Aug 10 Black Hat and Defcon Founder Jeff Moss: What Is the 'Hacker Mindset?' By Spencer Michels More than 15,000 computer nerds - hackers, government officials, security company officials and who knows who else - spent a few days in Las Vegas recently for an unusual set of conventions. The subject on everyone's minds was cyber attacks… Continue reading
Aug 10 Watch Governments Battle to Stay Ahead of Threats on Internet, 'The Great Leveler' In the first in a series of reports about cybersecurity, correspondent Spencer Michels reports from Las Vegas on governmental and citizen-led efforts to stop online crime that could threaten critical infrastructure. Continue watching
Aug 09 Watch What Happened to Democrats' Energy, Climate Change Legislation Plans? With the Senate at home for the summer, a clean-energy and climate-change bill appears to be all but dead. For a closer look at what pulled the plug on the legislation, Margaret Warner is joined by environmental writers Darren Samuelsohn… Continue watching
Aug 09 What Killed Obama's Energy Bill Plans? Lawmakers have declared the chances of getting a major energy bill through this Congress all but dead. But the prospects for getting legislation addressing the problems of rising greenhouse gases actually began fading weeks ago. Continue reading
Aug 09 Internet Policy Experts React to Google/Verizon Regulation Proposal Google and Verizon released a joint set of principles for Internet regulation Monday that would enshrine some aspects of net neutrality principles in law, but would largely exempt the wireless Internet from regulation. We asked advocates and opponents of… Continue reading
Aug 09 Google and Verizon: Yes to Net Neutrality, But... The CEOs of Google and Verizon announced a joint set of net neutrality principles Monday that would enshrine in federal law the FCC's ability to regulate the Internet and enforce open access. The document primarily lays out proposed rules… Continue reading
Aug 09 Monday: Drilling to Resume on Oil Relief Well; Aid Group to Stay in Afghanistan After Killings Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Monday that cement forced down the top of BP's blown-out well last week has hardened enough so that workers can begin drilling the final 100 feet of the relief well and seal… Continue reading
Aug 06 In Louisiana, Journalists and Cleanup Crews Bake in the Heat By Tom Bearden If you're not used to it, the heat and humidity along the Gulf Coast can be devastating. I'm not used to it, despite having made eight trips to the Gulf since April 28. I live in Colorado, where the humidity… Continue reading
Aug 05 Would a Google-Verizon Deal Kill Net Neutrality? A report this morning says Google may be close to a deal with Verizon that would give the search giant preferred access on the service provider's networks. That news has open-Internet advocates worried and Web-watchers scratching their heads. The New… Continue reading
Aug 05 BP Begins Cementing Well in Final 'Static Kill' Step Updated 5:07 p.m. ET BP says it has finished pouring cement into the well. "Monitoring of the well is under way in order to confirm the effectiveness of the procedure," the company said in a statement. Updated 1:57 p.m. ET… Continue reading