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Second LulzSec Sony Hacker Suspect Arrested

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A second alleged member of LulzSec has been arrested on charges of having hacked the Sony Pictures website last year.

Dave Wreski
Aug 29, 2012

Homeland Security probes SSL flaw in RuggedCom gear securing critical infrastructure

The US Department of Homeland Security is investigating claims that a researcher has found a SSL vulnerability in Siemens

Dave Wreski
Aug 24, 2012

Executives advocate a military approach to cybersecurity

A new study being released by a private Internet security company highlights cyberworld weaknesses when it comes to gathering intelligence on hackers and suggests that businesses take a more military-minded approach to defense.

Dave Wreski
Aug 14, 2012

Hacker Arrested for 2008 DDoS Attacks on Amazon.com

A 25-year-old Russian hacker has been arrested for allegedly orchestrating two DDoS (Denial-of-Service) attacks on Amazon.com and eBay in 2008.

Anthony Pell
Jul 23, 2012

WikiLeaks Wins Icelandic Court Battle Against Visa for Blocking Donations

The Icelandic partner of Visa and MasterCard violated contract laws when it imposed a block against credit card donations to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks, a district court there has ruled.

Dave Wreski
Jul 16, 2012

"God particle" hackers train Indian officials

Two cyber security experts, who claimed to have cracked the security code of IT systems involved in the discovery of 'God Particle', Monday conducted training sessions for Indian government officials.

Alex
Jul 11, 2012

Prosecutors Seek Six-Year Sentence for Celebrity Hacker

Federal prosecutors are seeking a 71-month prison sentence and more than $150,000 in compensation from a hacker who accessed several celebrities' e-mail accounts, including those of Scarlett Johansson and Renee Olstead.

Dave Wreski
Jul 05, 2012

US charges 24 people in massive financial hacking sting

U.S. law enforcement officials on Tuesday said 24 suspected hackers had been arrested on four continents in a sting operation targeting online financial fraud involving stolen credit card and bank information.

Dave Wreski
Jul 05, 2012

LulzSec Members Confess To DDoS Attacks

Four alleged members of the LulzSec hacktivist group had their day in British court Monday. Two of the people charged--Ryan Cleary, 20, and Jake Leslie Davis, 19--appeared at Southwark Crown Court in England to enter guilty pleas against some of the charges against them, including hacking the public-facing websites of the CIA and Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA).

Dave Wreski
Jun 27, 2012

Two Members Of Hacker Group LulzSec Plead Guilty To Cyber Attacks

Two British men accused of taking part in high-profile cyber attacks by hacking group LulzSec in 2011, have pleaded guilty to charges that include conspiring to attack Sony Pictures, FBI affiliate Atlanta Infragard and IT security company HBGary Federal.

Dave Wreski
Jun 25, 2012

Window closing on cybersecurity bill in Congress

Deadline? What deadline? The deadline for the U.S. Senate to vote on some version of a cybersecurity bill seems to be both amorphous and porous.

Anthony Pell
Jun 21, 2012

Report: Flame part of US-Israeli cyberattack campaign against Iran

The highly sophisticated Flame malware was jointly developed by the U.S. and Israeli governments in preparation for a cybersabotage campaign to disrupt Iran's nuclear fuel enrichment efforts, according to a media report.

Anthony Pell
Jun 21, 2012

Accused British hacker charged in US over LulzSec attacks

An alleged member of the LulzSec hacking group who prosecutors say targeted the Fox and PBS television networks and Sony's film and TV studio has been indicted in Los Angeles on federal charges, federal authorities said on Wednesday.

Dave Wreski
Jun 14, 2012

David Benjamin Schrooten, aka "Fortezza," Dutch hacker, pleads not guilty

In an investigation that spanned from a Seattle restaurant to Romania, a 21-year-old Dutch national pleaded not guilty Monday to federal computer hacking charges that include the theft of at least 44,000 credit card numbers.

Dave Wreski
Jun 12, 2012

Open source and the National Security Agency, together again

The Open Source Software Institute, a non-profit group that supports open-source adoption and the National Security Agency (NSA), the organization in charge of all out of country eavesdropping, will co-host an Open Source Software Industry Day on Wednesday, May 30, 2012.

Dave Wreski
May 29, 2012

Supreme Court Declines Case of Student Fined $675K for File Sharing

The Supreme Court today refused to hear the case of a college student who was fined more than half a million dollars for illegally downloading 30 songs.

Dave Wreski
May 22, 2012

Court Upholds Google-NSA Relationship Secrecy

A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the National Security Agency

Dave Wreski
May 14, 2012

Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement

Federal authorities who seized a popular hip-hop music site based on assertions from the Recording Industry Association of America that it was linking to four

Dave Wreski
May 04, 2012

CISPA Clears The House, What

Much has been made of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) lately, and last week (April 26), it passed through the House of Representatives. Like other cyber-security bills, CISPA is likely to be stalled in the Senate for a while. After that, President Obama has said he will veto the bill, shooting it down and protecting our privacy. Or will he?

Anthony Pell
Apr 30, 2012

Anonymous Takes Action Following Passage Of CISPA Bill By House

Following last week's passage of the controversial CISPA cybersecurity bill by the U.S. House of Representatives, the hacktivist group Anonymous is calling for protests and threatening to attack multiple organizations.

Dave Wreski
Apr 30, 2012

Government - Page 17

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