John Petersen doesn't like surprises, but he studies them for a living. The director of the Arlington Institute, a scenario-planning outfit in Virginia, helps the government think about the …
Hack Attack: West Point Cadets Practice a New Kind of Warfare
The cyberattacks hit after sunup. A stream of hostile data packets flooded a Web server. Cadets in camouflage fatigues moved double-time, shouting about mail servers and passwords. Cadet Dan Jeffers …
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TechNet, Audit Firms Team Up On Cybersecurity Best Practices
TechNet, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based group of more 200 CEOs and senior high-tech executives, this week said it is teaming with four major audit firms to define best practices on cybersecurity for senior …
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New attack may draw gov't intervention
Security experts warned Thursday that business executives need to take network protection more seriously before a major cyberattack results in government intervention. Although the Bush administration …
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Cadets Train to Defend Against Cyber Attack
A stream of hostile data packets flooded a Web server. Cadets in camouflage fatigues moved double-time shouting about mail servers and passwords. Cadet Dan Jeffers calmly tracked the action on his …
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Partnership Made to Fight Cyberterrorism
Instead of pursuing strict regulations to guard against cyberterrorism, the federal government and technology industry have decided to jointly develop voluntary standards. Critics say that won't …
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Sandy Berger fans cybersecurity leadership fires
Former national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger says the nation needs to spend more money on cybersecurity. "In general, the money has not flowed as quickly as I would like," Berger said …
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Aussie Court Crackers on Crackers
Lawyers and security firms have condemned a decision by an Australian court to release without punishment a man who admitted to breaking into ISP OptusNet's network. Stephen Craig Dendtler, 22, of …
Cyberattacks With Offline Damage
What's virtual is virtual, and what's real is real. Right? Maybe not. Most experts think of cyberattack as something that will happen in the virtual world, with effects on, say, computer networks or …
Feds Mull IT Disclosure
Momentum is building in Washington to require all public companies to annually report the performance of their IT security initiatives, not just the financial services and health care industries that …