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If the shiny new software on your computer or mobile phone runs without crashing, you may have another computer program to thank--a static analyzer. Static...
Creating voting machines that are both trustworthy and easy to use is the goal of the End-to-End Voting Systems Workshop, which should interest anyone concerned...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the final version of an updated publication to help organizations and employees secure...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in partnership with the Department of Defense (DOD), the Intelligence Community (IC), and the...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has delivered to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) a draft revision to the 2005 federal...
GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today delivered to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC)...
A working definition for cloud computing—a new computer technique with potential for achieving significant cost savings and information technology agility—has...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued for public comment a draft publication describing a new method to automate the task of...
Overworked crime scene investigators can take heart at the results of recent tests at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of new...
Ron Ross, senior computer scientist and information security researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been named to the...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Karen Scarfone and Matthew P. Barrett received the 2009 Federal 100 Award. Presented by Federal Computer...
When an employee has so many complex passwords to remember that he keeps them on a sticky note attached to his computer screen, that could be a sign that your...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has opened for public comment detailed new methods for testing future electronic voting systems'...
Highlighting another challenge to the development of quantum computers, theorists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shown that a...
When you type www.irs.gov—or the Web address of your bank or an e-commerce site—into your web browser, you want to be sure that no one is hijacking your request...
Telecommuting has freed many to work far from the confines of the office via laptop, but the price of working while sipping a latte at that sunny café is the...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued for public comment its first major update of Special Publication 800-53, the catalog of...
Thefts of personally identifiable information (PII), such as social security and credit card account numbers, are increasing dramatically. Adding to the...
GAITHERSBURG, Md.—Electronic technologies could be deployed immediately and reliably to augment slower postal mail for distributing ballots to U.S. citizens...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the first-round candidates for its open cryptographic competition to select a new state...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the first conference on an open cryptographic competition to select a new "hash"...
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed software that improves the accuracy of the tracking devices in its...
Facial recognition systems perform some very challenging tasks such as checking an individual's photo against a database of known or suspected criminals. The...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has received a total of 64 submissions for a competition to develop a new cryptographic "hash"...
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) scientists have released an updated technical specification for Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards...