CYBER WARS - INDO DAILY

Wall Street Journal says hit by Chinese hackers too

Jan 31, 2013 (AFP)

The Wall Street Journal said Thursday its computers were hit by Chinese hackers, the latest US media organization citing an effort to spy on its journalists cov...

New York Times says victim of Chinese hackers

Jan 31, 2013 (AFP)

The New York Times said it had fallen victim to hackers possibly connected to China's military, linking the sophisticated attacks to its expose of the vast weal...

Israel combats cyberattacks, 'biggest revolution in warfare'

Jan 31, 2013 (UPI)

The chief of Israel's Military Intelligence has warned the Jewish state is under sustained cyberattack amid "the biggest revolution in warfare, more than gunpow...

Pentagon eyes fivefold boost of cybersecurity force: report

Jan 28, 2013 (AFP)

The US Department of Defense has approved a fivefold expansion of its cybersecurity force over the coming years in a bid to increase its ability to defend criti...

Hacker group Anonymous downs US government site

Jan 26, 2013 (AFP)

Hacker group Anonymous said it disabled the US Sentencing Commission's website Saturday in revenge for the death of Internet freedom advocate Aaron Swartz, and ...

Iran builds up cyber warfare capabilities

Jan 25, 2013 (UPI)

Amid a series a recent cyberattacks on Iranian industrial sites, Tehran is reported to be strengthening its cyberwarfare capabilities in a widening covert war w...

Google to offer $3 million in bounties for successful Chrome OS hacks

Jan 24, 2013 (UPI)

U.S. tech giant Google says it will pay a combined total of nearly $3 million to hackers who can find security weaknesses in its Chrome OS computer software. Th...

US charges East European cyber virus gang

Jan 23, 2013 (AFP)

The United States on Wednesday charged three young East European men with running an international cyber theft ring that broke into a million computers, includi...

Anonymous hacks Argentina data agency

Jan 17, 2013 (AFP)

Hacker group Anonymous blocked the official website of Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census amid an international stand-off over claims the c...

Global Web censors use devices from US firm: study

Jan 17, 2013 (AFP)

Authoritarian regimes around the world are using technology from a Silicon Valley firm for Internet surveillance, filtering and censorship, according to a repor...

Russian cyberlab discovers new virus

Jan 17, 2013 (UPI)

Russia's Kaspersky Labs has uncovered the "Red October" computer virus, used for cyberespionage. Kaspersky Labs said the Red October malware has been trolling t...

Report: German-U.S. 'no-spy' talks on verge of collapse

Jan 16, 2013 (UPI)

Negotiations on a "no-spy" agreement between Germany and the United States are on the verge of a rancorous collapse, a German newspaper reported this week. The ...

Hanoi's official bloggers hard at work

Jan 14, 2013 (UPI)

The Vietnamese government is using its own official bloggers to post comments on the Internet favorable to the ruling Communist Party and denigrate pro-democrac...

Kaspersky finds 'Red October' virus targeting EEurope

Jan 14, 2013 (AFP)

Kaspersky Lab said Monday it had identified a new computer virus it dubbed "Red October" targeting eastern European countries that appeared to be collecting cla...

Oracle patches dangerous Java holes

Jan 14, 2013 (AFP)

Oracle on Monday was distributing a patch for Java software flaws deemed so dangerous that the US Department of Homeland Security said that people should stop u...

US schoolgirl loses ID locator chip battle

Jan 09, 2013 (AFP)

A federal judge has dismissed a Texas girl's objection to locator chips in student ID badges at a public high school in a case that raises concerns about the er...

Iran blamed for cyber onslaught on US banks

Jan 09, 2013 (AFP)

US financial institutions are being pounded with high-powered cyber attacks that some suspect are being orchestrated by Iran as payback for political sanctions....

Judge reduces possible sentence for WikiLeaks suspect

Jan 08, 2013 (AFP)

A US judge on Tuesday reduced the potential sentence for WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning by 112 days because of his harsh treatment at a military jail, where ...

Secure communication technology can conquer lack of trust

Jan 04, 2013 (SPX)

Many scenarios in business and communication require that two parties share information without either being sure if they can trust the other. Examples include ...

Turning smartphones into secure and versatile keys

Jan 04, 2013 (SPX)

It's already possible to open doors using an app - but we are a long way from seeing widespread acceptance of this in the market. Now, researchers have develope...