Hacking

Most Hacking Victims Blame Themselves: Symantec

nytimes.com | ROBERT MCMILLAN of IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau, IDG | Posted 05.25.2011

Just under two-thirds of all Internet users have been hit by some sort of cybercrime, and while most of them are angry about it, a surprisingly large ...

Facebook Gets An 'F'

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

Facebook and Twitter have received failing grades from Digital Society, a "digital think tank," that created an "Online Services Security Report Card"...

Caught in the Spider's Web: Online Financial Identity Theft

Bill Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

Bill Singer

So-called "carding" websites are providing criminals with online forums to buy and sell stolen identification and financial information. Don't get trapped in the net.

Wikileaks Link Admitted By MIT Grad: Man, 23, Denies Helping Accused Soldier

The Boston Globe | David Abel | Posted 05.25.2011

A recent MIT graduate acknowledged yesterday that he met and exchanged multiple e-mails with the Army private accused of providing thousands of classi...

Could A Single Hacker Crash A Country's Network?

computer.howstuffworks.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Harassing a handful of Web sites is one thing, but does one hacker have the technological wherewithal to bring down an entire country's network? In a ...

Chertoff Suggests Special Ops Takeout Cyber-Attacking Servers?

Josh Rushing | Posted 05.25.2011

Josh Rushing

Did Michael Chertoff, former director of Homeland Security, seriously suggest the possibility of responding with special forces to takeout the servers...

U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team Woefully Unprepared: Report

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — The federal agency in charge of securing the government's computer systems is unable to monitor the networks or analyze threats in ...

Hacking Facts You Didn't Know--But Need To (INFOGRAPHIC)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Hackers Stole Over $120 Million In Three Months

computerworld.com | Robert McMillan | Posted 05.25.2011

Ongoing computer scams targeting small businesses cost U.S. companies $25 million in the third quarter of 2009, according to the U.S. Federal Deposit ...

Google, NSA Will Partner To Stop Hackign, Cyber Attacks

The Washington Post | Ellen Nakashima | Posted 05.25.2011

The world's largest Internet search company and the world's most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecu...

Russia's Novaya Gazeta Web Site Hacked, Paralyzed

AP | DAVID NOWAK | Posted 05.25.2011

MOSCOW — The Web site of Russia's highest-profile independent newspaper has been paralyzed for a week by a sustained attack from hackers, its de...

Hackers Go Mobile: Is Your Cell Phone Prepared?

Chris Brassington | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Brassington

Make sure you are aware of the sheer extent of personal data you are storing and exchanging on your mobile, and take steps to prevent that from getting into the wrong hands

Inspiring You to Write a Popular Blog Post

Ari Herzog | Posted 05.25.2011

Ari Herzog

Be yourself and write like the passionate scribe you decided to be when you created your first post. Don't worry about comments or shares. Don't worry about page rank.

Hacking a Corporate Network with Facebook

Robert Siciliano | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert Siciliano

There's an excessive amount of trust in the Facebook world. When people login to the social-networking website, they drop their sense of cynicism; they feel they have no reason to distrust.

Securenet: How to Combat Internet Attacks

Mark A. Shiffrin and Avi Silberschatz | Posted 05.25.2011

Mark A. Shiffrin and Avi Silberschatz

Just as public roads and public airspace need to be closed to securely transport the President, we need to create Securenet as a closed, secure kind of limited access information superhighway for infrastructure communications.

Google and China: A Quick Q&A With a Tracker of the Chinese Internet

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 05.25.2011

Jeffrey Wasserstrom

A lot of coverage on Google's announcement has pointed out that it has a minority of the market in China. But Google's users tend to be among China's elite: academics, businesspeople, and other professionals

Hotmail Passwords: Thousands Leaked, Could Be Part Of Bigger Hacker Haul

Register | Posted 05.25.2011

In all, there were 10,028 pairs of user names and passwords posted to multiple pages of public upload website Pastebin.com, some of which remained liv...

Dmitriy Guzner: Teen Sentenced In Scientology Cyber Attack

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey man will serve a 366-day federal prison term for conducting a cyber attack on Church of Scientology Web sites in Jan...

Google Gmails China After Hack: Are You Feeling Lucky, Punks? China: Yup

Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.25.2011

Alex Pasternack

Even if Google packs up -- and I highly doubt even the "do no evil" company would leave the world's fastest growing economy -- would the move change China's censorship regime, or prevent further hacking?

Senate Panel: 80 Percent Of Cyber Attacks Preventable

wired.com | Posted 05.25.2011

If network administrators simply instituted proper configuration policies and conducted good network monitoring, about 80 percent of commonly known cy...

Climategate In Perspective, Featuring Isaac Newton

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Brendan DeMelle

Climate conspriricists pounced at the opportunity to draw grandiose conclusions from the illegal hacking of private emails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit.

Gary McKinnon's Mother Appeals To Obama For Mercy

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Janis Sharp, the mother of a British hacker who the United States intends to extradite for "the biggest military computer hack ever," issued a compell...

Why China's Green Dam Proposal Endangers American Technology and Human Rights

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Gary Shapiro

When any government demands control of its citizens' computers, the world must take note. I urge the technology community to tell Beijing that control through mandatory software is unacceptable.

Cyberattackers Winning The Online Security War

New York Times | JOHN MARKOFF | Posted 05.25.2011

Internet security is broken, and nobody seems to know quite how to fix it. Despite the efforts of the computer security industry and a half-decade st...

Russian Gang Hijacking PCs In Vast Criminal Scheme

New York Times | John Markoff | Posted 05.25.2011

A criminal gang is using software tools normally reserved for computer network administrators to infect thousands of PCs in corporate and government n...