eWEEK EDITORS

Security experts expect a tidal wave of hacker activity once the U.S. military retaliates for last weeks terrorism, although cyberattacks werent launched right after the disaster. No unusual activity or security events were reported by private security monitoring firms and the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University, a nationwide clearinghouse for […]

One of three major network exchange points in the vicinity of the World Trade Center complex lost power and shut down last night. Telehouse International, which runs a network exchange at 25 Broadway, across the street from the famous bull statue on Wall Street, advised customers just after 5 p.m. EST last night that its […]

Search engine sites such as AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, Google, LookSmart and Northern Light Technology were besieged with queries related to the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. Google offered a few statistics emanating from an analysis of what many of its 120 million hits Tuesday – roughly a normal day in terms […]

Verizon Communications is maintaining connectivity at the telephone switching station that supports 80 percent of lines going into the New York Stock Exchange and co-chairman Ivan Seidenberg has pledged to have telephone services to exchanges trading floor on Monday. But unless commercial power is restored to the Broad Street central office, communications in lower Manhattan […]

A small group of companies will announce a big storage happening later this month, focusing on a nationwide IP storage test. Under the code name Promontory, the companies-including Adaptec Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Hitachi Ltd., IBM, Intel Corp., Nishan Systems Inc. and Qwest Communications International Inc.-will announce that about three weeks ago, they successfully tested […]

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 […]