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The United States and 29 other nations signed a treaty last Friday establishing common tools and rules for fighting Internet crime. On Nov. 23, foreign ministers from the United States, Canada, Japan and South Africa joined their counterparts in 26 other . . .
The case of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, charged with violating copyright law by writing software that strips copy and use restrictions out of Adobe Systems e-books, will be heard in March 2002. The US District Court will hear . . .
The FBI is developing software capable of inserting a computer virus onto a suspect's machine and obtaining encryption keys, a source familiar with the project told MSNBC.com. The software, known as "Magic Lantern," enables agents to read data that had been . . .
Microsoft Corp.'s vulnerability-handling plan is a good start but may end up being insufficient as the specter of government regulation of Internet security looms, according to security experts. As IT security administrators and CIOs were absorbing the details of Microsoft's plan . . .
Brian Krebs and Robert MacMillan, Newsbytes. The House of Representatives today passed a spending bill that contains funding for a raft of cyber-security and online crime-fighting initiatives. The House voted 411-15 to approve the Commerce-Justice-State (CJS) appropriations bill, a 2002 . . .
While Richard Clarke, the nation's chief cybersecurity adviser, is on a mission to foster a partnership between government and the private sector to prevent cyberattacks, Peter Tippett, the vice chairman and chief technologist with TruSecure, is skeptical that a meaningful partnership . . .
The Office of Management and Budget and the federal CIO Council have decided to disband the council's Security, Privacy and Critical Infrastructure Committee to move beyond general issues to the "nitty-gritty details," said Mark Forman, OMB's associate director for information technology . . .
Two-thirds of the federal agencies reviewed got failing security grades for tech security, based on Office of Management and Budget reports and General Accounting Office audits. The U.S. government is giving itself more power to cyber-snoop on citizens and suspected . . .
A House panel last week gave two-thirds of all federal agencies a failing grade for efforts to secure information systems -- a worse showing than last year attributed to greater awareness of security vulnerabilities. Rep. Stephen Horn (R-Calif.), who has graded . . .
As technology companies promote the idea of a national identification card, the president's special adviser on cyber-security said on Wednesday the idea has little support within the Bush administration. Richard Clark said he couldn't name one official who supports the idea . . .
The nation must prepare for the worst-case scenario when it comes to securing the Internet, warned Richard Clarke, President Bush's special advisor on cyberspace security, on Wednesday. "We haven't patched the holes literally or figuratively. We have a system that's vulnerable . . .
Despite dramatically tighter security since the terrorist attacks, a House panel is giving the government failing marks for lax protection of federal computer networks against hackers, terrorists and others.. . .
The computer and Internet industries need to work together to promote better security online, or lawmakers are likely to regulate the Web, a Washington, D.C., lobbyist said at the Trusted Computing conference Wednesday.. . .
Back in the early 1990s, when crashing planes and anthrax in the mail were the stuff of movies or at least far-away places, Richard Clarke was already warning of terrorism on U.S. soil. Attacks on our skyscrapers. Biological warfare in . . .
Agencies across government are speeding up the procurement and implementation of information systems that will assist the homeland security effort. Information sharing is key to homeland security, and almost every White House initiative in this effort includes a directive to find . . .
A $20 billion stimulus package in the works by Senate Democrats may include $1 billion to bankroll an information-technology fund, CNET News.com has learned. As proposed by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., the U.S. Office of Management and Budget would administer . . .
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal challenging Washington state's law against unsolicited commercial e-mail, also known as "spam." The justices will allow a state superior court to hear a lawsuit against an alleged spammer. Without comment, the court . . .
In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Defense Department is developing plans for a "virtual Pentagon" that would enable DOD officials to continue to work even in the event of a large scale attack on the Pentagon, senior . . .
The U.S. Department of Defense is seeking information from technology vendors on how to defend against distributed denial of service attacks, according to a special notice published last week. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Joint Task Force . . .
President Bush signed legislation Friday that expands the ability to tap telephones and track Internet usage in the hunt for terrorists, new powers that drew praise from law enforcement officials and concern from civil libertarians. The bill, known as the USA . . .
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