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Security guru: Let's secure the Net
News Streamed video: Richard Clarke on IT managers' responsibility for security Richard Clarke, the special adviser to the president on cybersecurity, told security experts at the RSA Conference 2002 in San Jose that such complacency leaves the Internet...
[February 20, 2002, 9:13]
Clarke joins latest cyberterror debate
News Richard Clarke, the former White House cyber security advisor, has criticised a UK company for using the term "cyberterrorism". In response Clarke, who was a security advisor to four US presidents, said he disliked use of the word "cyberterror" as...
[February 11, 2005, 13:25]
Security comes of age at RSA conference
News Richard Clarke, US cybersecurity guru, on IT managers' responsibility for security Richard Clarke's keynote from the RSA Conference Wed 20 Feb: Richard Clarke, the United States' top adviser on cybersecurity, warns that complacency leaves the...
[February 21, 2002, 10:40]
Experts: Let's squash software bugs
News Schaeffer's comments echoed those of presidential cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke, who spoke last week at the Black Hat Security Briefings in Las Vegas. Clarke told attendees that finding vulnerabilities in buggy software is important, but...
[August 5, 2002, 9:32]
Government must force ISPs to take security seriously
News Richard Clarke, ex-US cybersecurity Czar, intimated a similar line when he claimed service providers should be taking more responsibility when it comes to the rise in the number of distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks - which cripple web...
[December 6, 2004, 15:55]
JPEG committee refutes patent claim
News In a posting on the JPEG site, committee member Richard Clarke said the committee has examined the claim "briefly", and believes the prior art exists in areas where the patent might overlap with the JPEG algorithm.
[July 22, 2002, 10:47]
Ex-cybersecurity czar warns that complacency could lead to disaster
News Richard Clarke has more bad news for IT execs. During his tenure as White House cybersecurity czar, Clarke was frequently criticised for his "sky-is-falling" attitude. Indeed, Clarke claims that the Sobig attack brought down a chunk of sky and that...
[October 24, 2003, 12:30]
30,000 botnets march across the Internet
News Former security advisor to the White House Richard Clarke said the number of zombie networked machines has risen to 15 times greater than last year's figure of 2,000 compromised PCs. The number of botnets has gone in the last year from 2,000 to...
[November 5, 2004, 14:48]
US government mulls an Internet of its own
News The new network dubbed GOVNET, is the brainchild of Richard Clarke, the newly appointed presidential adviser for Cyberspace Security, and will carry data, voice-over-IP and, possibly, video. Planning for this network has been going on for several...
[October 11, 2001, 11:19]
Do we need a second Internet?
News This idea may be ridiculed and is out there.but we need to bifurcate cyberspace: we need to have a secure zone in cyberspace and then we can leave the rest of it as it is today," said Richard Clarke, the National Security Council's national...
[December 11, 2000, 9:33]
White House preps cybersecurity plan
News Prepared by Richard Clarke, President Bush's special advisor for cyberspace security, the draft says changes "will be needed" in key Internet protocols and endorses "trustworthy computing" technologies such as Microsoft's proposed system.
[September 17, 2002, 15:19]
ISPs raise the stakes on DDoS attacks
News Earlier this month Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity advisor to the White House, called for ISPs to do more in protecting their customers. Director of incident response for Cable and Wireless Richard Starnes agreed that customers should pay...
[November 30, 2004, 11:45]
US head of cybersecurity quits to spend more time with his family
News Before Yoran, the United States' top cybersecurity position was held by Howard Schmidt, now the chief security officer at eBay, and before that by Richard Clarke. Clarke is the antiterrorism expert whose book "Against All Enemies" criticised the...
[October 4, 2004, 11:45]
Straight talking on terrorism
News When the second plane hit the World Trade Center on 9/11, Richard Clarke didn't wait around for President Bush to react. Clarke, who now heads up security firm Good Harbour Consulting, has an impressive CV.
[November 12, 2004, 16:00]
Cyberterrorism is a misleading term, says expert
News Richard Clarke, who left the White House after disagreements over 9/11 with the Bush administration, said that the term was distracting people from the real threats of cyberspace. Cyberterrorism' confuses people," said Clarke.
[November 5, 2004, 14:08]
Microsoft ordered to pull 'misleading' security ad
News South Africa's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered the software giant to withdraw what they termed an "unsubstantiated and misleading" print commercial last week following official complaints from freelance journalist Richard Clarke...
[March 24, 2003, 8:29]
News Schmooze: Bert really is evil
News Is this the same cyberspace referred to by Richard Clarke, the US' Cyberspace Security adviser, as the fundamental pillar of our way of life? Clarke was proposing a completely secure, governmental version of the Internet, with virtual armed guards...
[October 12, 2001, 15:26]
Five arrested over phishing fraud
News Former White House cyber security advisors Richard Clarke and Howard Schmidt have called for banks to implement two-factor authentication, such as RSA's SecureID, in a bid to halt phishing attacks. Clarke added that online transactions cost half of...
[December 20, 2004, 14:25]
Black Hat gears up in Las Vegas
News One is from Richard Clarke, President Bush's former special advisor on cyberspace security. Clarke, whose 2002 Black Hat keynote speech stated that software vendors and internet providers must share the blame for malicious software, is now with...
[July 31, 2007, 9:43]
German government warns on Palladium costs
News In contrast to the German reaction to Palladium, US cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke said last week that trusted computing proposals were "a good beginning, but it's not enough. Clarke called on technology companies to ensure that future operating...
[December 10, 2002, 10:00]
