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Americans support a ban on 'uncrackable' encryption
News Seventy-two percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
[September 18, 2001, 14:57]
Europe stumbles on Echelon spy network
News Privacy experts would like to see limits placed on systems like Echelon, or at least for such spy networks to be made accountable -- a need which has only been strengthened by the terrorist attacks of 11 September and the advent of the...
[March 28, 2002, 17:40]
PC makers ready XP, but optimism fades
News You've got an environment where unemployment looks like it's increasing, the macro-economic picture is getting worse, and the stock market -- even before the terrorist attacks -- was not doing very well," said Niles, in San Francisco.
[September 19, 2001, 15:28]
Hackers face life sentence
News The CSEA had been written before the 11 September terrorist attacks last year, but the events spurred legislators toward Monday evening's near-unanimous vote. A committee report accompanying the legislation predicts: "A terrorist or criminal cyber...
[July 16, 2002, 12:48]
Computer recovery companies go to work
News Disaster-recovery companies such as Comdisco specialise in helping customers prepare for cataclysmic events like floods, fires, earthquakes, wars -- or terrorist attacks. Businesses affected by the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center have...
[September 13, 2001, 12:18]
Privacy expert resigns to focus on security
News I want to work with organizations and the government to help make good decisions on security systems that were installing following" the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, Smith said. The move comes after the Bush administration approved...
[November 1, 2001, 12:09]
Australia won't disclose stance on encryption
News ZDNet previously reported that the question of restricting the use of encryption tools is a matter of serious debate in the US, where officials have been quick to blame the use of cryptography for the surveillance breakdown that failed to detect...
[September 21, 2001, 10:32]
Comdex 2001: Where are all the people?
News But they underestimated the effects of a weak economy and the terrorist attacks of 11 September -- factors that combined to push attendance down to a level unseen since the early 1990s. Technology-focused conferences were already suffering from...
[November 14, 2001, 9:44]
Anthrax panic bumps up Web traffic
News After last month's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, concerned people flooded the Net to communicate with loved ones, read up-to-date news on the attacks, and donate time and money through sites such as the American Red...
[October 22, 2001, 10:00]
Microsoft rejects argument against appeal
News Because of a court-mandated schedule, Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler said, Microsoft had to make the filing Wednesday instead of waiting out of respect for the victims of Tuesday's terrorist attacks in Washington DC and in New York.
[September 13, 2001, 10:43]
US budgets $1bn for homeland security IT
News Alexander is the deputy director of the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA), a recently formed group charged with funding development and research of technology that could help the government thwart and respond to...
[August 1, 2003, 8:50]
Throwing money at technology
News In a June report, the non-profit US National Taxpayers Union estimated that more than half of new homeland security funding since 2001 -- $164bn -- is being spent on programmes unrelated to defence or response to terrorist attacks.
[October 19, 2004, 16:15]
Governments embrace outsourcing
News With the global economic recovery teetering from persistent fears of terrorist attacks and now from the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), businesses yet have to pick up their technology spending for computers, software and...
[May 16, 2003, 10:37]
Disaster recovery: Hard lessons from September 11
News TowerGroup's estimates are based on replacement costs of $52,000 each for the 16,000 trading desks (including turrets and multiple workstations outfitted with multiple flat-screen displays) and $5,000 each for the 34,000 general PC workstations...
[May 19, 2002, 21:51]
Report: Net attacks on businesses down
News Moreover, none of the incidents could be attributed to cyberterrorism, and incursions coming from countries on the US government's Cyber Terrorist Watch List -- which includes countries such as Iran, Indonesia and Pakistan -- accounted for only 1...
[February 4, 2003, 8:18]
FBI investigates Nimda worm
News An FBI representative said the agency was "assessing" the incident, but so far it found no relationship between the online deluge and last week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
[September 19, 2001, 9:22]
Italian hackers: Business or leisure?
News However, it is in line with a trend since last September's terrorist attacks to treat computer crime as a terrorist offence. Italy's Guardia di Finanza, or financial police, last week arrested 14 people around the country, accusing them of...
[August 5, 2002, 12:04]
Palm chief executive quits
News While the economic slowdown persists, and consumer confidence has fallen following the 11 September terrorist attacks, we are encouraged that sell-through has rebounded to levels above that of the summer months," Benhamou said in the statement.
[November 9, 2001, 8:44]
Beyond Fear review
Reviews In other sections of the book, he considers the anti-terrorist measures that have been put in place in airports since the September 11 attacks; national intelligence operations; and more specifically computer-related security issues such as...
[October 27, 2004, 12:00]
How sharing data 'advances privacy'
News You monitor the chatter between al-Qaida cells and between terrorist groups. A terrorist war is an intelligence war; it's not two armies massed in the field to clash with each other. How do you get a handle on preventing further attacks?
[February 27, 2004, 10:35]
