Grant Gross

Linux company Red Hat Inc. will announce Wednesday a new mid-level server operating system in a bid to expand its sales beyond its high-end, enterprise-focused Advanced Server. It also announced the availability of its workstation operating system for 32-bit systems

The U.S. House Homeland Security Committee has created a congressional subcommittee focused on cybersecurity, an action that prompted cheers from the technology industry.

A conference committee made up of U.S. Senate and House negotiators has approved an amendment to a government spending bill that would limit the Department of Defense's ability to use data-mining techniques to check up on U.S. citizens.

President George W. Bush has reportedly directed the U.S. government to develop a policy on waging cyber-warfare, but one security vendor suggested such tactics could backfire.

A U.S. Department of Defense spokesman has never heard of the group that operated AONN.gov, and the U.S. General Services Administration has pulled the site's .gov domain because of questions about the organization's connection to the U.S. government.

Satellite phone service providers are awaiting a ruling from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that would allow them to provide broader coverage to customers and compete in some ways with cellular phones.

The number of security attacks on the Internet seem to be levelling off after a rocket-like rise during the last decade, but the attacks still happening are more sophisticated, said the president and chief operating officer of security vendor Symantec Corp.

The final judge's order requiring Microsoft Corp. to distribute Sun Microsystems Inc.'s version of Java gives Microsoft a deadline of 120 days after Feb. 4 to include Sun's Java with all versions of Windows XP and with all Web browsers that include .Net functionality.