WikiLeaks has asked customers to boycott Bank of America after the bank said it would stop processing payments intended for the whistle-blower organization. The Charlotte Observer reported Friday evening Bank of America had joined other financial institutions in declining to process payments intended for WikiLeaks. Shortly after, WikiLeaks tweeted a link to the story and [...]
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Genesco Inc., a wholesale and retail marketer of footwear, headwear and accessories, said today it had suffered a cyber attack on its system that processes payment card transactions for its United States Journeys, Journeys Kidz, Shi by Journeys, Johnston & Murphy, and Underground Station stores. Although the extent of the compromise is currently unknown, Genesco [...]
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The United States should hire hacker Gary McKinnon to prevent future WikiLeaks revelations rather than putting him behind bars, a former member of the British parliament told her peers yesterday. McKinnon, who has been dubbed “the biggest military computer hack of all time,” has spent the past six years facing the threat of extradition to [...]
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They say everything can be bought online, and that includes your identity. Exactly how much is your personal information worth on the online black market? The answer might shock you. With organized crime in cyberspace becoming an increasingly widespread problem, surfing the web has become a risky business–and a lucrative one for online crooks. “In [...]
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced Wednesday a new cybersecurity coordinator position will be created at the State Department to help protect classified material, Federal News Radio reports. As the Department of State moves forward with new reforms, it intends to harness the power of innovation, applying new technologies, testing new approaches, and searching [...]
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Romanian authorities have uncovered a cyber-crime network blamed for causing more than 13.5 million dollars in losses to firms in the United States, Britain, South Africa, Italy and Romania, AFP reports. Police arrested 42 people and took them into custody Tuesday while several computers and hard disks were seized, according to a statement from the [...]
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Don’t call Richard Stiennon a cyberwar alarmist. While his new book, Surviving Cyberwar, is the latest in a series of recent books about the global online threat, he told The New New Internet he’s not just another voice in the “sky is falling” cyber chorus. Instead, Stiennon, who serves as chief research analyst at IT-Harvest, [...]
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Prison Time for Man Peddling Bootleg Copies of Anti-Virus Software, DVDs
December 16, 2010 No CommentA 55-year-old California man was sentenced yesterday to four years in prison for selling counterfeit anti-virus software, DVDs and CDs. Julius Chow Lieh Liu of El Cerrito was convicted by a federal grand jury in June for criminal copyright infringement and trafficking in counterfeit labels. During the trial, evidence showed he had engaged through his [...]
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Computer systems in the United Arab Emirates are weak and vulnerable to cyber attacks, according to two students who are poised to become the country’s future cyber warriors. Hanadi al Zaabi and Asma Aidrous, information security students from Zayed University, are the first Emirati women to be receive the certificate in ethical hacking from the [...]
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It can be costly to clean up after a security breach, just ask Ohio State University. After hackers broke into a school server that housed students’ names, Social Security numbers and other personal data, officials spent $4 million to pay for the forensic investigation and credit-protection services for those affected by the compromise. In October, [...]
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