CYBER WARS

News About Cyber Warfare

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Both the US and Russia to further protect their informational safety
Jan 28, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
It is expected that in 2014, the US will double its expenditures on cyber "weapons". In total, the US National Security Agency and the Pentagon are planning to ...
Israeli defence computer hit in cyber attack: data expert
Jan 27, 2014 (AFP)
Hackers attacked Israeli computers including one used by the defence ministry department dealing with civilians in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli data prote...
Obama to name US admiral as new NSA director: report
Jan 27, 2014 (AFP)
President Barack Obama is expected to name a US Navy admiral as the next head of the embattled National Security Agency, the Washington Post reported Monday. If...
S. Korea vows harsh penalties for data leaks
Jan 22, 2014 (AFP)
South Korean regulators Wednesday vowed harsh corporate penalties for data theft, as angry customers swamped credit card offices for a third day after 20 millio...
Slovenia frees hacker despite US extradition order
Jan 22, 2014 (AFP)
A Slovenian higher court on Wednesday rejected an United States extradition request and released a Romanian citizen charged with hacking into NASA computers in ...
China censors may have caused huge Internet outage: group
Jan 22, 2014 (AFP)
China's Internet suffered a massive breakdown as traffic was routed to an overseas site linked to the banned religious group Falun Gong -- a fiasco a cyber-moni...
Germany IT watchdog knew for weeks of mass cyber theft
Jan 22, 2014 (AFP)
Germany's cyber crime watchdog said Wednesday it learnt last month of the mass theft of 16 million digital identities through a criminal probe but needed weeks ...
France military to up defences against 'cyber war'
Jan 21, 2014 (AFP)
France will soon launch a 1.5-billion-euro ($2 billion) plan to defend itself against "cyber war" as a strategic priority, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian s...
Encrypted Blackphone goes to war with snoopers
Jan 19, 2014 (AFP)
It's a fully encrypted smartphone which aims to foil snooping governments, industry rivals and hackers. It's also a sleek, attractive device that fits in your p...
Hacker threats rise, with defenders lacking: report
Jan 16, 2014 (AFP)
A Cisco security report released on Thursday showed that hacker threats reached "startling levels" last year and that the world is suffering from a shortage of ...
NSA scoops up millions of text messages a day: report
Jan 16, 2014 (AFP)
The US National Security Agency has collected almost 200 million mobile phone text messages a day from around the world, a report said Thursday, in the latest r...
NSA taps offline computers with secret bug: report
Jan 15, 2014 (AFP)
The US National Security Agency has developed a secret technology to spy on computers via radio signals, gathering information even when the devices are offline...
Cyberwarfare main threat to US: poll
Jan 06, 2014 (AFP)
Cyberattacks are the most serious threat facing the United States, even more so than terrorism, according to American defense experts. Almost half of the US nat...
Voxx sees iris scans putting password era to bed
Jan 06, 2014 (AFP)
Voxx International wants iris recognition technology to render passwords obsolete, offering a "one in two trillion" level of online security. The US-based consu...
Hacker Jack died from accidental overdose: coroner
Jan 03, 2014 (AFP)
The sudden death of prominent hacker Barnaby Jack was due to an accidental overdose of heroin, cocaine and other drugs, a coroner's report said Friday. The New ...
US challenges ruling on 'Orwellian' NSA snooping
Jan 03, 2014 (AFP)
The US government said Friday it has lodged an appeal against a judge's ruling that the National Security Agency's "almost Orwellian"bulk collection of telephon...
Apple denies 'backdoor' NSA access
Dec 31, 2013 (AFP)
Apple said Tuesday it had no "backdoor" in its products after a security researcher and a leaked document suggested the US National Security Agency had unfetter...
Bank robberies decrease as criminals switch to cyber-crime
Dec 27, 2013 (UPI)
Bank robberies in Britain have dropped 90 percent in the last decade as criminals find greater rewards in targeting financial services online, figures indicate....
Israeli researchers say Samsung S4 phone has security vulnerability
Dec 24, 2013 (UPI)
Samsung's flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4, has a security flaw that could let malicious software track emails and record data communications, experts say. Re...
Hacking fears outweigh privacy concerns: US survey
Dec 20, 2013 (AFP)
US Internet users are far more worried about computer hacking and theft of personal information than about online privacy and tracking by marketers, a poll show...
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