Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge today announced the creation of a U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team to help coordinate international efforts in response to cyberattacks across the Internet. The US-CERT will start out as a partnership between the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division and Carnegie Mellon's CERT Coordination Center, a Defense Department-funded research and development facility affiliated with the university's new Cyber Security Laboratory. "This new center for cybersecurity is a key element to our national strategy...
