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Thursday, 17 May 2012 11:26 |
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BAKU (Reuters) - A group of hackers calling themselves Cyberwarriors for Freedom attacked the official websites of the Eurovision song contest on Thursday, demanding that the host nation, Azerbaijan, cancel next week's competition. Azerbaijan, a mainly Muslim ex-Soviet republic, won the right to host the contest by winning last year's event in...
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Thursday, 17 May 2012 05:47 |
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 (Reuters) - Research In Motion Ltd said the UK agency responsible for setting standards for computer security has approved the BlackBerry 7 operating system for government use. This will allow the government employees to use six models of the smart phone including BlackBerry Bold 9900, BlackBerry Torch 9810 and BlackBerry Torch 9860, RIM said....
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 21:42 |
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 Internet security researchers warned that foreign policy and human rights websites are being booby-trapped by hackers in what appears to be cyber espionage.
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 18:34 |
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Utah's chief technology officer has resigned following the theft of hundreds of thousands of online medical records from state computers by unknown hackers....
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Thursday, 10 May 2012 05:39 |
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Popular online video broadcasting and streaming service Ustream has gone down only three times in its five-year history, but on Wednesday it was hit with the most complex Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack it's ever seen....
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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 11:13 |
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OSLO - Norwegian police say they have arrested two teenage hackers accused of so-called denial-of-service attacks against websites in Norway, the U.S. and other countries....
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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 11:06 |
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Norwegian police say they have arrested two teenage hackers accused of so-called denial-of-service attacks against websites in Norway, the U.S. and other countries....
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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 06:32 |
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Hackers temporarily blocked President Vladimir Putin's web site on Wednesday, carrying out a promise to disrupt government information portals two days after his swearing-in for another six-year term that has drawn street protests. The hacker activist group Anonymous used the "Op_Russia" twitter account to publicize the attack,...
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Tuesday, 08 May 2012 15:57 |
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Hackers claiming to be affiliated with the hacktivist group Anonymous claimed this week to have accessed and published the details of about 55,000 Twitter accounts. But Twitter said Tuesday those claims are largely bogus, and that the group mostly posted duplicate information or username and password information for suspended spam accounts....
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Tuesday, 08 May 2012 15:44 |
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 Interpol president Khoo Boon Hui said on Tuesday that organised international gangs are behind most internet scams and that cyber crime's estimated cost is more than that of cocaine, heroin and marijuana trafficking put together.
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Tuesday, 08 May 2012 09:21 |
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Interpol said Tuesday it is making the war against cyber crime a main priority this year as online fraud crosses borders and increases in scope....
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Monday, 07 May 2012 15:28 |
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The founder of the computer virus software company McAfee Inc. says he is being persecuted by police in his home in the Central American country of Belize....
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Thursday, 03 May 2012 18:46 |
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 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp on Thursday said it had won a contract worth up to $454 million to support the Pentagon's Cyber Crime Center, a government facility that investigates the growing number of attacks on U.S. government networks. Lockheed beat out General Dynamics Corp, which previously ran the center, to win the contract in...
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Thursday, 03 May 2012 09:50 |
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LONDON (Reuters) - Hackers attacked the website of Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA), a spokesman said on Thursday, the latest in a wave of assaults against high profile targets like NASA, the Vatican and multi-national companies. The national police agency, often described as the British FBI, said it closed the website late on...
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Thursday, 03 May 2012 09:08 |
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LONDON (Reuters) - Hackers attacked the website of Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), a spokesman said on Thursday, the latest in a wave of assaults against high profile targets like NASA, the Vatican and multi-national companies. The national police agency, often described as the British FBI, said it closed the website late on Wednesday after...
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Thursday, 03 May 2012 06:36 |
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Britain's Serious and Organized Crime Agency says its website has been taken down following a denial-of-service attack....
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Wednesday, 02 May 2012 19:13 |
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 The website of Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has been taken offline after an attack by hackers, the agency said on Thursday.
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Tuesday, 01 May 2012 15:05 |
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A virus infecting Macintosh computers is picking Google's pocket by hijacking advertising "clicks," tallying as much as $10,000 daily, according to Internet security firm Symantec....
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Tuesday, 01 May 2012 14:25 |
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 Web wanderers are more likely to get a computer virus by visiting a religious website than by peering at porn, according to a study released on Tuesday.
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Tuesday, 01 May 2012 09:15 |
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Text message spam promising free iPads or cash rewards may be obnoxious and unwanted, but they also carry a greater danger: clicking on texts can install malware that collects personal data from your phone....
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Monday, 30 April 2012 20:31 |
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Microsoft and the banking industry on Monday provided a detailed, behind-the-scenes account of an operation they said disrupted a major cybercrime operation that used malicious software to allegedly steal $100 million from consumers over the last five years....
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