The Bush administration has eliminated a panel that brought together top officials from every agency to address security issues. The Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, created by an October …
North Korean Fliers Said to Have Sought Hostages
The North Korean fighter jets that intercepted an unarmed American spy plane over the Sea of Japan last weekend were trying to force the aircraft to land in North Korea and seize its crew, a senior …
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Officials Urge Quick Patch on E-mail Security Hole
The race is on to patch a security hole on millions of e-mail computer servers. The concern: The flaw could be exploited by hackers to potentially disrupt America's infrastructure as war looms with …
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Ruling could threaten long-standing content protections
A controversial case before a federal appeals court could significantly restrict legal protections that have long absolved Internet companies from responsibility for their customers' actions. The …
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Tech Firms, Government Get Friendly Over Sendmail
The U.S. government and the technology industry have passed an important test of whether they can work together to protect the nation's online infrastructure from hackers and other enemies, computer …
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Security Board Swept Out
A new executive order that addresses some reorganization details for the Homeland Security Department completely eliminates the group responsible for overseeing the government's critical …
Bush's Cyberstrategery
The administration's war against a bogus threat. Seemingly innocuous movies occasionally have nasty, unintended consequences. Jaws creator Peter Benchley, for example, believes his tale of underwater …
Security agency's chief outlines emerging role of tech firms
The National Security Agency (NSA) is looking to the technology industry for commercial solutions to monitor millions of pieces of data, as it begins to step from behind its highly secretive walls, …
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Major Internet Vulnerability Discovered in E-mail Protocol
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been working in secret for more than two weeks with the private sector to fix a major Internet vulnerability that could have had disastrous consequences …
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Cyber Plan's Future Bleak
A lack of focus and leadership within the federal government's security community makes it unlikely that many of the initiatives in the recently released National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace will …