“An audacious hacker has defaced 175 Australian websites in an attack that links viewers to his personal website, email and Facebook fan page.
The hacker, who is described as a 26 year old male from Tunisia, …

“But the White House this week issued a memorandum delineating the cybersecurity duties of the Office of Management and Budget, White House cybersecurity coordinator and DHS, with DHS gaining more responsibility in assuring agencies comply …

“Three men have been indicted in connection with a Ukraine-based fraud scheme which tricked Internet users into believing their computers were infected and collected some 100 million dollars, officials said Thursday.
Internet users in more than …

“The FBI’s top anti-cyber crime official today said the agency is planning a law enforcement action against so-called ‘money mules,’ individuals willingly or unwittingly roped into helping organized computer crooks launder money stolen through online …

“The U.S. Army Reserve Command began alerting affected reservists on May 7 via e-mail. Col. Jonathan Dahms, chief public affairs for the Army Reserve, said the personal data was contained on a CD-Rom in a …

“The 22-year-old son of a Tennessee state senator was convicted last week on one felony charge and one misdemeanor charge arising from his hacking into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo mail account during the 2008 presidential campaign.
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“Cyber criminals are focusing on developing expertise in one specific skill–such as coding, hacking or moving money–rather than being generalists as they collaborate with colleagues to carry out computer exploits, a senior FBI cybersecurity official …

“A former Transportation Security Administration contractor is being charged in Colorado for allegedly injecting malicious code into a government network used for screening airport security workers and others.
The malicious code, a logic bomb installed last …

“As economic espionage and hacking become growing threats to the West, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is stepping up efforts to persuade businesses to safeguard secrets deemed vital to national interests.
CSIS’s corporate-outreach program, which started …

“The risk of a catastrophic cyberattack is approaching the gravity of the nuclear risk, according to the Bush administration’s top spy.
‘The cyber risk has become so important that, in my view, it rivals nuclear weapons …