“The agency’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) said that creative criminals will be using scams called ‘smishing’ or ‘vishing’ to steal people’s personal information, such as bank account numbers, personal identification number (PIN) codes, or credit card numbers. “ (Source: FBI Warns Of Mobile Cyber Threats — Cybercrime — InformationWeek)
“The disclosure of thousands of classified State Department documents by WikiLeaks warrants the website being labeled a terrorist organization, King said. ‘By doing so we can seize their assets,’ King told Good Day New York.” (Source: Push To Name WikiLeaks Terror Group)
“Federal authorities have shut down dozens of Web domains as part of a crackdown on trafficking in counterfeit goods or copyrighted works. Internet users attempting to access the websites now are greeted by a notice that the sites have been seized by the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ‘The coordinated federal law [...]
“Iran admitted Monday that its controversial uranium enrichment centrifuges had been affected by a malicious computer virus, as reported by Western diplomats last week. Hours earlier, car bombs killed a top Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran and wounded another. Both events may color a resumption of talks on nuclear issues next week with the five [...]
“A global computer hacking effort: China’s Politburo directed the intrusion into Google’s computer systems in that country, a Chinese contact told the American Embassy in Beijing in January, one cable reported. The Google hacking was part of a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage carried out by government operatives, private security experts and Internet outlaws recruited [...]
“Senior cyber-security figures have said the Stuxnet worm – the first to have been used to damage targets in the real world – could be used to attack any physical target which relies on computers. The list of vulnerable installations is almost endless – they include power stations, food distribution networks, hospitals, traffic lights and [...]
“The Department of Homeland Security’s ICE has launched a major crackdown on websites enabling copyright infringement or selling counterfeits of trademarked goods. In just the past few days ICE has seized at least 12 domains, TorrentFreak reports. All of these domains now display the image shown here. The sites fall into two categories: torrent sites [...]
“Leaders are taking steps to bring defense industrial and domestic partners under an umbrella of protection from cyber attacks, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates Nov. 17. ‘There is a huge future threat and there is a considerable current threat [from cyber attacks],’ Gates said during a question-and-answer session at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council [...]
“A computer hacker who accessed personal data and photos from his mother’s front room in a major e-mail scam has been jailed. Father-of-five Matthew Anderson, 33, of Drummuir, Moray, who was part of an international gang, was caught after a Scotland Yard investigation. He sent millions of worldwide e-mails which released a virus when opened, [...]
“A Malaysian man hacked his way into the Federal Reserve Bank’s computers in Cleveland and also had more than 400,000 stolen credit card numbers when Secret Service agents finally caught up with him, federal prosecutors said. Lin Mun Poo was arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport last month as he traveled to New York for [...]
