Robert Lemos

Wary of the increasing number of online attacks against industrial control systems, the U.S. government has begun a major push to secure the systems used to control and monitor critical infrastructure, such as power, utility and transportation networks.
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Rafael Nuñez-Aponte will soon be going home to Caracas after spending seven months in a U.S. jail for compromising a computer belonging to the Department of Defense, but only if the National Aeronautics and Space Administration decides not to pursue charges against him.
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A three-month-old flaw in a preprocessor function for the open-source intrusion detection system may attract worm writers, but the number of vulnerable systems is likely low, security experts said on Wednesday.
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Security researchers disagree over whether a recently announced flaw in Microsoft Windows will likely become food for an Internet worm.
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The recent arrests of three men in The Netherlands who allegedly controlled a network of more than 100,000 compromised computers will not likely curtail the criminal economy surrounding so-called bot nets, security experts said this week.
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Consumers embarking on a shopping spree may be able to leave their wallets behind in the near future, despite some security and privacy experts’ concerns.
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A federally funded group of voting system experts called on the United States’ Election Assistance Commission, which oversees the nation’s state-run elections, to revamp its recommended process for evaluating the security of electronic voting devices.
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