A new device that quarantines different portions of a computer network could stop worms and viruses infecting an entire company once they have breached its perimeter defences.
Timothy Thomas lists 18 ways in which terrorists can use internet technologies to further their goals and grow their organization. He concludes that this 'cyberplanning' is "as important a concept as cyberterrorism, and perhaps even more so."
Disruptions from a recent attack on the Internet are shaking popular perceptions that vital national services, including banking operations and 911 centers, are largely immune to such attacks.
The Internet was designed to be so decentralized that it could survive a nuclear attack. But economic considerations are driving today's commercial Net toward a hub-and-spoke configuration, making it more vulnerable to catastrophic failures. A study lays out just how the chips would fall.
Ronald Deibert worries that the increasing use of the global internet infrastructure for surveillance and cyber-warfare threatens its promise for creating a "a single, vibrant global village polity."
Increased Internet centralization along a few telecom backbones makes the Internet more susceptible to disruption, according to an academic study.
Simulated attacks on key internet hubs have shown how vulnerable the worldwide network is to disruption by disaster or terrorist action. If an attack or disaster destroyed the major nodes of the internet, the network itself could begin to unravel, warn the scientists who carried out the simulations.
A terrorist attack or other disaster that destroyed key telecommunications equipment in major cities would disrupt the Internet much like severe storms at airline hubs ties up the nation's air traffic, a new study suggests.
A new report from the U.S. National Research Council finds that the internet was remarkably resistent to the catastrophic damage of the September 11th attacks.
A computer science researcher has come up with a new way of control computer viruses by limiting limit the rate at which a computer can connect to (and infect) new computers.