Foreign hackers are poised to "severely damage" critical U.S. computer systems through the Internet, President Bush's top cybersecurity adviser warned yesterday. Richard Clarke, a counterterrorism …
eBay patrols for Columbia debris auctions
eBay deleted several items billed as debris from the space shuttle Columbia from the online auction site Saturday, warning that anyone attempting to sell fragments from the doomed shuttle could be …
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Cybersecurity Czar Issues Farewell Warning
U.S. government cybersecurity chief Richard Clarke Friday confirmed plans to quit the post and is bidding farewell with a warning that "sophisticated" hacker attacks could cripple the nation's IT …
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Bush Approves Cybersecurity Strategy
President Bush has approved the White House's long-awaited national cybersecurity strategy, a landmark document intended to guide government and industry efforts to protect the nation's most critical …
Above the Capital, a New Line of Defense
Aboard a UH-60A Black Hawk 100 feet over an ice-capped Potomac River, U.S. Customs Service pilot Bob Wimpy watched over one of the country's most sensitive wedges of airspace. His jet-black, 11-ton …
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The worm that turned: A new approach to hacker hunting
After 23 years as a CIA analyst, having briefed the president and his team on every conceivable threat to national security, Bob Gerber was scared. More scared than he’d been in a long time. Holed up …
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Customs Takes Over Monitoring Local Skies
The U.S. Customs Service has begun dispatching surveillance helicopters and small jets into the skies over Washington to search for possible terrorist attacks, in part to supplement U.S. military …
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U.S. Forces in Gulf Still Draw on Memory of 9/11
"We will never forget" reads a mural of the twin towers of the World Trade Center guarded by a Marine and a sailor painted on a bulkhead in the hangar bay of the USS Nassau. The Nassau is an …
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Pentagon's Sturdy Design Saved Lives, Engineers Find
A "forest of columns" designed to support the Pentagon when it was built 60 years ago saved thousands of people who would otherwise have died when terrorists attacked it with a hijacked airliner on …
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The roots of Afrikaner rage
For some white South Africans, mingling with blacks in urban malls is a welcome change from the racial isolation of the past. Some are simply resigned to this post-apartheid reality, and they merely …