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Cyber criminals actively targeting financial institutions, warns FBI

Cyber criminals have been and are actively targeting employees of financial institutions with spam and phishing e-mails, warns the FBI-backed Internet Crime Complaint Center …

Data breaches expose 94 million records in the government sector

An analysis of government breach data shows that the government sector reported 268 incidents of data breaches from January 1, 2009 to May 31, 2012, which exposed more than 94 …

Government warns businesses of cyber crime threat

The government’s spy agency, GCHQ, launched a programme that aims to help business leaders tackle the growing threat of cyber attacks. The program, dubbed Cyber Security …

US Feds shutter three Android app pirate sites

For the first time since it has started the war against illegal sites, the US Department of Justice has swooped on three websites that were engaged in the illegal distribution …

End-to-end desktop virtualization for government organizations

Dell launched its Desktop Virtualization Solutions for Government (DVS-Gov), a secure solution that helps government agencies manage “geographic sprawl” through …

WikiLeaks’ Assange granted asylum in Ecuador

After spending 56 days holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has finally received a favorable answer to his request for political …

Nepalese government websites serving backdoor

Two websites belonging to the Nepalese government have been injected with malicious code that tries to take advantage of a Java vulnerability (CVE-2012-0507) in order to …

Iran government systems to be taken off the Internet for protection

Remember when Iran expressed its intention of setting up a national Internet disconnected from the World Wide Web in order to keep its citizens safe from Western ideas and …

US Senate shoots down Cybersecurity Act of 2012

Despite being endorsed by President Obama, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 has been blocked by the US Senate. The bill was aimed at enhancing the security and resiliency of the …

Illinois bans employers from demanding employees’ Facebook password

Illinois-based job searchers can breathe a collective sight of relief, as the state’s Governor Pat Quinn signed on Wednesday a bill that will prevent employers to demand …

What’s going on with the Cybersecurity Act of 2012?

This week we have witnessed a heated debate between US Senators who showed opposite opinions on the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, a bill aimed at regulating a number of important …

European Parliament rejects ACTA

Following recent recommendations by a number of European committees, the infamous Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement has been shot down today by the European Parliament in …

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