The National Science Foundation announced today that the University of California, Berkeley, will lead an ambitious multi-institution center to protect the nation's computer infrastructure from cyberattacks while improving its reliability

A federally funded online absentee voting system scheduled to debut in less than two weeks has security vulnerabilities that could jeopardize voter privacy and allow votes to be altered, according to a report prepared by four prominent researchers.

A three-year, $5.46 million grant from the National Science Foundation will establish a large-scale cybersecurity testbed for the development of new defenses against computer worms and viruses.