NASA’s Information Technology Governance, NASA OIG “The decentralized nature of NASA’s operations and its longstanding culture of autonomy hinder the Agency’s ability to implement effective IT governance. The Agency CIO […]
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Abandoned NASA Spinoff Continues To Deliver
150,000 cloud virtual machines will help solve mysteries of the Universe, Ars Technica “OpenStack pools compute, storage, and networking equipment together, allowing all of a data center’s resources to be […]
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NASA is Taking More Servers Offline – With No Explanation
Keith’s note: After a month and a half NTRS is apparently no closer to being online. But the paranoia is spreading. Now, when you go to the NASA Image Exchange, […]
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Stolen Laptop Security Update
NASA Internal Memo: Breach of Personally Identifiable Information Update “As of now, there is no indication that any of the PII on the laptop has been used for fraudulent purposes […]
Posted inISS News
CASIS Does Not Like Macs and Keeps Its Events Semi-Secret (Update)
CASIS Media Advisory: Space, Cancer and Personalized Medicine Conference “A live webcast of the Space, Cancer and Personalized Medicine Conference (8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. EDT) will also be available […]
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Bo Jiang Released Pending Trial
Chinese ex-NASA worker to be released pending trial “At a detention hearing today, U.S. Magistrate Judge Lawrence Leonard ordered Jiang released after a federal prosecutor acknowledged there is no evidence […]
Posted inInternet Policies
NTRS Is Online Again – Sort Of
Keith’s note: If you are outside the NASA firewall and try to access NTRS you still get this notice: “The NASA technical reports server will be unavailable for public access […]
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NASA's CIO is MIA
Keith’s note: You would think that the NASA Chief Information Officer would at least have something to say about all of this IT hysteria. You would think. The CIO blog […]
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NASA Blocks Everyone From Access To Everything on NTRS
NASA Tightens Security In Response To Insider Threat, Information Week “NASA has closed down its technical reports database and imposed tighter restrictions on remote access to its computer systems following […]
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Everyone Is Investigating Everything at NASA
Former Huntsville NASA center boss Robert Lightfoot will lead foreign security probe, Huntsville Times “NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot will lead a new in-house probe of foreign access to NASA […]