Stories by Dan Verton

Article | 30/11/2004 Google stumbles with new desktop tool
Google wants to help you effectively access the piles of information you store in the documents, e-mail messages, Web pages, and contact lists stuffed...
Article | 1/11/2004 Secret Service busts online organized crime ring
In what it called an "Information Age undercover investigation," the U.S. Secret Service Thursday announced that it has arrested 28 people from eight ...
Article | 5/09/2003 First 9/11 virus emerges
Antivirus researchers late Wednesday discovered what is being described as the first of potentially many "9/11" anniversary viruses spreading on the I...
Article | 1/09/2003 Blaster worm linked to severity of US blackouts
The W32.Blaster worm may have contributed to the cascading effect of the Aug. 14 blackout, government and industry experts revealed this week. On the...
Article | 20/08/2003 US Navy's Intranet crippled by worm outbreak
The U.S. Navy confirmed Tuesday that its multibillion-dollar Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (N/MCI) has been taken off-line by what could be a combined on...
Article | 1/08/2003 EU cybercop: Europe battles insiders-turned-hackers
The security adviser for the European Electronic Crimes Task Force (EECTF) in Milan, Italy, warned this week that Europe is dealing with a growing pro...
Article | 4/02/2003 Columbia, other shuttles have history of tech glitches
Columbia and other space shuttles have a history of computer glitches that have been linked to control systems, including left-wing steering controls,...
Article | 2/12/2002 Database snafu allowed 105 on terror watch list to get visas
The U.S. Department of State granted visas to 105 foreign men whose names appear on terrorism watch lists because of a backlog in a name-checking syst...
Article | 21/11/2002 War with Iraq will mean virus outbreak, hacker says
A Malaysian virus writer who is sympathetic to the cause of the al-Qaeda terrorist group and Iraq and who has been connected to at least five other ma...
Article | 22/10/2002 Navy searching for hundreds of missing computers
At least 595 laptops and desktops belonging to the US Navy's Pacific Command in Hawaii have been potentially lost or compromised, according to an inte...
Article | 9/09/2002 Technology aids hunt for terrorists
Analysts and field operatives from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have stepped up offensive operati...
Article | 7/01/2002 Report warns of al-Qaeda's potential cybercapabilities
An obscure report issued Dec. 21 by the Canadian Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Services raises the specter of a possible ...
Article | 26/10/2001 Attacks, new XP renewing biometrics interest
Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows XP operating system includes several security feature enhancements. But one of the most significant changes, coming amid...
Article | 3/10/2001 EBay users hit by alleged fraud ring
More than half a dozen eBay Inc. users last week alerted the online auction company to an identity theft and a series of fraudulent auctions allegedly...
Article | 12/09/2001 US ATTACK: US infrastructure shaken by terrorist attack
Unprecedented, coordinated terrorist attacks against U.S. economic and military centers of power have immobilized the nation's air traffic and disrupt...

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