Washington is in the process of deploying a statewide system that will provide early warnings about cybersecurity threats to participating organizations and the...Network World From ACM TechNews | March 10, 2011
From malware on Google's Android phones to the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency trying to understand how stories or narratives impact security and...Network World From ACM News | March 4, 2011
Resource Public Key Infrastructure developed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security allows network operators to verify that they have the ability to route traffic...Network World From ACM TechNews | December 23, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are developing RETRO, a system designed to make it easier for organizations to recover from security breaches. ...Network World From ACM TechNews | October 6, 2010
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking to address security threats by launching a new initiative to enable security staff to rapidly detect...Network World From ACM TechNews | August 30, 2010
The U.S. military wants more authority to protect the nation's cyberinfrastructure because it depends on power grids, transportation networks, and financial systems...Network World From ACM TechNews | August 27, 2010
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a method to use a botnet's own technology to defeat it. Network World From ACM TechNews | July 15, 2010
British historians have launched a project to digitize messages intercepted from Germany's Enigma machine during World War II. The encrypted messages were decoded...Network World From ACM TechNews | June 9, 2010
The U.S. Commerce Department and various government agencies are creating an Internet Policy Task Force to examine policy frameworks and ways in which the "challenges...Network World From ACM TechNews | April 29, 2010
The technology for instruments used to see through fog also could be used for optical steganography, according to a team of researchers at Princeton University. ...Network World From ACM TechNews | April 14, 2010
The bidding for a National Electric Sector Cyber Security Organization that would shield the U.S. electrical grid from cyberattacks was officially opened up by...Network World From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2010
Researchers who have tested the security of popular online tax, health, investing, and search sites report that the Web applications are becoming more vulnerable...Network World From ACM TechNews | March 31, 2010
Howard Schmidt, U.S. President Obama's choice for cybersecurity czar, has previously worked in both the public and private security sectors and also has written...Network World From ACM TechNews | December 23, 2009
Countries that want to disrupt other nations' government, banking, and media resources can simply hire cybercriminals to launch botnet attacks, according to new...Network World From ACM TechNews | November 20, 2009
Auburn University researchers have developed a software filter that protects computers against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks without bogging down...Network World From ACM TechNews | October 9, 2009
Domain name abuse continues to be a serious problem, which is too often proliferated by some registrars who are willing to overlook phony registration information...Network World From ACM TechNews | September 15, 2009
Enigma@home is attempting to break one of three original messages generated by the Enigma machine, which was intercepted by the Allies in 1942. The Enigma M4 machine...Network World From ACM TechNews | September 4, 2009
The second draft of a U.S. Senate cybersecurity bill scales back language that would give the president the ability to shut down the Internet in an emergency....Network World From ACM TechNews | September 2, 2009
In the year since security researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered a vulnerability in the domain name system (DNS), which could allow hackers to redirect traffic from...Network World From ACM TechNews | July 28, 2009
High-speed computer networks have the potential to transform the healthcare industry, according to Mike McGill, program director for Internet2's Health Sciences...Network World From ACM TechNews | July 27, 2009