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Unprecedented state-sponsored global cyberattack revealed
The news that at least 72 government agencies, corporations and political organizations based all over the world have been targeted (and compromised) for over five years by …
Anonymous hits US government contractor, law enforcement institutions
It has been a busy few days for hacktivist group Anonymous. On Friday they released some 400 MB of documents seemingly belonging to US government contractor Mantech, …
US CERT director resigns
Randy Vickers, the director of the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team, has unexpectedly and rather abruptly resigned his position on Friday. The fact was discovered by …
US demands extradition of UK owner of link site
23-year-old UK citizen Richard O’Dwyer is currently fending off an extradition request by United States authorities. His crime? Setting up and operating a website that …
New French eID card to tackle identity theft
Identity theft is a growing issue in many countries with 80,000 cases per year in France alone, according to the French Interior Ministry. For this reason the French National …
A new approach to circumventing state-level Internet censorship
A group of researchers led by J. Alex Halderman, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, have been working on a new …
U.S. military contractors targeted with malicious PDFs
The last few months have seen a lot of cyber attacks aimed at U.S. military contractors and they are still ongoing. F-Secure researchers have recently spotted an email …
EU data breach notification law under advisement
The recent onslaught of cyber attacks against a variety of companies big and small and the consequent compromises of user information gathered by them has led the European …
Vulnerable firmware could destabilize Internet-enabled technologies
Kill switches and backdoors inserted at the point of manufacture could act as a conduit for organized criminals or foreign states to access internet-enabled devices, according …
Law enforcement supports new U.S. data retention bill
A new proposal for a U.S. federal law that would compel ISPs to retain logs regarding their customers for 18 months is currently being discussed in the House of …
U.S. to consider a new, secure Internet
While Iran thinks about instituting a national Internet in order to minimize the “poisoning” of Iranian minds with Western ideas and culture, the U.S. is toying …
U.S. government-funded labs targeted by cyber attacks
It’s safe to say that successful U.S. companies, government facilities and military contractors are by now to aware that they should always be on the lookout for cyber …