Reports that Iranian electronic warfare experts may have succeeded in intercepting and capturing a sophisticated U.S. <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222728/Iran_tricked_U.S._spy_drone_into_landing_in_country_report_says">spy drone</a> was received with some skepticism by security analysts.
The U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel spy drone that was recently captured and displayed by Iranian authorities may have been tricked into landing in that country after being electronically ambushed.
NASA's newest robotic rover has already begun its work although it's only a few weeks into its eight-month-long journey to Mars.
The FBI has denied a request for the release of information regarding its use of Carrier IQ's software, saying that releasing the information could interfere with ongoing law enforcement operations.
TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) introduced a portfolio of managed mobile communications services on Monday called TotalCom for government agencies and businesses.
Security researchers at Symantec today confirmed that exploits of an unpatched Adobe Reader vulnerability targeted defense contractors, among other businesses.
Adobe today confirmed that an unpatched, or zero-day, vulnerability in Adobe Reader is being exploited by criminals.
President Obama this week <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/74042394/Managing-Government-Records-November-28-2011">gave government agencies four months</a> to come up with a plan to improve records management by moving to electronic records management systems "where feasable."
NASA's $2.5 billion robotic rover Curiosity has begun its long journey to Mars on a mission that the space agency hopes will further its understanding of life in the universe.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today said there is nothing to suggest that a recent pump failure at a Springfield, Ill. water utility was caused by a <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222014/Apparent_cyberattack_destroys_pump_at_Ill._water_utility">cyberattack</a> as previously reported by an industrial control systems security expert.
The failure of the Congressional Super Committee to reach a deficit reduction agreement triggers automatic federal spending cuts beginning the next fiscal year, which will likely make a lot of government IT contractors nervous.
Three Republican presidential candidates at Tuesday's CNN-sponsored GOP debate said that cyberattacks pose an emerging national security threat to the United States.
The international competition to build an exascale supercomputer is gaining steam, especially in China and Europe, according to Peter Beckman , a top computer scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.
SEATTLE -- There is almost an obsessive focus at the supercomputing conference here on reaching <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9209918/Obama_sets_126M_for_next_gen_supercomputing">exascale</a> computing, a level of computing power that is roughly 1,000 times more powerful than anything that is running today, in this decade.
Vint Cerf, widely considered one of the fathers of the Internet, said Monday that Internet governance is one of the most critical issues in the high-tech world.