Security Systems Analyze and Respond
SendMail Flaw Tests Homeland Response Process
Boeing and Hughes Illegally Sold Technology to China
Hackers Break into University of Texas System

Security Systems Analyze and Respond

New security systems include video cameras and analytical capabilities that can alert a human when activity captured by the camera is deemed suspicious, according to an article in the New York Times. The Times reports that several versions of such technology were displayed at the Homeland and Global Summit meeting in Washington this week.SendMail Flaw Tests Homeland Response ProcessWired News. The story reports that most security experts considered the government’s response to be a good first step.

The Department of Homeland Security’s new cyberprotection system was put to the test in recent weeks as it handled the revelation that a popular e-mail program was vulnerable to attack, according to a story reported in

Boeing and Hughes Illegally Sold Technology to ChinaLos Angeles Times. The Times reports that the State Department had outlined 123 alleged violations of military export rules.

Boeing and Hughes agreed to pay $32 million to resolve allegations that the companies illegally sold space technology to China in the mid-1990s, according to a story in the

Hackers Break into University of Texas System

Hackers entered the University of Texas database and stole personal information about 55,000 students and employees, according to a story in today’s Washington Post. The Post reports that the database was hacked into from a computer in Austin several times beginning on February 26.