Cyber Defense Remains ‘Major Challenge’ for Tanzania

Tanzania has acknowledged cybersecurity remains a major challenge to its communications industry and to national interests, according to professor John S. Nkoma, the director general of the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority.

Nkoma highlighted the issue of cybersecurity during a briefing to the newly appointed Minister for Communication, Science and Technology professor Makame…

Alion Wins $4.5M DARPA Contract to Support New Technology

Alion Science and Technology has won a three-year, $4.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to evaluate a new technology that will help troops deployed worldwide to improve how they record and analyze information obtained while on patrol.

Alion will provide performance evaluations on the Graph Understanding …

8th Grader Hacks into School’s Confidential Records

A Catholic school board in Canada has taken action after discovering a young hacker accessed confidential records, including test scores.

John Mackle, education director at the Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board, told QMI Agency the eight-grade student at St. Anne’s School in Peterborough used his  laptop, downloaded software and the board’s internal network to access a board file server containing provincewide…

Gary Locke: Identity Ecosystem Will Help Solve Online ‘Trust Issues’

To make the web environment safer for e-commerse and other transactions, the White House last week proposed creating an Identity Ecosystem, where Internet users can use strong, interoperable credentials from public and private service providers to authenticate themselves online for various transactions.

Delivering remarks at Stanford University, Calif.,…

Anonymous Accused of Cyber Attacking Irish Politician Enda Kenny

Irish politician Enda Kenny’s new website of the Fine Gael party was hacked this weekend, allegedly by Anonymous, Belfast Telegraph reported.

Kenny, who is the leader of the second-largest political party in Ireland, said the party shut down its normal website last week and replaced it with what he described as a “web connection point,” inviting the public to make complaints or comments about what is wrong with…

CSC Picks Nick Hopkinson to Lead UK Cybersecurity Business

CSC has named Nick Hopkinson director of cybersecurity within its U.K. business, a position in which he will lead the practice whose mission is to cut client risks and protect enterprises from cyber attacks, the company announced today.

“Our clients want to be confident that their information and network systems are protected,”…

IT Used on 70% of Crimes in Abu Dhabi

Crimes committed with the use of IT account for about 70 percent of all illegal activity in Abu Dhabi, according to a new report cited by GulfNews.

Addressing interrogators, judges and law students, Maj. Saeed Mohammad Al Hajeri, lead of the Information Technology Crime Department of Dubai Police,…

Work Begins on $1.2 Billion NSA Spy Center

Officials have marked the start of construction on a $1.2 billion National Security Agency cybersecurity center at a Utah National Guard camp near Salt Lake City, according to The Associated Press.

The building will be built on 200 acres at Camp Williams, south of Salt Lake City, and will…

Hackers Cyber Attack North Korean Leader, Heir

Hackers have attacked North Korea’s official YouTube and Twitter accounts, posting an animation showing Kim Jong-il’s son and rumored heir driving a sports car into a crowd of starving countrymen, according to media reports.

Reuters Africa reports the cyber attack occurred Saturday, which is believed to be Kim Jong-un’s birthday, and called for a revolution against the communist nation’s ruling dynasty.

One of the messages posted on…

ID Theft, Lottery Schemes Make BBB’s List of 2010 Scams, Rip-Offs

While small-business owners and other consumers were struggling in 2010 to make ends meet, scammers saw a profitable year with pulling off old, proven tricks and adding new ones to their repertoire of swindles.

The Better Business Bureau recently released its top 10 scams and rip-offs, and following, in no particular order, is the tally of schemes that swept the United States in 2010:

Job Hunter Scams – Scams…