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Recommendations for a new set of requirements intended to make future voting systems more "secure, reliable, and easier for all voters to use" have been
Many Web-based services, from shopping to online word processing, allow computer programs to talk to each other and exchange user data across several Web sites
In preparation for the September 2 international voting deadline, the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has supported
Factories have much to gain from wireless technology, such as robot control, RFID tag monitoring, and local-area network (LAN) communications. Wireless systems
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released an improved version of its Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Data Generator, a
"America's Most Wanted" meets Web 2.0 as researchers develop an additional implementation of a data format that allows disparate law enforcement agencies to
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is making available "virtual machine images" of secure configurations of the Microsoft Windows XP and
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released three draft Special Publications (SP) documents for public comment. Revision 1, Wireless
Wartime military patrols and civilian encounters can be especially dangerous if neither group understands the other's language. To help American forces secure
Electricity, power, water, communications, waste treatment—we call the facilities that supply these services our "critical" infrastructures because they truly
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a prototype high-speed quantum key distribution (QKD) system, based on a new
Providing strong security for complex federal information systems is a challenging job. But now there's a new version of a draft guide for assessing the
It was a grainy image of a baby—just 5 centimeters by 5 centimeters—but it turned out to be the well from which satellite imaging, CAT scans, bar codes on
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) yesterday issued a draft profile that will assist federal agencies in developing plans to acquire and
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a revised version of Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems (NIST
If you have done an Internet search, bought anything from a Web site or subscribed to a news alert service, chances are you used a special computer document
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking participants for its upcoming Text Retrieval Conference—TREC 2007. Since 1992, TREC has
Telemedicine, the electronic exchange of medical information, can have a tremendous impact on the accessibility, quality and cost of healthcare. But the
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has posted the results of the NIST 2006 Machine Translation Evaluation (MT-06), part of an ongoing
Heads of federal agencies, chief information officers and any manager who needs a broad overview on information security practices will be interested in a new
Steven M. Bellovin, a pioneer researcher on network security, will be presented with the 2007 National Information Systems Security Award by the National
Established just a little over a year ago, the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) National Vulnerability Database (NVD) now contains
After two years of work, an innovative project using Web-based technologies to speed researcher access to a large body of new scientific data has demonstrated
The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently issued four publications to provide computer security advice on issues ranging from securing Windows