News (8)

  • US government plans cyberalert system

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to announce details of a cyberalert system on Wednesday, two days after a virus called MyDoom spread rapidly across the Internet.

  • US military to use network warfare to break enemy

    The special US cyber attack unit US Air Force Cyber Command will use network warfare such as denial of service and confidential data loss as stage one of a physical attack to soften an enemy's defences, according to a senior US general.

  • FBI calls for hacker help

    The FBI needs help from hackers to fight cybercrime, an agency official said on the first day of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.

  • US reaches Net detente with UN

    The Bush administration and its critics at a United Nations summit in Tunisia have inked a broad agreement on global Internet management that will preclude any dramatic showdown this week.

  • China, US hammer out trade concerns

    The US-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade announced steps toward resolving several commercial issues including the development of a wireless networking security standard and the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

Features and Case Studies (2)

  • Obama win good news for tech

    In Washington and Silicon Valley circles, betting has already begun on who will be the nation's first chief technology officer.

  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

Create an e-mail alert for "government"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
government


Frequency: *
Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

Back to top

Featured