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Police raids controversial Swedish web host, Pirate Bay site is down
The Pirate Bay’s website is unreachable and has been down for over a day now, prompting speculation that Monday’s police raid of the premises of Stockholm-based …
White House Military Office breached by Chinese hackers
Following the recent confirmation by a senior intelligence officer with the U.S. Cyber Command that the Pentagon systems and networks are constantly under cyber attacks and …
Moving federal mission-critical applications to the cloud
As federal agencies are making cloud progress, the early-adopters that are moving their mission-critical applications to the cloud are realizing cost savings and improved …
Secure smart card reader for government applications
Belkin announced the first USB smart card and common access card (CAC) reader specifically designed for government applications. Offering the broadest range of smart card …
Cyber criminals actively targeting financial institutions, warns FBI
Cyber criminals have been and are actively targeting employees of financial institutions with spam and phishing e-mails, warns the FBI-backed Internet Crime Complaint Center …
Data breaches expose 94 million records in the government sector
An analysis of government breach data shows that the government sector reported 268 incidents of data breaches from January 1, 2009 to May 31, 2012, which exposed more than 94 …
Government warns businesses of cyber crime threat
The government’s spy agency, GCHQ, launched a programme that aims to help business leaders tackle the growing threat of cyber attacks. The program, dubbed Cyber Security …
US Feds shutter three Android app pirate sites
For the first time since it has started the war against illegal sites, the US Department of Justice has swooped on three websites that were engaged in the illegal distribution …
End-to-end desktop virtualization for government organizations
Dell launched its Desktop Virtualization Solutions for Government (DVS-Gov), a secure solution that helps government agencies manage “geographic sprawl” through …
WikiLeaks’ Assange granted asylum in Ecuador
After spending 56 days holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has finally received a favorable answer to his request for political …
Nepalese government websites serving backdoor
Two websites belonging to the Nepalese government have been injected with malicious code that tries to take advantage of a Java vulnerability (CVE-2012-0507) in order to …
Iran government systems to be taken off the Internet for protection
Remember when Iran expressed its intention of setting up a national Internet disconnected from the World Wide Web in order to keep its citizens safe from Western ideas and …