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A new publication that recommends best practices for the next generation of portable biometric acquisition devices--Mobile ID--has been published by the...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA) are cosponsoring the Biometric Consortium Conference 2009 on...
In what may prove to be a major development for scientists in fields ranging from forensics to quantum communications, researchers at the National Institute of...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its final version of a publication that represents a major step toward building a unified...
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...
A DRAFT of NIST Special Publication 500-267, A Profile for IPv6 in the U.S. Government - Version 1.0 (Draft 2), is now available for public comment. This...
WASHINGTON —The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and National Institute of Standards and...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has delivered to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) a draft revision to the 2005 federal...
March 2009 - NIST has drafted an update to the "Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment Guide" (NIST Special Publication 800-81 Rev 1),the key Secure DNS...
January 2009 - The IEEE 802.21 standard was published on January 21, 2009. This is the final realization of a multi-year project to standardize a media...
GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today delivered to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC)...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is establishing a testing program to assure that the U.S. government purchases new computers and...
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...
Most people's experience with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) consists of a quick glance at a photocopied document at the doctor...
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...