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U.K. police arrested six people on Thursday for allegedly running a phishing scam that stole an estimated 1.6 million (US$2.6 million) from victims who had taken out student loans.
A court in Romania has ordered the arrest of a Romanian man accused of Hacking into NASA's servers. Court spokesman Lucian Marian in the northwest city of Cluj says Robert Butyka would be arrested for 29 days as he awaits trial.
It's been a rough week for digital security in the USA, with China accused of hacking satellites and stealing secrets (claims they deny). Now it looks like the United States is planning on better readying itself for electronic threats by bumping up its cyber arsenal, both offensive and defensive.
The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday will begin hearing arguments in a landmark case involving the government's authority to use GPS tracking devices in criminal investigations without first obtaining a court order.
Two civil liberties groups have filed lawsuits asking the U.S. Department of Justice to detail its collection of electronic data and other information under the 10-year-old counterterrorism law, the USA Patriot Act.
President Obama has issued an executive order aimed at better securing data stored by federal agencies. Some industry watchers believe the move is a response to the whistle-blower organization WikiLeaks, which has published information provided by Bradley Manning , a relatively low-level Army intelligence officer who last year downloaded thousands of documents from secure networks and handed them over to WikiLeaks.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has tapped a former energy executive to work with cybersecurity partners across the country on issues that affect the federal government.
Why? Because the level of skill required to crack a Unix-like OS is much higher than that needed for a Microsoft OS. Further, properly configured Unix-like systems are much more robust than Microsoft systems. Were Military forces using properly configured and properly secured Unix or Linux systems we would not see items like these below being reported.
DailyTech reports that federal authorities have been rounding up suspects believed to have been involved with LulzSec and Anonymous' recent criminal activities.
The National Security Agency has submitted its new, label-based data store software to the Apache Software Foundation, in hopes that others will further develop it for use in secure systems.
An alleged member of hacking group LulzSec, 23-year-old Cody Kretsinger, was arrested in Phoenix on Thursday by the FBI. The same day, the bureau arrested a man in San Francisco who's suspected of participating in Anonymous-related attacks, and announced similar charges against a third man, based in Ohio.
The mysterious "toilet bomb case" which has held the city of Baltimore gripped since February has reached its close, as a jury found Duane Gerald Davis Senior not guilty of leaving a fake exploding toilet outside a courthouse.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has proposed amendments to online privacy rules for children that aim to give parents control over what personal information websites may collect from children under 13.
A California man who dug up sensitive information belonging to U.S. service members on peer-to-peer networks, and then used it to order iPods, cameras, and even washing machines from an online store, was sentenced to 75 months in federal prison Thursday.
Anonymous is not so anonymous anymore. The computer hackers, chat-room denizens and young people who make up the loosely affiliated Internet collective have drawn the attention of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal investigators.
Anonymous is not so anonymous anymore. The computer hackers, chat room denizens and young people who comprise the loosely affiliated Internet collective have increasingly turned to questionable tactics, drawing the attention of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal investigators.
Another two men suspected of involvement in attacks by Anonymous and LulzSec have been arrested by British police, bringing the total detained in an extraordinary week to seven.
Hacking group Anonymous claims to have broken into the network of US government contractor Mantech and posted some NATO-related correspondence online.
Anonymous hackers associated with the AntiSec movement have downed at least 70 law enforcement websites. The hackers also managed to extract "massive amounts" of confidential documents, including email spools, usernames, social security numbers, residential addresses, phone numbers, password dumps, classified documents, internal training files and informant lists.
A teenager accused of acting as a spokesman for computer hacking groups that targeted Sony, Rupert Murdoch-owned newspapers and a British crime agency was freed on bail Monday as he awaits trial.
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