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An FBI report about Bitcoin leaked to a number of online media outlets earlier this month caused anxiety in some corners of the Internet. Bitcoin "provides a venue for individuals to generate, transfer, launder, and steal illicit funds with some anonymity," says the 20-page report. "Bitcoin will lik...
Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of IT pros believe their organizations will be the target of a cyberattack in the next six months, and three out of five (61 percent) say the attack will come from hactivists. That was one of the findings in cybersecurity firm Bit9's annual security survey released las...
Last week, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission let Google off with a tap on the wrist for hindering the commission's efforts to investigate allegations that Google was slurping information from WiFi networks with its fleet of mapping vehicles.The search giant's punishment -- a $25,000 fine le...
A week after the Flashback Trojan began running rampant on Macintosh computers, the malware appears to be in remission. The number of infections from the Trojan have plummeted to around 270,000, from a high of more than 600,000, according to the latest numbers from Symantec. "Many of the domain na...
Hackers purporting to be members of the nebulous online hacker community Anonymous have reportedly hit almost 400 websites in China. The attacks have apparently been going on since March 30. They are listed on the Anonymous China Twitter page. "China is seen by many as a repressive regime that sever...
Online text depository Pastebin has decided to more closely monitor its site to quickly remove potentially sensitive information, according to a report from the BBC. The site is intended as a way for Internet users to post large amounts of data outside of somewhere such as a comment forum or a blog ...
Two zombie networks infamous for stealing banking information and spewing spam were hit with a right-left combination last week by botnet fighters. Using the power of the federal RICO Act, Microsoft, along with organizations representing the financial services industry, took down two command-and-con...
We live in times when technology is exceeding the understanding of educational institutions and corporations. A highly social Web and a bad economy is making the Dark Side -- the Internet underworld where cybercrime and hacking run rampant -- overwhelming. Hacktivism is the new, hip thing; it has be...
Nine months after shutting down operations -- and just weeks after several suspected members were arrested -- the LulzSec hacker community has apparently sprung back to life, hacking the website of military dating site MilitarySingles. However, there's some controversy over whether that site had ind...
Iran apparently has developed an antivirus program to neutralize the notorious Stuxnet virus that put a kink in the country's nuclear development program in June 2010. Iran has vowed to distribute the antivirus program for free in about a month, according to Trend, a publication that describes itsel...
With the explosion of Web-based communications in the form of applications, blogs, podcasts, and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, new security threats that can cause serious damage to computers are emerging. As they access these Web-based services from both work and personal comput...
The BBC was the target of hack attacks earlier this month, according to comments made by BBC Director-General Mark Thompson in a wide-ranging speech to the Royal Television Society on Wednesday. There was a simultaneous attempt to jam two different satellite feeds of BBC Persian into Iran, and to di...
Nearly 80 percent of organizations have experienced a data breach in the last two years due to employee negligence or maliciousness. That was one of the findings in a study released last week by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by antivirus software maker TrendMicro. A surprising discovery by the...
The hacktivists known as "Anonymous" have retaliated following Tuesday's news of the arrests of LulzSec hackers exposed by their former leader, Hector Xavier Monsegur. Overnight, Anonymous hackers took down more than 25 websites belonging to Panda Security. They also posted email addresses, username...
NASA has become a popular target of hackers. The space agency's computer network was breached 13 times in 2011 -- to the point where suspected Chinese hackers gained "full functional control" of computers used by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory," a government inspector general told congressional in...
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