May 16, 2012 When FBI agents burst into his bedroom, they found Kamil Mezalka standing in his underwear, clutching a two-handed samurai sword that he had just plunged into the side of his desktop computer. The feds were there to question him about 4,000 images and videos of child pornography they believed were linked to his account; Mezalka was apparently trying to destroy the evidence.
May 16, 2012 The Data Killer line of products functions like most industrial-grade data erasing devices. Because information is magnetically encoded on conventional spinning-platter hard drives, the Data Killer uses a high-powered magnet to instantly blank the disks.
May 16, 2012 The headlines were as much about the evidence a London, Ont., jury never heard as they were about the evidence used to convict child-killer Michael Rafferty.
May 16, 2012 A principal figure in the domestic arm of an international “phishing” operation that used spam e-mails and bogus websites to collect personal information used to defraud American banks was sentenced to five years in federal prison.
May 15, 2012 With a mountain of circumstantial evidence to consider, the twelve jurors who convicted William Balfour said they needed to understand the chain of events in order to see the case more clearly.
May 15, 2012 The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the 2011 Internet Crime Report — an overview of the latest data and trends of online criminal activity.
May 15, 2012 Recent attacks were welcomed as part of Norwich University’s cyber-terrorism training program for students to help protect America in the Internet age, in tandem with its European and Arab allies.
May 14, 2012 A ransomware application that locks computers and asks their owners to pay fines for allegedly violating several laws through their online activity is targeting U.S. and Canadian users, malware experts from security firm Trend Micro say.
May 14, 2012 In the online struggle for network security, Kansas State Univ. cybersecurity experts are adding an ally to the security force: the computer network itself.
May 14, 2012 First it was the telephone, then web cameras and Skype, now remote "presence" is about to take another big step forward - raising some urgent legal and ethical questions.
May 11, 2012 Belkasoft has announced tighter integration of its flagship forensic tool, Belkasoft Evidence Center, with Guidance Software EnCase, the industry-standard all-in-one computer investigation solution.
May 11, 2012 The most challenging cyberattacks these days come from China and target Western firms' trade secrets and intellectual property. But a problem for some is a business opportunity for others: It's boom time for cybersecurity firms that specialize in going after Chinese hackers.
May 11, 2012 Say “cyber crime market” to the average MBA in America and they probably think you mean the market for security solutions to prevent cyber crime. In Russia the term "cyber crime market" apparently means the amount of money to be made from cyber crime.
May 10, 2012 Triumfant, creator of patented software that detects, analyzes and remediates the malicious attacks that evade traditional endpoint protections, has announced that the Univ. of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) has installed Triumfant to help detect malicious activity on UMIACS internal endpoint computers.
May 10, 2012 Louisiana, beaten but not out, is making another stab at restricting sex offenders from social networking sites after having its previous law overturned.
May 09, 2012 Geelong, AU police are being called to investigate cases of cyber bullying among school-aged children just months after the term became a chargeable offence.
May 09, 2012 In the wake of the biggest dump of classified information in the history of the Army, the brass is searching for ways to watch what every soldier is doing on his or her Army computer.
May 09, 2012 A U.S. Department of Justice grant will help the the Derry, N.H., police department fight cybercrimes and illegal drug activity, according to Police Chief Ed Garone.
May 08, 2012 Organizations often do not detect intrusions until after they've been compromised, says Rob Lee of SANS Institute. So how should they improve their incident-response posture? Lee offers three tips.
May 08, 2012 The Heartland Institute has released more evidence that Pacific Institute President Peter Gleick was the likely author of a fake “climate strategy memo” that Gleick originally claimed came from a “Heartland insider,” and later said he received “in the mail” from an anonymous source.
May 08, 2012 A memory card police believe has spent days in the belly of a B.C. hang glider may still contain salvageable evidence, according to an expert in digital forensics.
