eWEEK EDITORS

USAToday.com Editor Joel Sucherman saw it all: an American Airlines jetliner fly left to right across his field of vision as he commuted to work Tuesday morning. It was highly unusual. The large plane was 20 feet off the ground and a mere 50 to 75 yards from his windshield. Two seconds later and before […]

Federal computer systems remain wide open to malicious attacks and unauthorized entries, a new study from the General Accounting Office said. The report – an annual review – found serious security weaknesses in computers run by the Department of Commerce, the Department of Defense, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of the […]

A leading spokesman of Sun Microsystems Solaris software, Phil Rosenzweig, 47, was on American Airlines Flight 11 that was crashed into the World Trade Center south tower Tuesday, Sept. 11. “This has been a tragic event for our country, and has touched all of us at Sun. Our prayers and thoughts are with Phils family […]

Owners of communications infrastructure including commercial and enterprise networks and data centers should be in a state of heightened alert against potential cyberattacks, say federal authorities. The notice was posted at the FBIs InfraGard Web site, a partnership organization between private companies and government cybercops. The medium-level advisory is meant as information for consideration, said […]

Prominent technology workers who lost their lives in this weeks terrorist attacks: Anna Wilson Allison, 48, president of A2 Software Solutions Myra Aronson, 52, analyst relations manager of software and services provider Compuware Todd Beamer, 32, Oracle sales account manager Graham Berkeley, 37, project manager of software and services provider Compuware Klaus Bothe, 31, executive […]

Large financial firms that lost employees and office space in Tuesdays disaster in New York were able to carry on business from “mirrored” sites and have ordered new copies of information security software that is used to add customers to proprietary data networks. Secure Computing, a San Jose security software firm, said many of its […]

A heightened sense of security, physical damage to the telecommunications infrastructure and conflicting information flowing out of New York together are making the task of running communications networks tough. Afraid to lose any more lives to either acts of terror or accidents, both New York authorities and private companies prefer to err on the side […]

At least four executives of high-technology companies were on airplanes that crashed into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon on Tuesday, Sept. 11. Daniel C. Lewin, 31, co-founder and chief technology officer of Akamai Technologies, was on American Airlines Flight 11, which terrorists flew into the north tower of the World Trade Center. […]

The moment Roy Bell hit the elevator button on the 78th floor of One World Trade Center to go to the 102nd floor, the first plane hit. Little did he know he was about to cheat death several times in the next 90 hair-raising minutes. Sheets of fire shooting out of the elevator shaft enveloped […]

A Web site allegedly hosting Taleban-related information was hacked overnight, crippling the organizations communications and re-opening debate about whether national security concerns outweigh the right to Web-based free speech. A hacker who left an e-mail contact with a Russian Federation domain defaced www.taleban.com, replacing the site with his handle and several obscene messages surrounding a […]

When the nations two largest airlines learned that four of their aircraft had become weapons of terrorists, their online resources faced their most severe test since the arrival of the Internet. American and United Airlines quickly issued and updated press releases on their stripped down sites, While neither the FAA nor the FBI were providing […]

The major broadcast and cable news networks may have delivered the most dramatic images of Tuesdays terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and Pentagon in Washington, D.C., but it was the online news sites that many turned to for more detailed information about events. Unfortunately, those sites were not prepared to […]