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Hijacking Airplanes with an Android Phone
April 12, 2013 11:28 am | CommentsHugo Teso, a security consultant at n.runs AG in Germany, talks about the completely realistic scenario of plane hijacking via a simple Android app.
NYC Students, Hackers Train for Cybersecurity Jobs
April 12, 2013 11:07 am | CommentsEvery week, a group of teenagers and 20-somethings dressed in hoodies gets together in a tiny room on a college campus to train to become "white-hat" hackers, experts to help business and government agencies protect their data from cyber attacks that have become an almost daily occurrence.
A Beginner's Guide to Building Botnets
April 12, 2013 10:54 am | CommentsHave a plan to steal millions from banks and their customers but can't write a line of code? Want to get rich quick off advertising click fraud but "quick" doesn't include time to learn how to do it? No problem. Everything you need to start a life of cyber crime is just a few clicks (and many more dollars) away.
Obama Budget Makes Cybersecurity a Growing US Priority
April 11, 2013 8:00 pm | CommentsPresident Barack Obama has proposed increased spending to protect U.S. computer networks from Internet-based attacks in a sign that the government aims to put more resources into the emerging global cyber arms race.
Viral Photo Leads to Teen Suicide
April 11, 2013 11:54 am | CommentsA grieving Canadian mother has said her daughter hanged herself after she never recovered from an alleged rape by four teenage boys that left her deeply depressed and bullied in her community.
State Department Eyes Africa as Next Cyber Threat
April 11, 2013 11:27 am | CommentsThe federal government increasingly is concentrating diplomatic efforts on protecting Americans from hackers, but less is said about foreign allies who are equally mobile and even more vulnerable. Now, the State Department is paying attention.
North Korean Military Blamed for Cyber Attacks against South Korea
April 11, 2013 11:00 am | CommentsThe South Korean government is pointing a finger toward Pyongyang in its assessment of last month's cyber attacks on banks and media companies that affected thousands of computers and took electronic banking sites and ATM networks offline.
Unregulated Hacker Currency Used for Any Purpose
April 11, 2013 10:41 am | CommentsWhen they first began pinging across the Internet, bitcoins could buy you almost nothing. Now, there's almost nothing that bitcoins can't buy. From hard drugs to hard currency, songs to survival gear, cars to consumer goods.
Hacking Undermines China's Interests
April 10, 2013 10:49 am | CommentsHacking that originates inside China is undermining its relationship with the United States and harms Beijing's long-term interests, a U.S. diplomat said, in the latest high-level public expression of concern over a problem that has prompted threats of commercial retaliation from Washington.
Lulzsec Hackers Plead Guilty
April 10, 2013 10:38 am | CommentsMuted guilty pleas were a far cry from the brassy Lulzsec rhetoric heard in 2011 as the group took down one high-profile target after another.
RMP Cuts Digital Forensics Costs with Distributed Processing
April 10, 2013 10:13 am | CommentsThe Royal Military Police (RMP) Service Police Crime Bureau (SPCB) has cut its case backlog by 42 percent and reduced costs per initial case by nearly one-third using distributed processing technology.
Grant Expands Digital Forensics Work for Librarians and Archivists
April 9, 2013 8:00 pm | CommentsThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) has received a $456,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the second phase of the BitCurator project, to develop, distribute and integrate open source forensic software tools to manage and preserve digital archives.
Secret Weapon against Chinese Hackers
April 9, 2013 11:06 am | CommentsTargeted sanctions are particularly well suited to address the threats posed by cyber attacks and cyber theft, and they could form an important part of a larger strategy to mitigate the problem.
FBI's Smartphone Surveillance Tool Revealed
April 9, 2013 10:35 am | CommentsA legal fight over the government’s use of a secret surveillance tool has provided new insight into how the controversial tool works and the extent to which Verizon Wireless aided federal agents in using it to track a suspect.
US Air Force Designates Six Cyber Weapons
April 9, 2013 8:47 am | CommentsThe U.S. Air Force has designated six cyber tools as weapons, which should help the programs compete for increasingly scarce dollars in the Pentagon budget.
