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Cyber crooks step up weapons production: report
May 22, 2012 (AFP)
Cyber criminals are cranking out new weapons at a brisk pace, tailoring malicious software for a spectrum of gadgets including smartphones, tablets, and Macinto...
Armenia jails Russian computer virus 'mastermind'
May 22, 2012 (AFP)
A court in Armenia on Tuesday gave a four-year jail sentence to the alleged Russian mastermind behind a computer virus crime group which infected some 30 millio...
Hackers booby-trap foreign policy group websites
May 15, 2012 (AFP)
Internet security researchers warned on Tuesday that foreign policy and human rights websites are being booby-trapped by hackers in what appears to be cyber esp...
US spy agency can keep mum on Google ties: court
May 11, 2012 (AFP)
The top-secret US National Security Agency is not required to reveal any deal it may have with Google to help protect against cyber attacks, an appeals court ru...
Lockheed Martin to Assist Department of Defense in Fight Against Growing Threat: Cyber Crime
May 07, 2012 (SPX)
Already one of the U.S. Department of Defense's most-experienced providers of solutions for defeating military threats, Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) will now team...
Thwarting the cleverest attackers
May 03, 2012 (SPX)
In the last 10 years, cryptography researchers have demonstrated that even the most secure-seeming computer is shockingly vulnerable to attack. The time it take...
Spot a bot to stop a botnet
May 03, 2012 (SPX)
Computer scientists in India have developed a two-pronged algorithm that can detect the presence of a botnet on a computer network and block its malicious activ...
US,Russia plan hotline to prevent cyber war: report
Apr 27, 2012 (AFP)
A hotline between the United States and Russia designed to defuse misunderstandings that could trigger a nuclear conflict will likely expand to cover the potent...
WikiLeaks suspect Manning faces ruling on key charge
Apr 26, 2012 (AFP)
A US military judge is set to rule Thursday if WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning can be charged with the serious crime of "aiding the enemy" for allegedly leaki...
US House passes controversial cybersecurity bill
Apr 26, 2012 (AFP)
The House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation protecting US businesses and agencies from cyber-attacks, a measure that critics say erodes civil li...
Iran 'mobilizing' for cyberwar with West: experts
Apr 26, 2012 (AFP)
Iran is busy acquiring the technical know-how to launch a potentially crippling cyber-attack on the United States and its allies, experts told a congressional h...
Manning challenges US to prove he 'aided the enemy'
Apr 25, 2012 (AFP)
WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning challenged US prosecutors Wednesday to prove he intended to "aid the enemy" by turning over documents to the whistleblower web...
WikiLeaks suspect Manning seeks dismissal of charges
Apr 24, 2012 (AFP)
Lawyers for US soldier Bradley Manning, who is accused of leaking secret documents to the WikiLeaks website, argued Tuesday for the dismissal of all charges aga...
Britain releases historic code papers
Apr 19, 2012 (UPI)
The British government says it is releasing two 70-year-old papers by computer pioneer Alan Turing on the theory of code breaking. It is believed Turing wrote t...
Top FBI cyber-cop joins spy thwarting startup
Apr 18, 2012 (AFP)
Veteran FBI cyber security expert Shawn Henry on Wednesday said he is fighting the enemy on a new front by joining a startup out to protect firms from online sp...
Lockheed Martin Awarded Army Intelligence Training Contract
Apr 18, 2012 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin reports that it has been awarded the G3 Training and Readiness Support Service contract with a ceiling value of $89 million and a three year per...
US, China engaging in cyber war games: Report
Apr 17, 2012 (IANS)
US and Chinese officials have been "discreetly engaging" in cyber war games in a bid to prevent military escalation between the two countries if either felt the...
US military intelligence critic to lead spy agency
Apr 17, 2012 (AFP)
A US general who once blasted the work of military spies in Afghanistan as "only marginally relevant" has been nominated to take over the Pentagon's intelligenc...
China internet censorship futile: Ai Weiwei
Apr 16, 2012 (AFP)
Dissident artist Ai Weiwei warned the Chinese government that its attempts to censor the internet would inevitably fail, in an article published in Monday's Gua...
Protest targets US cyber intelligence legislation
Apr 16, 2012 (AFP)
Civil liberties groups on Monday launched protests targeting proposed US cyber intelligence law that they fear would let police freely dip into people's private...
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