Poll: Antiterror tech plans are flawed
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U.S. government isn't doing enough with technology to improve homeland security, a CNET News.com-Harris Interactive poll finds.
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You are the weakest link The biggest threats to the security of financial institutions' electronic systems are the mistakes that people make, according to a survey (pdf) of banks' IT security.â¦
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Throughout the European Union, governments are grappling with how to guard against terrorist attacks. Meanwhile, Indian IT services companies have beefed up efforts to protect data.
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Security is a very big and growing tech business. Cumulative private and public sector security spending in the U.S. is forecast to exceed &#36;1 trillion over the coming decade. The punditocracy has analogized this post-Sept. 11 trend to Cold War-era military spending; homeland security will be a short-term economic stimulus but, ultimately, like military spending, a drag on the nation's domestic production.
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DHS huddled masses tracker further delayed The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s plan to build hundreds of all-seeing networked surveillance towers along American borders has run into further problems. The project in question is the technology portion of the Secure Borders Initiative (SBI).â¦
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Airlines and airports remain prime targets for extremists nearly 6 years after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, but the U.S. government has yet to determine whether sweeping security proposals could ever be put into practice.
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Civil liberties and privacy advocacy groups often have the effect of stopping technological innovation when they protest the use of new technologies for domestic security, a technology expert at a Washington, D.C., think tank said Wednesday.
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Republicans and Democrats were for it &#151; and against it. The families of Sept. 11 victims opposed one plan and approved another. The House wanted its bill, the Senate preferred its own. And most Americans didn't seem to care about attempts by Congress to overhaul the U.S. intelligence system.
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DHS wants to build a portable lab to set up at events and transit hubs to test ways to detect terrorists using remote sensors and pyschological techniques.  Will your thoughts be clean enough to board the train? In 27B Stroke 6.
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Making nuclear power plants crash-proof to an airliner attack by terrorists is impracticable, and it's up to the military to avert such an assault
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Whatever the state of homeland security, home computer security is sorely lacking. The nation&#39;s Internet users are confused about computer security, 80 percent of their
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Fragmentation is just one of our enemies The UK government's chief scientific advisor painted a depressing picture of an ever-evolving terror threat that had to be be met with an ever agile investment in science and technology for security.â¦
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While some statistics suggest improvements have been made, others point to disturbing developments--and to the weakest link in the security chain.
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CEOs aren&#39;t doing enough to address the myriad IT security threats that loom large. At least that&#39;s what Ernst &amp; Young concluded from survey results it released today.
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Traditional antivirus technology may be too slow to protect users, researchers say.
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Cost, different standards remain the key challenges in the fight to craft an antispam plan.
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The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI agree that the homemade explosive devices that have wreaked havoc in Iraq pose a rising threat to the United States. But lawmakers and first responders say the Bush administration has been slow to devise a strategy for countering the weapons and has...