U.S. government officials are taking a recent attack on the Internet's root servers very seriously, partly because it might have been a test shot fired over the Internet?s bow by a group with larger plans, and partly because the incident has sparked a fresh round of speculation about attack strategies that could in fact cripple the Net.
The American Civil Liberties Union issued a report Thursday saying use of face-recognition technology failed miserably in a Tampa, Fla., trial last year. The ACLU says police logs show the system did not identify a single criminal during two months of use and was eventually abandoned by police there.
The FBI is developing software, code-named "Magic Lantern", capable of inserting a computer virus onto a suspect’s machine and obtaining encryption keys.
The world's fastest commercial supercomputer will soon be devoted exclusively to solving the world's most powerful puzzle. A new IBM supercomputer will be made available to companies trying to ask questions of the recently decoded human genome.
European Union nations, and perhaps even the United States, are about to make nearly any form of hacking ? even security research ? illegal by treaty. The possibility scares a group of top European computer security experts gathered in Amsterdam this week so much that one declared, ?It?s the witch hunt of the 21st century.?
Hactivists have announced that they are planning to attack several large biotechnology companies in protest.
Scientists at the Comdex convention discuss the practical implications and future of the current boom in supercomputing.
MSNBC evaluates whether or not information warfare threatens to bring about the 'New Armageddon'.