Dan Verton

There comes a point when the quest for ubiquitous computing turns into a security nightmare.

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) cybercrime investigators are looking into the theft of militarily significant design documents pertaining to the next generation of reusable space vehicles.

The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) is monitoring a series of low-intensity cyberattacks launched today against U.S. Internet service providers.

A terrorist-sponsored cyberattack against major U.S. networks and businesses is no longer a question of if, but...

President Bush's chief cybersecurity adviser yesterday expanded the administration's concept of corporate responsibility, warning the IT industry that it is no longer acceptable to sell glitch-riddled software, and urged users to stop buying software that they know isn't secure.

The George W. Bush administration plans to convene a panel of government and private-sector labor and legal experts to develop guidelines for subjecting tens of thousands of corporate IT and other employees to background investigations.

When a group of Web vandals hacked into the Web site of USA Today on July 11 and inserted fraudulent news stories, the Internet security community got a taste of just how serious Web page defacements can be.

Government agencies and the private sector should work together to respond to any coordinated physical and cyberattacks against critical infrastructure systems, a report out today said.