eWEEK EDITORS

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 […]

Most critical network hubs in lower Manhattan switched over to diesel generators when a power outage began Tuesday night. Internet access and some telephone communications may further deteriorate in the metropolitan New York area unless restrictions on the delivery of diesel fuel are lifted. Electricity and gas were disconnected to prevent fire and explosions in […]

Technology companies with offices in the World Trade Center are nervously trying to account for hundreds of employees who have been missing since the landmark towers collapsed yesterday morning. According to published lists and telephone directories, there were about 15 computer or telecom-related companies with offices in the World Trade Center. The list includes prominent […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. –The unprecedented attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon this morning are severely taxing both voice and data networks on the East Coast. Verizon spokesman Harry Mitchell confirmed that his companys network is operational but badly overloaded. “Theres an awful lot of calling going on. We appear to have no disruption […]