U.S. citing security to censor more public records
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government, led by the Pentagon and CIA, censored or withheld for reasons of national security the files that the public requested last year under the Freedom of Information Act...
View ArticleCybersecurity meeting to focus on business
A cybersecurity conference is being held in Baltimore to discuss commercial developments in the field. Gov. Martin O’Malley and retired Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden are scheduled to speak at the...
View ArticleSmithsonian to close galleries due to budget cuts
WASHINGTON — Budget cuts from Congress will soon reduce the number of free exhibitions on view each day at the Smithsonian Institution and will force unpaid leave for U.S. Park Police officers who...
View ArticleDepartment head moves office to Baltimore Detention Center
ANNAPOLIS — The head of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services has moved his office to the Baltimore Detention Center to closely review security after 25 people were...
View ArticleBWI opens new security checkpoint
Travelers will now find a new security checkpoint at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. The new checkpoint and a secure walkway to other concourses opened Tuesday. The...
View ArticleSamsung affiliate, KoolSpan partnering
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> S-1 Corp., of Seoul, South Korea, a mobile security company that is affiliated with Samsung Electronics Co., has signed a multi-year strategic partnership with...
View ArticleSafeNet, Oceus team on 4G LTE security
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> SafeNet Inc., of Belcamp, a provider of Internet security technology, has teamed with Oceus Networks Inc., a Reston, Va.-based broadband provider, to jointly...
View ArticleSurvey finds mobile security lapses
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> Risky applications and business applications are being used side-by-side on employee-owned mobile devices that are used for work, a survey by the Bethesda-based...
View ArticleMedia: No mistaking how NSA story reporter feels
NEW YORK — The man who claimed to leak state secrets on U.S. government eavesdropping sought to break the story through a columnist for a U.K.-based publication who has made no secret of his distaste...
View ArticleSolo practitioners at risk of online piracy
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> Solo practitioners must be as vigilant as partners at the biggest law firms in protecting themselves — and by extension, their clients — against computer hackers...
View ArticleFormer judge admits flaws in secret court overseeing NSA programs
WASHINGTON — A former federal judge who served on a secret court overseeing the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance programs denied Tuesday that the judges act as “rubber stamps.” But James...
View ArticleO’Malley names members of school safety board
ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley has appointed members of a new board to focus on school safety issues. The governor on Monday named five members to the Maryland Center for School Safety Governing...
View ArticleIndustry agrees to new mobile app guidelines
WASHINGTON — Industry groups and privacy advocates on Thursday were near agreement on voluntary guidelines for mobile apps that should make it easier for consumers to know what personal information is...
View ArticleFeds to evaluate Baltimore schools security
Schools in Baltimore are getting federal help assessing security. WBAL-TV reports that the shooting deaths last year at Sandy Hook Elementary School are driving a White House initiative to get the...
View ArticleUnion heartened by response to Md. prison assault
CUMBERLAND — A second prison manager is departing the maximum-security North Branch Correctional Institution after an inmate stabbed a correctional officer there earlier this month and the Maryland...
View ArticleState issues updated rules for reporters
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> Reporters expecting to cover the 2014 General Assembly session will have to submit to a criminal background check, under new rules issued by the governor’s office...
View Article‘Crunch time’ for Obama on NSA
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is still grappling with key decisions on the future of the National Security Agency’s phone collection program and the makeup of the secret court that approved the...
View ArticleFew will benefit immediately from BWI’s new TSA lane
BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport opened a new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Pre-check lane Tuesday, making for two locations in the airport where select passengers can experience the luxury...
View ArticleStates look to rein in government surveillance
Angry over revelations of National Security Agency surveillance and frustrated with what they consider outdated digital privacy laws, state lawmakers around the nation are proposing bills to curtail...
View ArticleMd. lawyer grapples with balance of security, privacy
David Medine was six days into his new job when a figurative bomb dropped on his desk.
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