The U.S. government has asked Internet users and businesses to practice "safe computing" online and promised to bolster its own cyber-defenses in a much- anticipated online security plan released Friday. More than a year in the making, the National Strategy . . .
The U.S. government has asked Internet users and businesses to practice "safe computing" online and promised to bolster its own cyber-defenses in a much- anticipated online security plan released Friday. More than a year in the making, the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace seeks to protect the nation's myriad computer networks from damaging attacks like the "Slammer" virus that knocked out wide swaths of the Internet last month.

The report advocates increased spending on cyber-security research and a greater degree of coordination between high-tech firms and government agencies like the FBI that could track down cyber attacks. But it imposes few new requirements on the private businesses that control 85 percent of the global computer network.

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