Home Sec in anti-terror plan to control entire web
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'I will remove illegal material from internet' UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has decided to mount a push against cyber terror, in which the internet itself will somehow be modified to prevent people using it for terrorist purposes.â¦
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New survey says growing Web dependence puts Internet in terrorists' bull's-eye.
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... but I am as confident as I am   that the Sun will rise tomorrow that it will be safe from terrorists.   After all, we have the children to think about.    It seems that David Clark, who led the development of  the Internet way back in the '70's - did you know there  even was a '70's? -  wants to     create a whole new Internet that will fix many of the problems the   current Internet is plagued with.  The New Internet's engineers will be  much more careful this time around to make sure it works better than  the first one did.    I'm afraid, though, that the engineers are not the only ones  who will be deciding how our New Internet will work.      If one is able to find any   privacy or anonymity in this New Internet,   it will be because of some undiscovered     security hole, which will be   quickly repaired, rather than any kind of conscious design decision.    Probably one reason they are accepting proposals before rolling it out   is to avoid the sort of accidental security holes that enable pr0n,   peer-to-peer filesharing and   left-wing political activism.
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The British government wants the  Internet industry to help combat militant Islamism on the Web  in the same way it cooperates in fighting sex crime against  children, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said on Thursday.
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Government oversight? What government oversight! Internet overseeing organisation ICANN will become an autonomous body, free from any form of government control, on 1 October 2008, if plans drawn up between it and the US government go according to plan.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Several technology companies will build a system to let the U.S. government share data securely among its various agencies, a goal it has struggled to achieve since the September 2001 terrorist attacks. The aim of the Secure Information Sharing Infrastructure (SISA) project is to create a system that allows data to be shared between the agencies, but in a way that ensures only the people who are authorized to access data are able to do so. Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and EMC will provide commercial, off-the-shelf products, with smaller vendors contributing specific technologies. Cisco will focus on secure networks and data protection, Microsoft on identity management and OSes, and EMC on storage. Also participating are Liquid Machines on content protection, Swan Island Networks on information-sharing architectures and Titus Labs on information labeling and classification. The business alliance between the companies will be managed by Addx. The companies didn't provide a timetable or cost for the system, and government representatives weren't available early Tuesday. A report released in 2004 by the 9/11 Commission, which investigated the terrorist attacks, found that U.S. intelligence agencies had cumbersome information-sharing practices that hampered their ability to counter terrorism. The vendors' Web site gave scenarios of how the SISA system might be used. In one, a law enforcement agency raids an apartment and finds documents and financial ledgers in a foreign language. The material could be posted on an information-sharing site to be viewed by an investigator in another country. The companies also gave a general view of how a person would be authenticated and access information from the network. A SISA administrator at a command center will access a user's profile in Microsoft's Active Directory, then establish a VPN (virtual private network) to let the user access the files they are permitted to view. Cisco Security Agent governs the user's access to specific resources, such as write capabilities or a USB device, and the contents of e-mails and documents are protected with Liquid Machines and Microsoft's Rights Management Services (RMS). Â
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Also: High security built right into $100 laptop's OS. Read these stories and more from around the Web at News.com Extra.
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The U.S. government has warned U.S. private financial services of an al Qaeda call for a cyber attack against U.S. online stock trading and banking Web sites beginning Friday, officials said.
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British officials proposed sweeping new powers to control and monitor suspected terrorists without charge or trial, including house arrests, electronic tagging and curfews.
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The US Department of Homeland Security is buying an entire town for anti-terror  training, reports say.
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Companies, governments, and individuals are increasingly vulnerable to Internet attacks by terrorists and hackers.
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Al Qaeda is using the Internet and video outlets with growing speed, volume, and sophistication.
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A tool is created that can circumvent government censorship of the web, researchers report.
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The government issued an alert Thursday to U.S. stock market and banking Web sites about a possible Internet attack from a radical Muslim group, but said the threat was unconfirmed and seemed to pose no immediate danger.
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American officials say Al Qaeda has re-established significant control over their once battered worldwide terror network.
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He says effective antiterror measures can't exist without data protection controls.
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US cybersecurity chief&#39;s sudden resignation comes as terrorists increasingly use the Internet as a tool. While Al Qaeda and its affiliates have always used e-mail and the Internet, these electronic tools have