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...December, Commerce Secretary William Daley urged the President and Congress to create a national cyber-security center, in which private firms could exchange information on Internet security threats and strategize to prevent them. Following last week's spate of attacks against major web sites, it's an idea whose time has come - President Clinton endorsed the proposal Tuesday and asked Congress to rubber-stamp $9 million in funding. The creation of the center is an acknowledgment that the federal government is going to act more as jailkeeper than patrolman in policing the Internet. The major leads in the case...
...When a spate of e-vandalism disrupted several major Internet sites late last week, all eyes were on the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), which was created last year to guard against such attacks. And over the weekend the NIPC announced that it already had a lead - a 20-year-old German college student/cyberpunk called Mixter was believed to be behind one of the three "smurf" attacks that caused the disruptions. Yet it wasn't so much the work of NIPC that led law-enforcement to Mixter as the efforts of a band of private cyber-detectives...
...those bundled-up northeasterners suffering from frostbitten noses: Get used to it, there could be decades more of winters just like this. NASA scientists believe the recent spate of unusual North American weather - from last year's droughts and hurricanes up through the current manic hot-and-cold spells in the northeast U.S. - will be with us for the next 20 to 30 years, due to a condition known as Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). Some researchers believe that two years ago we began entering the cool portion of a cycle in which the Pacific Ocean waters alternate between warm...
...vessel may have accidentally been guided by NASA to a touchdown in a canyon, where it broke apart on impact. This theory, put forward in the Denver Post by an unnamed Lockheed Martin scientist, has refocused attention on the state of affairs at America's aerospace agency, where a spate of recent high-profile (and high-priced) gaffes has led to declining confidence, with many saying the agency's cost- and time-cutting measures have led to negligence. In fact, the Polar Lander mission was billed as a chance for the agency to regain public favor, and NASA even arranged...
Following a recent spate of homophobic incidents in several Houses and a nationwide increase in reported hate crimes, students and some of the University's most prominent Faculty spoke on this issue during a panel discussion Wednesday night...