News

Conference attendees may find helpful these various columns, papers, interviews, and web sites on cyber security. Got a link to contribute? Please contact: Jake Wachman.

• Universities win funding to model cyberterrorism (10/17/03) ZDNet UK

• No More Weekly Microsoft Patches (10/9/03) Internet Weekly

• The US Department of Homeland Security is teaming up with the CERT Coordination Center to create an organization to fight cyberbugs. The new US-CERT group is expected to focus on giving companies, digital security groups, federal agencies and others a venue for sharing critical information
  about security issues.

  http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5076745.html
  http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/6779687.htm

• Members of the computing industry and law enforcement testified before the
  technology subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Reform on September 10, 2003 about how to protect the nation's computing systems from viruses and worms. For the Wired News story, click here.

• Digital Vandalism Spurs a Call for Oversight (9/1/03) NY Times

• Cybersecurity laws affecting businesses on the way (7/10/03) by Grant Gross for InfoWorld

• Panel chair will push for cybersecurity standards in private sector (7/10/03) by Ted Leventhal at GovExec.com

• Putnam: Cybersecurity laws coming (7/10/03) by William Jackson at GCN.com

• Dissertation Could Be Security Threat (7/8/03) by Laura Blumenfeld for the Washington Post

Resources

• Analysis of an Electronic Voting System (2003) by Tadayoshi Kohno, Adam Stubblefield, Aviel D. Rubin and Dan Wallach

• Computer Security Publications: Information Economics, Shifting Liability and the First Amendment (2002)  by Ethan Preston and John Lofton in the Whittier Law Review

• The Cryptorights Highfire Project

• Economics and Security Resource Page by Ross Anderson at the University of Cambridge
  

• Guidelines for Security Vulnerability Reporting and Response (7/28/03) Organization for Internet Safety

• National Institute of Standards and Technology Computer Resource Center

• Vulnerability disclosure publications and discussion tracking page at University of Oulu