Report: Fight terrorism with technology
National Academy of Sciences is issuing a new report urging the United States to better exploit its vast scientific resources if it hopes to fight terrorist threats.
National Academy of Sciences is issuing a new report urging the United States to better exploit its vast scientific resources if it hopes to fight terrorist threats.
Forget about viruses. America's real cybersecurity concerns are the notoriously vulnerable computer systems that control our power and water supplies. But here are a few ideas about how to keep the infrastructure safe.
Security experts convened at the Defense Summit to commiserate on the dire straits of cybersecurity, and there was plenty of blame to go around.
In age of cell phone, Net and BlackBerry users, why does government rely on TV, radio to beam emergency alerts?
The good, bad and the ugly
In honor of this week's Great Debate about whether kids should be taught programming, David Gewirtz takes us back almost 40 years, and shows us how his teachers inspired him back in the punch card and paper tape days.
Swiss army wonders out loud whether national telco collaborated with America's National Security Agency to further Echelon surveillance network
People may associate it with the US, but hacking - both legal and illegal - is an international phenomenon. And Britain has its own distinct history of computer exploits
Sixty-seven significant Y2K failures, affecting nuclear plants, stock exchanges
President Barack Obama put $1.2 billion where his mouth has been on green technology.