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"Dear UK government," the ominous letter begins. "It has come to our attention that you deemed it necessary to arrest five of our fellow anons for their participation in the DDoS attacks against PayPal, Mastercard, and others, that have been carried out in our name in retaliation for those organiza...
As anti-government protesters take over the streets in Egypt, the country's government has reportedly cut off most Internet and cellphone service. Cairo has labeled its crackdowns on the protests as a response to restore public order. However, critics say Egypt's cutting of communications is an atta...
In the wake of Cablegate, the massive release of sensitive documents released online by WikiLeaks and the subsequent DDoS attacks by pro- and anti-WikiLeaks factions on each others' websites, a fact long-known to only a few cognoscenti became public -- free speech online is very much endangered. Bot...
Human rights groups are increasingly getting shut down by distributed denial of service and other cyberattacks, according to a report from Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The center reported that 280 independent media and human rights websites were hit by 140 attack...
In the wake of Pentagon-based U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's leaks of thousands of files from SIPRNET -- the Defense Department's internal version of the Internet -- to Wikileaks, all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces are ordering troops to stop using portable or removable media. Military personne...
Cyberattacks this week by supporters of Wikileaks on the home sites of Visa and MasterCard may have been designed to grab headlines rather than actually disrupt the companies' financial operations. The wave of electronic assaults, referred to as "Operation Payback" by the activists mounting the atta...
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange looms like the mysterious British freedom fighter V atop the Drudge Report, threatening a "devastating" confidential document dump if his organization suffers any more hack attacks. Paypal says Wikileaks and its donors are pals no more. Amazon.com boots Wikileaks off...
Wikileaks, the controversial site that has caused a worldwide diplomatic furor by dumping nearly 250,000 documents covering private United States diplomatic communications, has reportedly moved to the Amazon cloud. The release of the documents, collectively dubbed "Cablegate," has sparked outrage. W...
China Telecom has reportedly denied accusations by a U.S. government organization that it was behind the rerouting of 15 percent of the world's Web traffic to servers in China for a short period earlier this year. The Chinese state-owned carrier was pinpointed by the U.S.-China Economic and Security...
Microsoft's vice president of trustworthy computing, Scott Charney, has put the call out for a collective, coordinated approach to protecting the public from, among many other threats, botnets. The worldwide Internet community would do well to apply a public health approach to battling the viruses a...
The Stuxnet worm, which made headlines last summer when it hit one version of a system that controls critical infrastructure systems governing power grids and industrial plants, is once again creating a buzz. This time, there's speculation that it was created by Israel to target Iran. However, secur...
A "significant compromise" of U.S. military networks has been acknowledged by the Pentagon two years after the breach was reported in the press. "In 2008, the U.S. Department of Defense suffered a significant compromise of its classified military computer networks," Deputy Secretary of Defense Willi...
The Stuxnet worm is one of the most sophisticated bits of digital malware security researchers have come across in a long time. Now, those researchers want to know where it came from. Was Stuxnet the product of a den of hackers working on their own accord, or did a national government somewhere in t...
The National Security Agency claims a report this week inaccurately asserted that the agency's so-called Perfect Citizen program is designed to monitor critical U.S. cybernetworks. The Wall Street Journal reported recently that an NSA-headed project dubbed "Pefect Citizen" is aimed at monitoring net...
The federal government is launching a program to detect cyberattacks on America's critical infrastructure installations, such as the nationwide electricity grid and nuclear power plants, according to The Wall Street Journal. The National Security Agency will allegedly run the program, dubbed "Perfec...
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