Reuters – Each week brings word of another cyber attack on a major U.S. institution, sending law enforcement scrambling and raising new questions about whether it has the ability or resources to track down cyber criminals.
Read MoreReuters – British police arrested a 19-year-old man in England on suspicions that he was linked to cyber attacks on the CIA, Britain’s anti-organized crime agency and Sony Corp.
Read MoreReuters – The Lulz Security group of rogue hackers is threatening to steal classified information from governments, banks and other high-ranking establishments, in what would be an escalation of its cyber attacks.
Read MoreDigital Trends – The Internet has never been a safe place, and since its inception, and introduction to consumers, privacy and security have been a major concern. Of course, now that the average person’s computer skills are many times over what they used to be, that only amplifies the problem. Couple this with the fact that…
Read MoreReuters – Australia’s government unveiled legislation on Wednesday to crack down on cybercrime in the wake of recent cyber attacks on multinational companies and institutions, from Google to the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Senate.
Read MorePC Magazine – DARPA is developing the National Cyber Range to help fight cyber criminals, and it could be online as early as 2012.
Read MorePC Magazine – As part of its combined cyber attack effort with Anonymous, hacker group LulzSec said today that it has successfully targeted the Web site for the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA).
Read MoreReuters – Hackers knocked offline a website run by the British police Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA), which targets organized crime in Britain and overseas.
Read MoreReuters – Even before a loosely organized group of hackers broke into the CIA’s and Senate’s public websites, the White House asked for stiffer sentences for breaking into government and private computer networks.
Read MoreThe Atlantic Wire – News that the “Gay Girl in Damascus” was actually a straight, married white male was only the latest proof that you really can’t trust who anyone says they are on the internet. Even Anthony Weiner, widely considered the least internet privacy savvy figure around, managed to avoid one major pitfall, it…
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