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A New Jersey man will serve a 366-day federal prison term for conducting a cyber attack on Church of Scientology Web sites in January 2008.
The editor of a Kosovo newspaper said Tuesday he suspects that Islamist radicals have attacked the paper's Web site because it was covering the trial of a Kosovar charged in the United States with plotting terrorist acts.
To protect against skimming and eavesdropping attacks, federal and state officials recommend that Americans keep their e-passports tightly shut and store their RFID-tagged passport cards and enhanced driver's licenses in "radio-opaque" sleeves.
A man has pleaded not guilty to participating in a scheme to access online brokerage accounts to jack up stock prices and reap thousands of dollars in illegal profits.
Hackers defaced the home page of the Oregon University System, posting a caustic message telling President Barack Obama to mind his own business and stop talking about the disputed Iranian election.
Italian and U.S. authorities have broken up an international group that hacked into long-distance phone lines and may have provided funds to terrorists in Southeast Asia, officials said Monday.
North Korea runs a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service, a news report said Tuesday.
President-elect Barack Obama should create a new White House office to protect cyberspace from hackers, thieves and foreign agents, coordinating security efforts across U.S. military, intelligence and civilian agencies, according to a new report from a panel of leading government and industry experts.
Internet criminals have been getting more "professional" for years, trying to run their businesses like Big Business to get better and more profitable at selling stolen data online. Now the bad guys of the cyber-underworld are exhibiting other unexpected traits: remarkable patience and restraint in stalking their victims.
Iranian media reports say hackers have shut down the Web sites of several hundred Shiite clerics and seminary schools.
A brokerage firm has agreed to pay a $275,000 fine following a series of alleged online hacking incidents into customer accounts.
The government of Estonia is temporarily hosting the Web sites of Georgia's central bank and Foreign Ministry to try to protect them from cyber attacks, officials said Tuesday.
Federal authorities are calling it the largest hacking and identity theft case yet. But this week's indictments of 11 people who allegedly plundered millions of payment card numbers might not seriously dent the underworld where such crimes occur.
Spanish police have arrested five people suspected of hacking into or outright disabling thousands of Internet pages, some of them run by government agencies in the U.S., Latin America and Asia, authorities said Saturday.
Hackers literally turned out the lights in multiple cities after breaking into electrical utilities and demanding extortion payments before disrupting the power, a senior CIA analyst told utility engineers at a trade conference.
China on Tuesday denied a report that its military had hacked into Pentagon computers, saying the allegations were "groundless" and that Beijing was opposed to cybercrime.
Hackers allegedly hijacked satellite TV signals in southern China to broadcast anti-government messages, news reports said Thursday.
Computer break-ins at the State Department that caused broad disruptions in recent weeks apparently originated in the East Asia-Pacific region, a department spokesman said Wednesday.
CRU Files Betray Climate Alarmists' Funding HypocrisyIt seems that while scientists who accept funding from oil companies are branded as bought-and-paid-for shills, those financed by renewable energy interests remain unchallenged authorities in their fields. Words can't adequately express my astonishment.
Climate Emails Stoke DebateThe scientific community is buzzing over the thousands of emails and documents, posted on the Internet late last week after being hacked from the computer of a prominent climate-change research center, which some say raise ethical questions about a group of scientists who contend …
Breaking News Story: CRU has apparently been hacked – hundreds of files releasedThe details on this are still sketchy, we'll probably never know what went on. But it appears that University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit has been hacked and many many files have been released by the hacker or person unknown.
Hackers target leading climate research unitThe e-mail system of one of the world's leading climate research units has been breached by hackers. E-mails reportedly from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), including personal exchanges, appeared on the internet on Thursday.
Gang jailed for bank virus fraud A group of fraudsters who used a Trojan computer virus to steal £600,000 from bank customers online have been jailed. Southwark Crown Court heard pages with the NatWest logo encouraged victims to tap in passwords and other details and cash was then siphoned off to Ukraine.
