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Executive Order Aims to Facilitate Sharing of Information on Threats

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President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Tuesday designed to make it easier to disseminate classified information on threats against critical infrastructure systems and to lay the groundwork for obtaining information from the private sector that would help the government protect critical infrastructures in the U.S.

Dave Wreski
Feb 13, 2013

Feds Pile On More Charges Against Anonymous Agitator Barrett Brown

Barrett Brown, a self-proclaimed spokesman for Anonymous, has been hit with new charges by authorities in Texas for concealing evidence.

Anthony Pell
Jan 25, 2013

IMAGiNE BitTorrent Group Sysop Speaks Out as He Heads to Prison

A convicted member of the now-defunct online movie piracy group IMAGiNE has left a public statement before starting his 40-month prison term. Last Friday 53-year-old sysop Gregory Cherwonik of New York was transferred to a detention facility to serve his sentence. In his first public words on the case he criticizes the MPAA and the U.S. Department of Justice, among others.

Anthony Pell
Jan 22, 2013

U.S. Attorney Says Aaron Swartz Prosecution

Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. attorney in Massachusetts, said Thursday the government

Dave Wreski
Jan 18, 2013

Government Unable to Define

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Dave Wreski
Jan 10, 2013

Feds Dismantle Piracy Ring That Stole Super-Expensive Software

A Chinese national was set to plead guilty Monday for his role in a massive $100 million online software piracy scheme that authorities said was

Dave Wreski
Jan 08, 2013

Thai police arrest Algerian hacker on FBI list

Thai police have arrested an Algerian national wanted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for allegedly making tens of millions of dollars from cyber crime, officials said Monday.

Dave Wreski
Jan 08, 2013

Record 5-Year Prison Term Handed to Convicted File Sharer

The leader of the in-theater camcording gang known as the IMAGiNE Group was handed a 60-month prison term Thursday in what is the nation

Dave Wreski
Jan 04, 2013

NASA hacker won't face prosecution in U.K.

Self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon will not now face legal action in the U.K. following a decision by the Crown Prosecution Service, but the U.S. extradition warrant remains open.

Alex
Dec 17, 2012

Feds Charge Anonymous Spokesperson for Sharing Hacked Stratfor Credit Cards

A Dallas grand jury has brought charges against Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown stemming from the 2011 hack of intelligence vendor Stratfor Global Intelligence.

Dave Wreski
Dec 10, 2012

LulzSec hacker faces 30 years to life

Jeremy Hammond is in really big trouble. Or, perhaps, the government is just trying to "scare the (expletive) out of him," in the words of Kevin Mitnick, formerly known as the world's "most-wanted hacker" and now a security consultant.

Dave Wreski
Nov 28, 2012

Hacker found guilty of AT&T data breach

A hacker has been convicted of the AT&T security breach in 2010 in which 120,000 iPad owners' email addresses were leaked. Andrew 'Weev' Auernheimer, 26, has been found guilty in the District Court in New Jersey of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization and fraud in connection with personal information. He'll be sentenced in February, and faces up to five years in prison on each count.

Alex
Nov 21, 2012

Teenage Hacker

The 15-year-old UG Nazi hacker known as Cosmo* or Cosmo the God was sentenced in juvenile court on Wednesday in Long Beach, California. According to Cosmo, he pleaded guilty to multiple felonies in exchange for a probation, encompassing all the charges brought against him, which included charges based on credit card fraud, identity theft, bomb threats, and online impersonation.

Dave Wreski
Nov 12, 2012

Warrantless Eavesdropping Before Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments on whether it should halt a legal challenge to a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans

Dave Wreski
Oct 29, 2012

Hacker Attack Warnings Don

The White House and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce dug in to opposing positions on cybersecurity legislation yesterday as federal officials escalate warnings about hacker threats to the nation.

Anthony Pell
Oct 26, 2012

How the hacker bogeyman is coming to get you

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warns of a "cyber-Pearl Harbor." Pardon my sarong, but we've seen this movie before.

Dave Wreski
Oct 16, 2012

Supreme Court Terminates Warrantless Electronic Spying Case

The Supreme Court closed a 6-year-old chapter Tuesday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Anthony Pell
Oct 10, 2012

A Dark Day for the Philippines as Government Passes Cybercrime Act

The government of the Philippines today has passed the troubling Cybercrime Prevention Act. The Act covers a range of offenses, but

Dave Wreski
Oct 04, 2012

Obama's exec order draft on cybersecurity stirs debate

President Obama's draft of an Executive Order (EO) to implement some of the provisions of the 2012 Cyber Security Act (CSA), which failed in the U.S. Senate earlier this month, has reignited the debate over government's role in cybersecurity.

Anthony Pell
Sep 14, 2012

A leader of hacker group Anonymous arrested in Texas

A self-professed leader of the computer hacker group Anonymous was arrested by authorities in Dallas, officials said on Thursday.

Dave Wreski
Sep 14, 2012

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Navigating Open-Source Security Risks: The Pursuit of Memory Safety in Open-Source Software

German State Abandons Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice

White House Warns: Move to Memory-Safe Languages