The hacker collective Anonymous is marshalling the power of the international online community to electronically bury Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik's rambling manifesto
26 July 2011
#Hacker group #Anonymous launches operation to turn #Breivik into 'a joke'
The hacker collective Anonymous is marshalling the power of the international online community to electronically bury Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik's rambling manifesto
How to Stop Cyber crooks: Take Their Pals to Court - #cybercrime
No one knows exactly how big the cybercrime underground is. But it is huge. According to the British government, online thieves, scammers, and industrial spies cost U.K. businesses an estimated $43.5 billion in the last year alone. Crooks-for-hire will infect a thousand computers for seven dollars – that's how simple it's become. 60,000 new malicious software variants are detected every day, thanks in part to a new breed of crimeware that makes stealing passwords about as hard as setting up a web page. Even the Pentagon's specialists are worried, noting in their new cybersecurity strategy that "the tools and techniques developed by cyber criminals are increasing in sophistication at an incredible rate.
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Transnational Organized Crime: A Growing Threat to #NationalSecurity #TOC
Transnational organized crime (TOC) poses a significant and growing threat to national and international security, with dire implications for public safety, public health, democratic institutions, and economic stability across the globe. Not only are criminal networks expanding, but they also are diversifying their activities, resulting in the convergence of threats that were once distinct and today have explosive and destabilizing effects. This Strategyorganizes the United States to combat TOC networks that pose a strategic threat to Americans and to U.S. interests in key regions.
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Read full article here:NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
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Myanmar is No.1 #Spammer Now
Internet attacks can come from any country in the world at any given point in time. Over the course of the first quarter of 2011, Akamai's latest State of the Internetreport found one country to be the source of more attack traffic than any other.
Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma, now tops the list, representing 13 percent of all attack traffic observed by Akamai. Myanmar's top billing is particularly suprising given that the small south Asian country did not rank in the top 10 originating countries for attack traffic at the end of 2010.
Read full article here: eSecurity Planet
--Worse Than Zombies: The Mobile #Botnets Are Coming
As our smartphones have become our wallets and personal computers, holding everything from banking to social network information, they've become targets for hackers, scammers and criminals
Head Of US #Cyberdefense Agency Resigns In Wake Of #Hacker Attacks
The head of a U.S. government agency responsible for helping respond to cyberattacks on government networks has resigned following several high-profile attacks on U.S. government computer systems.
DOD's cyberstrategy "way too predictable"
WASHINGTON – U.S. cyber defenses are "purely defensive" and "way too predictable," according to Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright. By doing little more than patching up vulnerabilities after each attack, the U.S. is spending too much money and doing nothing to hit back at its attackers, he charged on Thursday.
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