A new DARPA program is research new intelligence technology to make it possible for humans and computers to "think together" in real time to "anticipate and preempt terrorist threats," according to official program documents.
Richard Clarke, chairman of the U.S. President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, warns that al-Qaeda's brand of terrorism has a growing cyber element and that the nation's economy is at risk.
A new Pentagon research office has started designing a global computer-surveillance system to give U.S. counterterrorism officials access to personal information in government and commercial databases around the world.
The number of organized hacking syndicates targeting financial institutions around the world is growing at a disturbingly fast rate. And so is the number of banks willing to pay these high-tech extortionists hush money to protect their reputations, according to a security expert at The World Bank.
A little-known exercise, code-named "Black Ice", may hold some of the most important lessons for infrastructure protection in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, according to a key official involved in the exercise.
The Bush administration plans to create a board of senior national security officials to oversee the federal government's critical infrastructure protection efforts, effectively doing away with the idea of designating a single cybersecurity "czar," sources said.
Nationwide rolling blackouts could have a devastating impact on the economy, but experts also fear that the stress being placed on the nation's power grid could make it more susceptible to disruptions from hackers.
As hacker groups in the Middle East threaten to launch a "cyber-Jihad," or electronic holy war, against companies with ties to Israel, security experts said Internet security at most U.S. companies remains woefully inadequate to defend against such attacks.
The absence of a catastrophic cyberattack against the United States has created a false sense of cybersecurity and has allowed costly ColdWar-era Pentagon programs to siphon money from critically needed information technology and security programs, a panel of experts warned last week.
A debate is brewing in the Defense Department about whether the United States should continue to pursue offensive strategies to attack enemies via cyberspace, thereby opening the door to future coordinated and sophisticated attacks by other countries, according to an author of a recently released study.