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Security Experts, Internet Engineers Urge Lawmakers to Drop CISPA

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A long list of security, networking and computer science experts have signed a letter sent to lawmakers on Monday, asking them to drop support for CISPA and other proposed cybersecurity bills because they consider the measures overly broad and say they would infringe on users' privacy and civil liberties.

Dave Wreski
Apr 24, 2012

Ohio

An Ohio man linked to the hacker collective

Alex
Apr 17, 2012

Megaupload User Demands Return of Seized Content

An Ohio man is asking a federal judge to preserve data of the 66.6 million users of Megaupload, the file-sharing service that was shuttered in January following federal criminal copyright-infringement indictments that targeted its operators.

Anthony Pell
Apr 09, 2012

Dutch police arrest youth in connection with breach of KPN servers

The Dutch High Tech Crime Team has arrested a 17-year-old suspected of compromising customer account data on hundreds of servers belonging to telecommunications operator KPN.

Dave Wreski
Mar 27, 2012

Accused Irish LulzSec hacker worked in security

One of the people accused by U.S. authorities of being at the core of Lulz Security, perhaps the most feared hacking group on the planet, led a nonprofit group in Galway, Ireland, dedicated to making websites more secure.

Anthony Pell
Mar 12, 2012

The one tiny slip that put LulzSec chief Sabu in the FBI's pocket

The man named by the FBI as infamous hacktivist Sabu was undone by an embarrassing security blunder, it has emerged.

Anthony Pell
Mar 08, 2012

Hackers Reeling After FBI Takedown Led By 'Mole'

Even as he urged tens of thousands of Twitter followers to rise up and attack government and law enforcement, the most wanted hacker on the planet was working for the FBI.

Dave Wreski
Mar 07, 2012

LulzSec Hacking Suspects Are Arrested

An outspoken member of a loosely knit group of hackers that calls itself Lulz Security pleaded guilty to breaking into the computer systems of several prominent American companies, according to federal court papers unsealed Tuesday morning in New York.

Dave Wreski
Mar 06, 2012

British Facebook hacker sentenced to eight months in prison

We all know crime doesn't pay, but sometimes hacking does pay. More than a few so-called ethical (or White Hat) hackers have discovered a security vulnerability only to end up with a new job or hefty bounty.

Alex
Feb 22, 2012

Feds: Megaupload files may be deleted this week

Federal prosecutors who accuse file-sharing site Megaupload of being a hotbed of digital piracy say the site's customer files, presumably including perfectly legal ones, may be deleted starting Thursday.

Dave Wreski
Jan 30, 2012

Judges set timetable for McKinnon case resolution

Senior judges have set a timetable to speed up resolution in the long-running Gary McKinnon extradition case, effectively setting a deadline for the Home Office to respond to evidence that McKinnon is too infirm to withstand the stress of a US trial and likely imprisonment over alleged Pentagon hacking offences.

Anthony Pell
Jan 27, 2012

Megaupload Bail Decision Reserved

Kim Dotcom and the other Megaupload defendants may have to wait until Wednesday to find out if they can be released on bail.

Alex
Jan 24, 2012

Air Force Drone Controllers Embrace Linux, But Why?

Did a Windows virus outbreak in systems related to military drones cause the Air Force to switch its control systems from Windows to Linux?

Alex
Jan 17, 2012

Reddit Founder, DNS Hacker And Other SOPA Critics Will Address Congress In Hearing

Opponents of the Stop Online Piracy Act, the bill that threatens to block large swathes of foreign websites for alleged copyright infringement, have complained that Congress has yet to hear their voice. In the initial hearing and markup of the bill in Congress, the only outside critic of the bill invited as a witness was Google, whose opposition to the act was largely dismissed as an isolated exception.

Alex
Jan 10, 2012

Use An iPhone? Yup, The Government Tracks That

Last week, an Indian hacker crew successfully broke into a secured Indian military government network. The group, the Lords of Dharmaraja, posted documents that infer Apple, Nokia, and Research In Motion gave the Indian government backdoor access to their devices in exchange for mobile phone market rights.

Dave Wreski
Jan 10, 2012

E-voting machine freezes, misreads votes, U.S. agency says

An electronic ballot scanning device slated for use in the upcoming presidential elections, misreads ballots, fails to log critical events and is prone to freezes and sudden lockups, the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission has found.

Anthony Pell
Jan 06, 2012

Chinese Hackers Used 'Spear Phishing' To Attack U.S. Chamber Of Commerce

As hackers from China snooped around the computer system of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last year, many Chamber employees started receiving a dramatic uptick of spam emails.

Dave Wreski
Dec 22, 2011

UK police arrest six in student loan phishing scam

U.K. police arrested six people on Thursday for allegedly running a phishing scam that stole an estimated 1.6 million (US$2.6 million) from victims who had taken out student loans.

Dave Wreski
Dec 09, 2011

Romanian hacker arrested for breaching security of NASA's servers

A court in Romania has ordered the arrest of a Romanian man accused of Hacking into NASA's servers. Court spokesman Lucian Marian in the northwest city of Cluj says Robert Butyka would be arrested for 29 days as he awaits trial.

Dave Wreski
Nov 16, 2011

DARPA wants hackers' help to go on the 'cyber-attack' offensive

It's been a rough week for digital security in the USA, with China accused of hacking satellites and stealing secrets (claims they deny). Now it looks like the United States is planning on better readying itself for electronic threats by bumping up its cyber arsenal, both offensive and defensive.

Dave Wreski
Nov 08, 2011

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