{"id":967,"date":"2007-04-04T00:18:37","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T17:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=967"},"modified":"2007-04-04T00:18:37","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T17:18:37","slug":"the-feds-weigh-in-on-windows-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/the-feds-weigh-in-on-windows-security\/","title":{"rendered":"The feds weigh in on Windows security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <strong>Will the White House make a difference in computer security? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The President&#8217;s Office of Management and Budget recently sent out a directive to federal chief information officers to secure their Windows PCs. In what some said could have ripple effects well beyond Washington, the White House sent out a memorandum on March 22 that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/omb\/memoranda\/fy2007\/m07-11.pdf\">instructed all federal agencies<\/a> (PDF) to adopt standard security configurations for Windows XP and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Vista+for+the+masses\/2009-1016_3-6151565.html\" title=\"Vista for the masses -- Friday, Mar 2, 2007\">Windows Vista<\/a> by February 1.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/The+feds+weigh+in+on+Windows+security\/2100-7348_3-6172158.html?tag=alert\">click here\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will the White House make a difference in computer security? The President&#8217;s Office of Management and Budget recently sent out a directive to federal chief information officers to secure their Windows PCs. In what some said could have ripple effects well beyond Washington, the White House sent out a memorandum on March 22 that instructed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,35,29,30,26,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-government","category-scams-and-hoaxes","category-spam","category-spyware","category-viruses","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}