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US Homeland Security wants a cyber-nuclear bomb

The US wants to help defend against cyber attacks by embarking on a project that would build the equivalent of an online nuclear bomb. Read more »

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Homeland Security secretary pushes cybersecurity 'Manhattan Project'

At RSA 2008 in San Francisco, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff discusses a new directive focusing on an early warning system to identify cyberattacks before they start. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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