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The Spanish Ministry of the Interior has expressed its regret that an international crackdown on IT masterminds inside the violent Basque separatist group ETA was dubbed "Operation Linux". Apparently, penguin-loving outfits are complaining that the antiterrorist operation sullies their good name.
Prompted by fallout from the WikiLeaks debacle, the White House Office of Management and Budget has asked all federal agencies and departments handling classified data to shore up efforts to identify untrustworthy and discontented employees.
WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange was granted bail today by a London judge, but prosecutors said they will appeal the decision. In a media-mobbed hearing today, a U.K. judge decided to release Assange on bail of 200,000 pounds, or about $317,000, on the condition that he surrender his passport, wear an electronic tracker, provide a U.K. address, and report to police daily.
NASA released 10 PCs to the public without completely scrubbing information from their hard drives, calling into question how the agency disposes of equipment that's no longer in use, according to a report by a government watchdog agency.
Dutch police arrested a 16-year-old teenager on Wednesday for his involvement in the online attacks against Visa and Mastercard, organized by supporters of WikiLeaks.
It will take several more years for the US government to fully install high-tech systems to block computer intrusions, a drawn-out timeline that enables criminals to become more adept at stealing sensitive data, experts say.
This bumper-sticker headline, borrowed from the sociologist Pauline Bart, speaks beautifully to the latest Wikileaks outpour and the question of what it does and doesn
AN XBOX MODDER has had his trial put on hold as a US District Judge slammed the prosecution's case. It didn't take long for the Vole's console to be hacked and used for innovative applications. It took even less time for the weight of US law to come down on the head of one homebrew Xbox hacker, Matthew Crippen.
The bid by administrators of the world's largest torrent site, The Pirate Bay, to escape time in Swedish prison is at an end. An appeals court delivered a new ruling that is seen as largely unfavorable for the group and guarantees that they will serve prison time, if they stay in Sweden.
After more than five years of hemming and hawing, the FCC appears close to voting on net neutrality, the hotly contested means of overseeing Internet access. The FCC has postponed its Dec. 2 meeting to Dec. 21, prompting speculation the agency is getting its ducks in a row for a vote on the politically polarized issue.
Internet pirates are facing a big heap of new trouble with the U.S. government cracking down more than ever before. Over the past week, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit of the Department of Homeland Security seized more than 70 websites in a new crackdown on internet piracy.
The US believes that Chinese authorities orchestrated a hacking campaign into computers of Google and Western governments, according to leaked documents cited Sunday by The New York Times.
Officials from the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Homeland Security (DHS) this week warned that the prospect of a cyber attack remains imminent even as their agencies continue to monitor threats to U.S. critical infrastructure.
Chris Soghoian is an unlikely federal official. In 2006 he built a tool that let you print fake boarding passes for Northwest Airlines ( NWA - news - people ) to highlight a TSA security flaw. Unamused, the FBI raided his house (he was never charged with a crime).
News reports suggesting U.S. President Barack Obama's administration is planning to appoint a new privacy watchdog and push for new privacy laws met with mixed reaction Friday, with some critics questioning whether new laws are needed.
Two top intelligence officials last week warned that tech-savvy terrorists are using the Web to recruit for, plan, facilitate, and even accelerate their criminal acts. Their comments set the stage for what's likely to become a heated national debate over wiretapping the Internet.
A Canadian man has been ordered to pay Facebook $1bn Canadian for a barrage of more than four million penis-enlargement ads he posted on user walls in 2008.
A UK court sentenced a 19 year old to four months in prison because he refused to give authorities the password for an encrypted file on his PC. Oliver Drage, 19, of Liverpool was arrested in May 2009 by police who had seized his computer in connection with an investigation into child sexual exploitation.
In 2007, the UK government admitted that its revenue and customs department lost the details of 25 million individuals (nearly 40% of the population). The incident caused a public outrage and the British prime minister was forced to apologise to the nation.
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