Grant Gross

The SCO Group this week released a Linux server operating system for the 64-bit Intel Corp. Itanium processor, the company announced.

Just as one U.S. senator has started an effort to get rid of the sunset provisions on the counterterrorism USA Patriot Act, passed in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S., a couple of civil liberties groups urged congressional staffers to carefully weigh any expansion of police powers the U.S. government can use on its own citizens.

The head of the science and technology office of the new U.S. Department of Homeland Security has promised to work with other federal agencies and private vendors to develop technologies such as biometrics scanners of fingerprints or eye irises for use at U.S. border crossings.

Two U.S. senators have re-introduced an antispam bill allowing fines of up to US$10 per e-mail to senders of unsolicited e-mail who refuse to stop.

U.S. President George W. Bush's former cybersecurity advisor blasted his old boss' efforts within the federal government, and another expert called for Congress to force companies to pay attention to cybersecurity during a congressional hearing Tuesday.

It's easy to fool e-mail harvesting software, even though the primary source for spammers' e-mail lists are e-mail addresses listed on public Web sites, according to a six-month experiment from the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT).

A U.S. appeals court heard arguments Thursday about whether it should let stand a lower court decision to require Microsoft Corp. to carry a version of Java endorsed by rival Sun Microsystems Inc.

U.S. President George W. Bush's top cybersecurity advisor defended his boss's Internet security agenda but called for help from everyone from large corporations to individual Internet users to protect the U.S. homeland by protecting their own little piece of cyber turf.