Anon On the Run: How Commander X Jumped Bail and Fled to Canada
Courtesy of Nate Anderson/Aurich Lawson “You scared?” asks the fugitive in the camouflage pants as he sidles up to our pre-arranged meeting point in...
View ArticleUS-wanted Algerian Cybercrime Suspect Arrested in Thailand
Police in Thailand say they have arrested an Algerian cybercrime suspect sought by the U.S. FBI for allegedly making hundreds of millions of dollars by hacking banks’ websites. Immigration police chief...
View ArticleDisable Java, warns US government
The United States government has released a bulletin stating that users should disable Java on their computers, as recently the risk for potential hacks and security breaches using the software has...
View ArticleAaron Swartz’s family blame US attorneys and MIT for his suicide
The Internet community is still reeling from the news this weekend that Aaron Swartz, the co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification and one of the co-founders of Reddit, committed suicide at the age of...
View ArticleDespite Java weekend update, serious security issues remain
Late last week, the US government issued a security bulletin that recommended PC users disable Oracle’s Java on their systems, due to an recently discovered exploit that hackers have already been using...
View ArticleEric Schmidt: Chinese Hacking Will Leave US Disadvantaged Economically
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has predicted that China’s relentless culture of hacking and cyber espionage will put the US at a huge disadvantage and lead to a two-tier internet system. The...
View ArticleUS Congress: (Other) Governments Shouldn’t Mess with the Internet
The U.S. Congress has ground into a perpetual state of deadlock, producing a legislative branch that has been one of the mostunproductive in history. But there are still a few things Congresspeople...
View ArticleUS, Target of Massive Cyber-espionage Campaign
A new intelligence assessment has concluded that the United States is the target of a massive, sustained cyber-espionage campaign that is threatening the country’s economic competitiveness, according...
View ArticleSocial Media Tracking Software Created by Defense Firm
A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people’s movements and predicting future behavior by mining data from social networking websites. A video obtained by...
View ArticleUS to regulate Bitcoin currency at its all-time high
LOOKS like Bitcoin has got too big to ignore. Virtual currencies are to be regulated by the US Treasury after the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) moved to clarify their status under...
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