Did The September 11th Attacks Blind Us To A Digital Pearl Harbor?

It was December 8, 2000 – the waning days of the Clinton Administration. Richard Clarke, a member of President Clinton’s National Security Council, was addressing attendees at SafeNet 2000, a conference sponsored by Microsoft Corp. that brought together computer security experts from around the...

Report: U.S. Is Hyping Threat Of Cyber War

A new report suggests that lawmakers, policy wonks and corporations are sensationalizing the risk of cyber attacks far beyond the actual threat. The inflation of cyber security threat, like the inflation of the threat of Communism during the Cold War, or terrorist acts in the wake of the 9/11...

Google Attack Was Tip of the Iceberg

The recent disclosure by Google, Adobe and other companies that their networks had been thoroughly compromised by attackers who may have been after their source code has prompted a tremendous amount of discourse both in the security community and in the general public about the political and...

Will there be a digital Pearl Harbor?

Will there be one major catastrophe, or just smaller disasters? Panelists discuss what security issues we should be watching out for, where the threat might come from, and the difficulties in predicting the unpredictable. Via ZDNet...