A new U.S. military program shares classified information about <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/061411-despite-years-of-talk-utilities.html?hpg1=bn">cyber threats</a> with defense contractors and their ISPs as part of a stepped up effort to blunt potential cyber attacks, a Department of Defense official announced on Thursday.
Five dollars for control over 1,000 compromised email accounts. Eight dollars for a distributed denial-of-service attack that takes down a website for an hour. And just a buck to solve 1,000 captchas.
Federal authorities have seized all the cash in a Swiss bank account held by a scareware mogul and scam artist who is charged with selling phony Symantec security software.
Citigroup has acknowledged that hackers broke into its network and stole credit-card information related to tens of thousands of customers in North America, according to several reports.
As part of a look at the impact of identity theft and the Internal Revenue Service, watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office issued the IRS' top 10 list of identity theft information everyone should be aware of. Some of the information is obvious, perhaps, but overall even the basics of security were followed in many cases the impact of identity theft could be reduced.
The relentless <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/052411-sony-says-hacker-stole-2000.html">cyberattacks against Sony</a> should have businesses planning now what they will do when they, too, run afoul of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/012811-with-protests-growing-egypt-cuts.html">ideologically motivated adversaries</a>, experts say.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/071510-top-spam-botnets.html">Spammers</a> are experimenting with a new tactic to improve their success rate: setting up their own <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/012111-twitter-targeted-with-fake-antivirus.html">URL-shortening</a> sites as a way to dodge anti-spam software and avoid protections put in place by legitimate URL-shortening sites.
The ambitious new U.S. strategy for securing the Internet sets critical goals that may be hard to put into practice, experts say, because some of them conflict and pose seemingly insurmountable technical problems.
It will be a month tomorrow since Sony's PlayStation Network was fully operational, and the popular gaming site is still beset by troubles.
As if being unemployed isn't bad enough, 210,000 unemployed residents of Massachusetts may have had personal data about them stolen from the state agency that is supposed to be helping them out.
The US Secret Service has offered insights into its handling of the TJX cyber crime case, explaining that co-operation across national borders was vital to catching Albert Gonzalez.
Hackers talking in an online chat room are reportedly planning to steal customer data from Sony's network again this weekend and post it online.
Just as Sony all but accused the hacker group Anonymous yesterday with masterminding the breach of Sony's PlayStation Network, today Anonymous came up short of denying it infiltrated PlayStation Network but rather said others performed the attack with the intent of making Anonymous look bad.
The GFC-induced economic slowdown in Europe is having a direct impact on the growth of cybercrime and other organised crime according to the European Union’s law enforcement agency, Europol.
PlayStation Network customers involved in a class-action lawsuit against Sony could be waiting years for small compensation for damages they suffer as a result of their personal information being stolen during a breach last month, according to the lead attorney in the suit.