A consortium of 23 security research institutions is calling on the government and private companies to put more research and development muscle into cybersecurity. Among other things, the group would like to see more effort put into the development of code vulnerability scanners and technology for scanning individual computers for sources of attacks. The Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P), a group of colleges and U.S. research laboratories, didn’t ask for a specific budget today. But it challenged the U.S. government and private industry to spend money in eight cybersecurity areas it feels are underresearched. Full Story