Hackers hijack protest signs Photoshop makes it easier than ever to change your words around.Few methods of communication are as straightforward as a protest sign. With a few words and maybe an image or two, you can tell the world exactly what you think about an issue. These days, however, the sign you hold may not say what you think.
New medical evidence could stop hacker Gary McKinnon's extraditionThe home secretary, Alan Johnson, pledged today to examine new medical evidence in the case of the computer hacker Gary McKinnon "very carefully" before approving his extradition to the US on charges of breaking into the Pentagon's military networks.
Mayor labelled as prostituteCity of Copenhagen is working to remove a Wikipedia entry that describes mayor as former prostitute
Ethical Hackers - Network Security Opens New HorizonsThe term "hacker" doesn't just apply to crooks, thieves and anyone else looking to subvert computer security systems for malevolent purposes. Some hackers are in the business of improving security.
How much government control of Web in cybercrisis? - Yahoo! NewsThere's no kill switch for the Internet, no secret on-off button in an Oval Office drawer.
Elance Network Security BlundersElance just suffered its second network security issue, sending thousands of emails containing private information to third parties. Read more: #ixzz0QBUZshYw
New breed of spycams pose threat to privacy - cyber spying boosted by WiFi camerasA FEW YEARS AGO a security expert, enraged at discovering that his PC had been hacked, managed to trace the intruder’s computer and take remote control of it.
Hackers Stole IDs for AttacksRussian hackers hijacked American identities and U.S. software tools and used them in an attack on Georgian government Web sites during the war between Russia and Georgia last year, according to new research to be released Monday by a nonprofit U.S. group.
Mac porn hackers lay booby trapSecurity experts have discovered two new pieces of malware targeting Apple computers, putting paid to the company's claims that Mac users do not have to worry about viruses and security software.
The controversial site "Wikileaks" is known for publishing documents that are otherwise "classified, censored or otherwise opaque to the public record." Wikileaks will publish a document anonymously as long as it has not been published elsewhere.
When is the last time you read one of the columns here or on other Blog Sites that implied armed insurrection was not far from becoming reality? The definitions of "far" vary from months to lifetimes depending on who is doing the posting and some even feel that it is way over-due.
Chinese Hackers Deface Film Festival WebsiteMelbourne is hosting Australia's largest film festival. But the showing of a film about an exiled Uighur leader has prompted Chinese hackers to deface the festival's website.
Anti-theft software could create security hole by AP: Yahoo! TechA whole in the BIOS system could allow someone to take over your computer from another location.
Hacker's 'moral crusade' over UFOA Briton fighting extradition to the US for hacking into top-secret computers claims he was morally justified in breaking the law.
Hacking Oracle's database will soon get easier BOSTON (Reuters) - Hackers will soon gain a powerful new tool for breaking into Oracle Corp's database, the top-selling business software used by companies to store electronic information.
Does Google Know Too Much About You?Many people have a lot of information just sitting there on Google's servers including personal appointments (Calendar), correspondence (Gmail), work and personal documents (Google Docs) and online reading habits (Google Reader).
Could you be hacked like Twitter?The French hacker who broke into Twitter's Google Apps and stole more than 300 private company documents has revealed in detail how he did it. See if you might be vulnerable, too.
Naked Erin Andrews Hotel Tape Being Used to Spread Computer VirusThe tape of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews undressing in her hotel room is being used to spread a computer virus, according to sophos.com. HotelCheck-In poses the question, how private are we in hotel rooms?
MessageLabs: Short URLs in email spam spikesShortened URLs, which allow spammers to hide the real web address from web surfers and are commonly used on social media sites like Twitter where message character length is restricted, began a sharp rise last week and now appear in more than 2 per cent of all spam caught in the …
Hackers Undermine Piracy Evidence With Hadopi Router Yesterday we reported that a provision in the revamped French "3 strikes" bill will allow for the punishment of ISP account holders for the copyright infringing actions of others.
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