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Most of the federal money made available after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is not going to information technology projects, but technology will play a larger role as agencies determine their homeland security needs during the coming months, industry experts said . . .
A U.S. congressman said Monday that he intended to change a controversial copyright law to allow consumers to override technologies that prevent them from making digital copies of music, movies and software. Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., said he plans to introduce a bill that would eliminate the "anti-circumvention" clause of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a 1998 law that updated copyright laws for the digital era. . . .
A federal judge in New Jersey has ruled that evidence secretly gathered by the FBI to catch an alleged mob loan shark can be used in a trial later this year. US District Judge Nicholas Politan said it was acceptable for . . .
There was a marked decrease in global website defacements in the period after 11 September, according to security watcher mi2g Intelligence Unit. But hacking has now begun to rise again, with 79 overt attacks reported in the first 24 hours of 2002. . . .
President Bush on Wednesday allowed U.S. companies to sell high-speed computers to countries such as Russia, China and India, easing a Cold War-era ban designed to halt the spread of nuclear arms. Computer makers may now export computers capable of complex 3D modeling, fluid dynamics calculations and other advanced applications to Pakistan, Vietnam and other "Tier 3" countries without specific permission from the government.. . .
In a five-page order released Friday, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) claims that 38-year old convicted hacker Kevin Mitnick is not morally fit to be a ham radio operator. "Mr. Mitnick's criminal background raises a substantial and material question of . . .
A new bill introduced this month in the House of Representatives would give judges greater power to apply tough sentences to online criminals. The bill, H.R. 3482 - the Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2001 - was introduced by House . . .
The U.K.'s Computer Software and Services Association (CSSA) has teamed up with the British government to launch a new information-technology security alliance. Known as SAINT, short for the Security Alliance for the Internet and New Technologies, the alliance sees the Department . . .
The California Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from an out-of-state defendant in a DVD-copying software publication case. On August 7, the Court of Appeal in the Sixth Appellate District of California said a lower-court judge was correct in . . .
One of the Internet's founders said Wednesday there were important weaknesses in the Bush administration's plans to build an ultra-secure government network and to encourage companies to make computers safer for consumers. Vinton G. Cerf, widely recognized as a "father of . . .
Sklyarov, 27, had been charged in the first criminal prosecution under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and was arrested after speaking at the DefCon hacking convention in Las Vegas on July 16. All charges have now been dropped, according to a spokesperson for Sklyarov. . . .
An FBI spokesman confirmed Wednesday that the U.S. government is working on a controversial Internet spying technology, code-named "Magic Lantern," which could be used to eavesdrop on computer communications by suspected criminals. "It is a workbench project" that has not . . .
The controversy, rumours and speculation surrounding the FBI's Magic Lantern tool has attracted ridicule from the internet underground. Not only has one virus writer constructed a piece of malware under the same name, but now infamous hacker group the Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) has offered a helping hand to the Feds.. . .
For reasons of national security and national pride, government officials in countries like China, France and Germany are increasingly adopting the free, open-source computer operating system known as Linux.
European Union ministers stuck to a plan on Thursday for a pan-European ban on unsolicited e-mail, fax and text messages, but introduced provisions to ease the restriction in certain circumstances. The proposal is part of broader legislation on protection of communications . . .
To secure the national information infrastructure against future terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush's cyberspace security adviser told an IT gathering Tuesday that the government will take steps toward greater information security, but the industry must do its part, too.. . .
President George W. Bush on Wednesday signed into law the Commerce, State, Justice appropriations bill, a 2002 spending package that contains significant funding for a range of cyber-security and online crime-fighting programs. "At this critical time, when we are mounting . . .
If there was a scorecard for copyright lawsuits, this week it would look like this: entertainment industry 2, free speech zip. On Wednesday, with a pair of federal courts siding with the music and record industry, the Electronic Frontier Foundation lost . . .
A report by Internet statistics outfit Telegeography says that 80% of the Internet traffic emanating from Asia, Africa and South America is routed through the US, which means that an email sent from someone in Grabouw (that's if they have email . . .
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by civil liberties groups who claimed that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was planning to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to keep a Princeton University professor from publishing research on security flaws in music industry anti-piracy software.. . .
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