gameplay of AstroMenace, packed with pure non-stop action, will become a full scale test for your basic instinct of survival.
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Ebx SBC targets M2M, runs Linux

10/19/2006  
Relevance: 4.82
WinSystems is shipping an x86-compatible EBX SBC (single-board computer) that runs Linux and targets M2M (machine-to-machine) connectivity applications. The LBC-GX500 is based on an AMD GX500@1W processor, and targets industrial automation, transportation, test and measurement, petrochemical, MIL/COTS, medical/diagnostic equipment, communication gateways/routers, and homeland security applications.
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DHS gears up for research phase of open source bug hunt

12/09/2006  
Relevance: 4.80
It's been nearly a year since the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the"vulnerability discovery and remediation open source hardening project," a $1.24 million, three-year grant through its research and development arm, the Directorate for Science and Technology. Now, the security project is entering its research phase.
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Coverity Names David Maxwell as Open Source Strategist

01/29/2007  
Relevance: 4.55
s part of a three-year contract awarded by the US Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate under its"Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation Open Source Hardening Project," Coverity currently analyzes over 50 popular open source projects in an effort to better secure the software that powers critical national infrastructure. One of Maxwell's primary responsibilities will be overseeing the ongoing development of the program to include more software packages and to better serve the open source community.
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Open Source Code Contains Security Holes

01/09/2008  
Relevance: 4.40
Open source code, much like its commercial counterpart, tends to contain one security exposure for every 1,000 lines of code, according to a program launched by the Department of Homeland Security to review and tighten up open source code's security. Popular open source projects, such as Samba, the PHP, Perl, and Tcl dynamic languages used to bind together elements of Web sites, and Amanda, the popular open source backup and recovery software running on half a million servers, were all found to have dozens or hundreds of security exposures and quality defects.
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