Anonymous: An Online Gathering ‘Fed Up’ with Injustice

Media outlets–including The New New Internet–have struggled to correctly describe the phenomenon Anonymous, labeling the loose coalition as hackers, online vigilantes and hacktivists. In an effort to set the record straight, Anonymous on Dec. 10 issued a press release to clarify what it really is and what it wants. Just don’t call them a group…

USIS Picks Michael Roberts to Head Training, Law Enforcement Division

USIS, an Altegrity company, has named Michael Roberts president of its training and law enforcement division, where he will direct the firm’s international law enforcement training programs.

Roberts joins USIS from Engineering Support Personnel, Inc., where he served as chief executive officer. Prior to ESP, Inc., Roberts was with Northrop Grumman…

InfraGard Recruits More ‘Volunteer Spies’ in Long Island

With cyber crime and financial fraud soaring, more Long Island, N.Y., businesses are joining InfraGard, FBI’s civilian watchdog that counters terrorism threats and protects critical infrastructure.

Brendan Healy, president of the Long Island chapter of InfraGard, told Newsday the group has about 340 members, representing an increase of 16 percent this year….

WikiLeaks Dissidents to Launch New Secret-spilling Site OpenLeaks

Former WikiLeaks supporters who now have distanced themselves from founder Julian Assange will shortly launch OpenLeaks, an organization that will act as a messenger to provide media with secret documents.

The new project will launch under the name OpenLeaks. Unlike WikiLeaks, the new site will not post leaked documents directly online but instead act…

Remorseful Hacker Donates Money to Panda Research

A remorseful Chinese hacker has donated 50,000 yuan ($7,515) to protect pandas after he used the image of the endangered bears as messengers for a virus, Xinhua reports.

Li Jun recently served a four-year prison sentence for his role in creating the “joss-stick burning panda” virus, which infected and damaged millions of computers worldwide. The virus changed desktop icons into cartoon pandas that deleted files and attacked…

Robert Butler: ‘Share to Win’ and ‘Need to know’ Not Mutually Exclusive

The recent leaks of U.S. classified information have highlighted the tension between the strategy of “share to win” and the necessity to enforce “need to know” among military commanders, said the deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber and space policy.

Robert J. Butler said sharing information within the…

Maryland Senator Proposes Minimum Cybersecurity Standards

A Maryland senator introduced legislation this week that would require the development and adoption of minimum cybersecurity standards to protect Americans from cyber crime and terrorism.

The Internet and Cybersecurity Safety Standards Act, crafted by Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, D-Md., would require the federal government and industry to collaborate to…

Operation Payback Strikes against Sarah Palin

You do not get away with comparing WikiLeaks Julian Assange to the Taliban without ramifications–just ask Sarah Palin, whose political action committee website was cyber attacked this week after she urged the U.S. government to hunt the Australian down “with the same urgency we pursue al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders.”

Anonymous, a loose coalition of hacktivists, has been accused of launching a series of DDoS attacks against foes of…

Craigslist ‘Baby-for-Sale’ Scam Nets Nothing but Arrest

Police have arrested a woman in Missouri accused of trying to sell a baby on Craigslist, and this is not the first time the suspect has been in trouble with the law.

The suspect, 29-year-old Alice H. Sims, was previously convicted of receiving stolen property and forgery, both felonies for which she received 5- and 3-year sentences, respectively, according to KOAMTV.com.

According to a news release from the Joplin…

Teen Suspect Nabbed for DoS Attacks on ‘Call of Duty’ Online Version

A teenager has been arrested in connection with a cyber attack that brought down the Internet version of “Call of Duty,” according to BBC News.

The 17-year-old was arrested in Manchester, England, after police allegedly traced his IP address to a DoS attack. The attack was facilitated by a Phenom Booter, which was shopped around online in a “Call of Duty”-related forum.

The software allows…