According to a new report from the SANS Institute, the number of computer hacking incidents is rising, and the targets of such hacks are increasingly software applications rather than operating systems. The organization found that the number of vulnerabilities reported was up 11 percent from the first quarter of the year to the second, and […]

Two professors at Stanford University are set to unveil software designed to foil phishers by scrambling passwords entered into Web sites. John Mitchell and Dan Boneh developed the software, called PwdHash, to deal with the growing problem of Web sites that lure computer users into disclosing personal information. The software creates a unique password for […]

Computer-security firm TippingPoint has begun a program to pay rewards to individuals who report computer vulnerabilities. Not unlike similar programs from other companies, the TippingPoint deal offers a variable amount of money if a reported bug proves valid. The company will use the information to update its own protection software and will notify the maker […]

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Following recent terrorist attacks on London’s public transit system, the British government announced plans to tighten oversight on people who run Web sites inciting terrorism. In speaking to Parliament on July 20, Home Secretary Charles Clarke acknowledged that the government would have to “tread carefully” around free speech in instituting changes to the national security […]

The Department of Homeland Security’s National Cyber Security division plans a test of the nation’s cybersecurity incident response capabilities with an exercise scheduled for November 2005 called Cyber Storm. The announcement came in written testimony by Acting Director Andy Purdy before a Senate subcommittee earlier this week.
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According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has adequately addressed concerns raised by the GAO over privacy violations in the Secure Flight program. The program is designed to safeguard the nation’s air travel system by identifying suspected terrorists and preventing them from boarding planes. During a test of the program, […]

Officials at the University of Colorado said hackers gained access to two servers at the university, possibly exposing personal information on nearly 43,000 students and employees of the institution. One server, at the College of Architecture, contained data on 900 individuals; the other, at the university’s health center, included information for another 42,000 people. The […]

According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), more than 180 million songs were legally downloaded in the first half of 2005, with Apple’s iTunes the clear leader in the market. Apple recently announced that it had sold 500 million downloads. Subscribers to legal music services reportedly have increased from 1.5 million in […]

Medicare has announced plans to give doctors free software to computerize their medical practices because the lack of electronic records is an obstacle to improving health care. The software is a version of the Vista electronic health record system, which has been used for 20 years by health providers in the Department of Veterans Affairs. […]