While worms and viruses have yet to threaten loss of life, Rob Fixmer argues that they can be considered terrorist acts. One day, a highly sophisticated worm might throw civilisation into chaos.
While some believe "cyberterrorism" is an overhyped myth, Richard Clarke--the newly appointed special adviser to the president for cybersecurity--is one of the few that fear Net attacks.
FBI security consultant Laura Chappell talks to ZDNet Australia about cyber threats for 2002, how script kiddies and junior hackers can bring down your network, why there is safety in grey hair, and how to train hackers without losing them to the 'dark side'.
Groups of online vandals and hackers are split over how to respond to this week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, with some Internet vigilantes calling for an assault on perceived terrorist sites and others pleading for calm.
Even before the CanSecWest security conference started, unknown hackers had given the hotel's high-speed network a case of the hiccups. By mid-week, the system was laid out flat.
Security expert Bruce Schneier says the danger from cyberterrorism is "overblown."
During the next few years, heightened security will change the Internet, and the office network on which many of you work. In fact, you'll probably see changes first at the office as companies try to "harden" their information assets against a wide variety of threats.
A major cyberterrorism event will occur in 2003, a technology research group predicted on Thursday, one that will disrupt the economy and bring the Internet to its knees for at least a day or two.
Though most corporate security professionals see network protection as critical, they have only made modest gains in securing their companies, according to a report.
Attacks on corporate networks have gone down, but cyber-vandals now have a much larger pool of software vulnerabilities to attack, a report has warned.
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Scott Charney's carreer has taken him from prosecutor in Bronx County to vice chairman of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. Now he's literally looking for trouble as Microsoft's chief security strategist.
Howard Schmidt is convinced that post-Sept. 11, cybersecurity will transform the information technology world--for better or for worse. Do you agree?
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