Monthly Archives: October 2011

The Department of Energy’s non-classified IT systems have recently come under successful cyberattacks at least four times, costing the department more than $2 million, the DoE inspector general said in an audit made public Monday. The report, part of the … Continue reading →

A sophisticated cyberattack has shut down Internet and e-mail services at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, an Energy Department facility that conducts IT security research. An Energy Department spokesman was unavailable for comment, but a posting on Twitter by the … Continue reading →

As computers, databases and networks come to intermediate almost every aspect of modern human life, the volume of electronic breadcrumbs generated from our daily activities and transactions has exploded. Academic researchers, marketers, governments, and social scientists are all clamoring to … Continue reading →

At first glance it seems like a fairly routine military tech project: DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is developing a miniature unmanned air vehicle that can be carried into the field in a rucksack and sent out to … Continue reading →

Love the idea of the US being patrolled by the same type of pilot-less drones that keep accidentally attacking innocent people in Afghanistan? Then you should reaally appreciate this story… A virus has infected America’s drone fleet, Wired’s Noah Shachtman … Continue reading →

Both the U.S. government and the country’s internet service providers (ISP) agree that botnets are among the greatest threats facing Web users. But they can’t yet agree on what to do about it, because the ISPs aren’t exactly the biggest … Continue reading →