Last week FBI Director Robert Mueller called the fight against hackers "the cyber equivalent of cat-and-mouse." On Wednesday security experts trying to take down the Zeus botnet got a taste of what he meant.
The Chinese government is likely behind recent cyberattacks on U.S. government Web sites and on U.S. companies in an apparent effort to quash criticism of the government there, an expert on U.S. and Chinese relations said Wednesday.
The European Parliament demanded Wednesday that the European Commission open up secret negotiations about an anticounterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) to the public.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has loosened controls on the export of Internet-based communication services to Iran, Sudan and Cuba, in an effort to spread free-speech freedoms to those countries, the agency said Monday.
The U.S. Census Bureau needs to consider a major overhaul of how it will count the population 10 years from now, perhaps replacing mailed-in forms with Internet forms, the National Research Council reported last month.
China's IT ministry has not formally talked to Google about its row with the Chinese government, an official said, leaving unclear the status of negotiations after the ministry's head said Google was holding talks with the Chinese government.
Google, Equifax, Verizon and others launched the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) this week to support federal government guidelines for online privacy and security.
