Cara Garretson

A Baltimore hearing called Tuesday to examine and resolve questions about a proposed settlement between Microsoft Corp. and attorneys representing plaintiffs in a myriad of private lawsuits has instead highlighted protests against the deal and heated up controversy.

National identification cards that hook into one large government database would cause more harm than good, according to most of the panelists who testified at a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee hearing Friday

The telecommunications industry will begin to recover in mid-2003 at best, said Joseph Kraemer, president of the Law and Economics Consulting Group (LECG), during a panel discussion on telecommunications competition hosted by the New Millennium Research Council in Washington, D.C. Thursday.

National identification cards that hook into one large government database would cause more harm than good, according to most of the panelists who testified at a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee hearing earlier this month.

Humans may be the weakest link in securing information systems, according to a panel of experts at a conference organized by Computer Security Institute (CSI), being held in Washington, D.C., this week.

U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday signed into law an antiterrorism measure designed to heighten national security and to temporarily give U.S. law enforcement officials and investigators more provisions for tracking down and detaining suspected terrorists.

The U.S. government should take steps to enable information-sharing regarding cyberattacks and to boost the number of IT security experts in the country, a Symantec Corp. executive told a gathering of press and congressional staffers at the Computer Security Conference and Exhibition held last week.

Expecting an anti-terrorism bill to be signed into law by Friday, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has immediate plans to use the new legislation