A team at the University of Washington wants to marshal swarms of good computers to neutralize the bad ones. They say their plan would be cheap to implement and could cope with botnets of any size.
A "small, but significant" number of Russian scientists have expressed a willingness to consider working in rogue states, according to a researcher at the U.S. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
A top Russian scientist issued a little-noticed warning last week that impoverished experts from Russia's former biological weapons programs may be up for sale to any terrorist organization willing to pay the price.