Active Defense Bill Raises Concerns Of Potential Consequences

A discussion draft of a bill proposed on Friday by Rep. Tom Graves R-GA that would exclude organizations from prosecution for hacking back is already stirring up some concerns about potential unintended consequences. The Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act would exempt victims of computer crimes...

Infamous hacker "Guccifer" arrested in Romania; charged with multiple cyber crimes

"Guccifer" arrested in Romania, the infamous hacker who was responsible for breaching the social media and email accounts of numerous high profile US and Romanian Politicians. Romanian authorities collaborated with US services to catch him and the officers of the Directorate for Investigating...

RIP Aaron Swartz, A legendary Internet Activist

Aaron Swartz has committed suicide on January 11, 2013 in New York City. I have long been fought if you write something about this extraordinary boy, but not dedicate a tribute would be a shame. Aaron Swartz has decided to leave a huge void in the IT scenario. For me, as the entire world he is a...

Bulgarian Hackers Group arrested

Bulgarian Hackers Group arrested Bulgarian authorities say that after months of investigation they have busted the "most powerful hacker group" in the country, the Cyber Warrior Invasion. The operation was conducted by Bulgaria's Sector for Computer Crimes, Intellectual Property and Gambling and...

Anonymous Hacks, Leaks E-mails, Voicemails of California Special Agent

Calling it a form of “electronic civil disobedience,” hacktivist group Anonymous took aim at a special agent from the California Department of Justice on Friday. The group spilled 38,000 e-mails containing “computer forensics techniques, investigation protocols as well as highly embarrassing...

Alleged Anonymous Member Faces Internet Ban, Monitoring Software

The U.S. Government is demanding that an alleged member of the online hacking group Anonymous be banned from using the Internet as a condition of his release, but won’t require him to run FBI monitoring software on his computers, saying the monitoring wasn’t enforceable. In a motion filed on July...

Bridging The Gap Between IT And Law Enforcement

One of the big impediments to prosecuting computer crimes is getting law enforcement to pursue computer crimes with the same intensity that they do traditional property and violent crimes. But that’s easier said than done. At the recent B-Sides San Francisco Conference, Threatpost.com sat down wi...

The World Now, "Third Age" Cyber Crime !

The year 2010 was a crime of great team and could prove to mark the beginning of a "third age" of computer crimes, security expert Graham Cluley of Sophos, said before the review of the latest threats Company year. The first period was marked by amateur hackers and virus creation on the PC, the...

Secret documents reveal FBI spyware campaign against hackers

The FBI has been using an in-house spyware program for several years to monitor the activities of suspected online criminals and hackers, according to recently released documents. The documents, obtained by Wired.com, show that the FBI was able to plant the program on target machines by encouragi...