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Two well-known computer security experts pulled down their works from the Internet this week for fear of being prosecuted under 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Along with the threatened lawsuit of Princeton computer-science professor Edward Felten, and the arrest of Russian . . .
India's first police station to exclusively handle cybercrimes such as computer hacking, data damage and Internet fraud will start work in Bangalore on September 15, police said on Friday. The station, which would cover the state of Karnataka, was launched on Thursday, a senior police official told Reuters. . . .
Two men have been arrested and accused of scheming to smuggle military encryption technology to China, the Customs Service said Wednesday. The technology, two devices known as KIV-7HS units, are used to encode classified government communications. "The technology that these individuals . . .
U.S. officials indicted a Russian software programmer and his Moscow-based employer on Tuesday on charges of violating a controversial new U.S. copyright law, signaling the collapse of plea-bargain talks in a case that has sparked international protests.. . .
As Congress Inquires About the Safety of the Government's Computers, one question comes up: Are computer hackers getting the upper hand on the U.S. government? That's what a House subcommittee is investigating at hearings today, as it scrutinizes the government's current . . .
Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to drape a curtain of secrecy around a case involving electronic surveillance of an alleged mobster. Its classified eavesdropping technology is so sensitive, the U.S. government claims, that "national security" will be at risk if . . .
Disclosing material about the "key logger system" the FBI installed on the computer of Nicodemo S. Scarfo Jr. would hurt ongoing investigations of foreign intelligence agents and endanger the lives of U.S. agents, according to court documents filed by the government. . . .
The National Infrastructure Protection Center is slowly improving its ability to provide warnings and analysis on computer security threats, but Congress remains concerned that its greater mission is hurt by a lack of coordination with other agencies and industry. President Clinton . . .
To combat increasingly sophisticated illegal activity, criminal analysts at the FBI will soon be using visual analysis software, which sifts through large amounts of data in various formats to identify links and patterns between seemingly unrelated elements. The FBI last week . . .
Senior officials of the U.S. Commerce Department go before Washington lawmakers Friday as a new government report details that the nation's business secrets are open to computer hackers. A new General Accounting Office (GAO) report says investigators were able to . . .
The National Infrastructure Protection Center is slowly improving its ability to provide warnings and analysis on computer security threats, but Congress is still concerned that its greater mission is hurt by a lack of coordination with other agencies and industry. . . .
He's an unlikely poster child for a movement to change a major U.S. law. But the plight of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, who was arrested last week, is again shining the spotlight on a controversial law designed to expand copyright protections into the digital age.. . .
It's been two months since congressional investigators said that a highly touted FBI Internet center was about as effective as Al Gore's presidential campaign. During a hearing Wednesday, a Senate panel concluded that the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center had made . . .
A legal battle over DVD encryption, currently in appeals court, could shape the future of IT. The parties involved say the ability to innovate and do business in a digital world is at stake. Somewhere inside a vast colonnaded marble courthouse . . .
As had been widely expected, Attorney General John Ashcroft named a chief privacy officer for the Justice Department. Ashcroft announced July 24 that associate deputy attorney general Dan Collins will advise senior department officials on privacy issues. Ashcroft listed several specific . . .
Hundreds of hackers, programmers and system administrators decamped from their cubicles on Monday and took to the streets to argue, in dozens of different ways, that Dmitry Sklyarov should not be in jail for creating code-breaking software. Some geekavists, who turned . . .
The Justice Department is creating 10 specialized prosecutorial units that will be dedicated to fighting cybercrime. The new teams will be called Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIP) units and will focus on high-technology crimes including computer intrusions and hackings; theft . . .
The White House Web site has been moved onto a Linux platform after its administrators managed to successfully side step an attack by the Code Red worm. Netcraft reports that Whitehouse.gov is now being hosted by peering firm AboveNet and . . .
Adobe Systems Incorporated and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today jointly recommend the release of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov from federal custody. Adobe is also withdrawing its support for the criminal complaint against Dmitry Sklyarov. . . .
Governments around the world are responding to consumer concerns about the confidentiality of their personal information that is being stored or transmitted by companies. By enacting strict privacy legislation, such as laws that guarantee confidentiality of health insurance records, governments intend . . .
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