Hacker Threatens Biden, Frames Neighbor

A hacker tried to frame his neighbor by using his neighbor’s Wi-Fi and sending threatening messages to Vice President Joe Biden, according to recently unsealed search warrant affidavits.

Barry Ardolf, 45, is accused of using his neighbor’s computer to send the threatening message to the Vice President. Ardolf has a history of disagreements with neighbors in the various places he has lived.

According to the affidavits filed by FBI Special Agent…

Gourley: Intelligence Community Should Provide Unclassified Cyber Threat Assessments Annually

Last week, Sens. Joe Lieberman, Susan Collins and Tom Carper unveiled the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010, S.3480. The bill will create a permanent Office of Cyber Policy in the White House and form a give the Department of Homeland Security the power to enforce cyber…

Lynn: Cyber Attacks Would Harm US, Canada Ties

The United States and Canada already cooperate on a number of military and national security initiatives, including the war in Afghanistan. The two countries are now looking to extend that cooperation into the cyber arena.

Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III was in Canada yesterday to discuss increased cooperation in cyberspace between the United States and Canada….

Are You Part of the Botnet Army?

As malware becomes more prevalent, the number of infected computers continues to grow, some of which are becoming part of large-scale botnets. So what can you do to protect yourself from joining the “botnet Army?”

A botnet is a string of computers that are each infected with malware. The infected computers are linked back to a command and…

Featured Job- Cyber-Security Strategist with Northrop Grumman

Roles and Responsibilities: The Cyber-Security and Enterprise Services (CES) Operating Unit within NGIS’s Defense Enterprise Services (DES) Business Unit has an immediate need for a Cyber-Security Strategist (CSS). The CSS will: Be responsible for establishing a multi-year Cyber-Security strategy for CES. This strategy will establish an actionable plan for growing CES’s customer sales with Cyber-Security customers, primarily DoD customers. The strategy will…

FCC Warns Public of ‘Cyber Snoops’

After reports about incidents with Google’s Street View cars accidentally gathering personal data submitted over WiFi networks, hackers stealing iPad owners’ email addresses, and wireless and Wi-Fi networks making users’ private data accessible, the Federal Communications Commission is warning members of the public about how easily their data can be get into the wrong hands.

In a blog post last Friday, FCC Chief of the…

Indonesian Government Hacked over World Cup

Spammers and other cyber miscreants are already taking advantage of the World Cup, spreading malware and spam featuring World Cup related ads and emails. However, a security researcher at Kaspersky Labs has discovered a new attack, that appears to not focus on collecting money.

“The attack was on the Indonesian government Web server,” Dmitry Bestuzhev of Kaspersky Labs, writes. “The gang behind the attack put a defacement on…

Taliban Hacked, DoD Starts Cyber Offensive?

The webmaster of a Taliban-endorsed website has claimed that the website was hacked. Abu al-Aina’a al-Khorasani, an administrator for a jihadi forum endorsed by the Taliban wrote in a  post that “group’s main site and the site of its online journal Al-Sumud, have been the subject of an ‘infiltration operation,’” according to Wired.com.

The post goes on to warn online jihadists “to not enter any of the links that concern…

Police to Provide Cybersecurity to Educational Institutions

In an effort to stem data theft and phishing attacks against state colleges and universities, the Indian Cyber Crime Cell of Ahmedabad Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) has opted to provide the educational institutions with cybersecurity solutions.

With universities vulnerable to cyber attack, highlighted by a recent data tampering incident at the Gujarat University by a student, the…

Assam Police Not Prepared for Cyber Crime

Police in Assam, a state in northeastern India, lack the basic tools to combat cyber crime, according to a report in The Assam Tribune. The majority of police are not even familiar with basic computer usage, the article claims.

“Be it having trained human resource or requisite technology to counter online crimes,…