NSA May Be 'Traffic Cop' for U.S. Networks
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The Bush administration is considering making the National Security Agency &#151; famous for eavesdropping and code breaking &#151; its "traffic cop" for ambitious plans to share homeland security information across government computer networks, a senior NSA official says.
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The US Justice Department has said that internet service providers should be allowed to charge for priority traffic.
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If your network boss ordered you to capitalize on the lust that people have for the Internet, you might in desperation whip up something pretty close to âOnline Nation.â
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Military contractors may be concealing data breaches by international cyberspies.
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Lawmakers on House and Senate intelligence committees say that while the National Security Agency has amassed a huge database of Americans&#039; calling records, cooperation with the NSA by telephone companies was not as widespread as USA Today initially reported, the newspaper said Friday.
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In the latest incarnation of traffic reporting, information is being sent using personalized text or voice messages to usersâ cellphones or BlackBerrys, often at no charge.
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The US Interior Department can keep its computers connected to the Internet despite the fact that hackers could manipulate royalty payments owed to American Indians
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At first glance, it might seem like the simple extension of a standard tool in the fight against the bad guys. But in fact, wiretapping Internet phones to monitor criminals and terrorists is
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By Anonymous  HOMELAND SECURITY  What would happen to Internet reliability in the U.S.
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Networks of low-res cameras and sensors could monitor urban environments for diverse data -- traffic flow, pollutants, structural integrity -- online. By the Associated Press.
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Take a peek inside DCSNet, the FBI's nationwide eavesdropping network. It's far more intricately woven into the nation's telecom infrastructure than observers suspected. And it's growing.
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The tool was developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in response to requests from the FBI to provide detail on network activity based on a list of IP addresses related to possible security problems.
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U.S. officials want to see if the same technology that speeds cars through highway tolls and identifies lost pets can unclog border crossings without compromising security.
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Law enforcement has sought to identify some users of the Nmap freeware port scanner, the author says.
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Researchers in the U.S. say they've successfully shown how attackers could compromise a network designed to make it harder to trace Web sites they are viewing.
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As traffic increases, experts say ISPs may start charging by the gigabyte, limiting use of some services and snooping at the data passing through their networks.
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Wiretapping Internet phones to monitor criminals and terrorists is costly and complex, and potentially a big burden on new businesses trying to sell the phone service.