CYBER WARS - INDO DAILY

Lawsuit slams 'apps' for mining smartphone contacts

Mar 15, 2012 (AFP)

A small group of US smartphone owners has filed a lawsuit demanding that Facebook, Twitter and other makers of smartphone "apps" pay dearly for mining people's ...

Estonia to extradite high flying cyber crime suspect to US

Mar 15, 2012 (AFP)

Estonia on Thursday said it would extradite Estonian citizen Anton Ivanov to the United States over alleged cyber crimes involving such popular websites as iTun...

Lasers can 'unprint' documents

Mar 15, 2012 (UPI)

British researchers say they've developed a laser process that can "uncopy" toner ink from paper as an alternative to traditional recycling. Scientists at the U...

Groups lists 'enemies of the Internet'

Mar 13, 2012 (UPI)

Reporters Without Borders says it has added Bahrain and Belarus to 10 other nations on its annual list of "enemies of the Internet." The two nations have been m...

Spies create top NATO commander's fake Facebook profile

Mar 13, 2012 (IANS)

NATO's top commander has been embroiled in a major security alert after a fake Facebook account was opened under his name by "Chinese spies". Senior British mil...

'Anonymous' group hacks Tunisian Islamist sites

Mar 12, 2012 (AFP)

Hackers claiming to belong to the Anonymous Internet freedom group posted video messages on Facebook pages of Tunisian Islamists, threatening reprisals over the...

Internet Censorship Revealed Through the Haze of Malware Pollution

Mar 09, 2012 (SPX)

On a January evening in 2011, Egypt - with a population of 80 million, including 23 million Internet users - vanished from cyberspace after its government order...

Cyber Threat from China, Russia and Iran on US Military and Civilian Networks Drive Cyber Warfare Spending

Mar 09, 2012 (SPX)

The global spending on cyber warfare systems is expected to remain robust over the forecast period due primarily to the increased importance of such systems in ...

Northrop Grumman To Strengthen Cybersecurity Across DoD And Intel Networks

Mar 09, 2012 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman has been awarded a cybersecurity task order by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to strengthen cybersecurity protections across all...

China cyber warfare skills a risk to US military: report

Mar 08, 2012 (AFP)

China's cyber warfare capabilities would pose a danger to US military forces in the event of a conflict over Taiwan, according to a report by a US congressional...

Hacker ring busted after leader turns FBI informant

Mar 06, 2012 (AFP)

Five alleged computer hackers in Britain, Ireland and the United States were charged Tuesday in high-profile cyberattacks after a leader of the group became an ...

Stuxnet was 'good idea': former CIA chief

Mar 02, 2012 (AFP)

The Stuxnet computer virus sabotage of Iran's nuclear program was a "good idea" but it lent legitimacy to the use of malicious software as a weapon, according t...

Lockheed Martin and NRTC to Offer Information Technology and Cyber Security Solutions to Rural Utilities

Mar 02, 2012 (SPX)

Lockheed Martin and the National Rural Telecommunication Cooperative (NRTC) have announced a partnership to deliver Lockheed Martin's information technology and...

FBI chief seeks allies to fight cyber crime

Mar 01, 2012 (AFP)

FBI director Robert Mueller warned a gathering of Internet security specialists on Thursday that the threat of cyber attacks rivals terrorism as a national secu...

Interpol swoop nets 25 suspected 'Anonymous' hackers

Feb 28, 2012 (AFP)

Interpol has arrested 25 suspected members of the 'Anonymous' hackers group in a swoop covering more than a dozen cities in Europe and Latin America, the global...

Anonymous, WikiLeaks team up

Feb 27, 2012 (AFP)

Anonymous defended WikiLeaks when it was facing a funding cutoff, but the release of the Stratfor emails appears to be the first direct collaboration between th...

Twists to quantum technique for secret messaging give unanticipated power

Feb 24, 2012 (SPX)

Quantum cryptography is the ultimate secret message service. Now new research, to be presented at the 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting, shows it can counter even the ul...

Hacker campaign targets US prison contractor

Feb 24, 2012 (AFP)

Hacker group Anonymous on Friday vandalized the website of a major US prison contractor in the latest salvo in an anti-police campaign. Anonymous subgroup "Anti...

WikiLeaks suspect Manning declines to enter plea

Feb 23, 2012 (AFP)

WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning declined to enter a plea at his arraignment Thursday on charges of turning over a massive cache of classified US documents to ...

WikiLeaks suspect charged, declines to enter plea

Feb 23, 2012 (AFP)

WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning declined to enter a plea as the US Army private was formally charged on Thursday with turning over a cache of classified US do...