Tag: CYBER-TERRORISM

In the 1960s, Vint Cerf and other researchers at DARPA created ARPANET, the precursor to the modern Internet (and the precursor to their insane penchant for acronyms). In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee gave birth to the World Wide Web. In 1998, ICANN was formed to govern and protect the Web. So in 2010, ICANN, realizing that the Internet was under constant threat from hackers, malware and rogue ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/04/14/us-claims-right-to-return-fire-against-cyber-attacks/'; Just a few days removed from President Obama's historic nuclear disarmament agreement with Russia, the Pentagon today struck a decidedly more retaliatory tone in asserting its right to return fire against cyber-attacks aimed at the U.S. -- even if an attacker's identity remains unknown. Lt. ...

In the realm of cyber terrorism, the botnet is a terrible thing. It's a collection of computers hijacked through malicious software that can be used to stage massive attacks, like the ones that shut down networks across Estonia earlier this year. One of the ringleaders in a global 1.3-milliion-computer botnet has been arrested, and surprisingly, he's only 18. The kid, whose name has not been ...