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Mar 28, 2013	Cyberattacks Seem Meant to Destroy, Not Just Disrupt QUOTE: an intensifying campaign of unusually powerful attacks on American financial institutions that began last September and have taken dozens of them offline intermittently, costing millions of dollars....Corporate leaders have long feared online attacks aimed at financial fraud or economic espionage, but now a new threat has taken hold: attackers, possibly with state backing, who seem bent on destruction.	New York Times
Mar 08, 2013	Skype's Been Hijacked in China, and Microsoft Is O.K. With It QUOTE: a conflict between Microsoft’s advocacy of privacy rights and its role in surveillance....When Internet users in China try to access Skype.com, they’re diverted to the TOM-Skype site. While the Chinese version bears the blue Skype logo—and provides services for online phone calls and text chats—it’s a modified version of the program found elsewhere in the world. The surveillance feature in TOM-Skype conducts the monitoring directly on a user’s computer...	BusinessWeek
Mar 01, 2013	Will the “Six Strikes” Copyright Alert System Hurt Consumers And Small Businesses? QUOTE: On Monday, the Copyright Alert System, or “Six Strikes”, went into affect across the five biggest ISPs in the U.S. The system hopes to catch those pirating content over P2P networks, and send them a notice detailing their infringement. The hope is that those who are caught will start using legal alternatives. To better understand the CAS, we have to look at what the Center for Copyright Information is doing with it. First, there are three tiers to the CAS that consumers should be aware of with each tier having two levels within it. The three tiers are as follows – educational alerts, acknowledgement alerts and mitigation measures.	WebProNews
Jun 13, 2012	Owners May Not Be Covered When Hackers Wipe Out A Business Bank Account QUOTE: Computer security specialists say these crimes, called “corporate account takeovers,” have become increasingly common...most banks do not take responsibility for unauthorized debits from business accounts. Unless the owners have fraud insurance, they must shoulder the losses alone.	New York Times
Mar 28, 2012	News Corp in fresh storm QUOTE: The emails, said to be from the hard drive of a former head of security at NDS, a former News Corp subsidiary, appear to show that the company paid computer hackers to work with its "operational security" unit....The Australian Financial Review claimed that NDS's activities in Australia in 1999 caused millions of dollars of damage to Mr Murdoch's rivals in the country's nascent pay-TV market. The business models of Austar, Optus and Foxtel were all damaged by a wave of high-tech piracy at that time.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Mar 15, 2012	For Apple, Pressure Builds Over App Store Fraud QUOTE: as reflected by hundreds of online complaints saying that Apple’s iTunes Store, and in particular its App Store, which the company portrays as the safest of shopping environments, is not so secure....It’s a change for Apple, which was once criticized for its micromanaging of the App Store. Now the problem is not too much control, but too little.	New York Times
Feb 17, 2012	Google Accused of Tracking Safari Usage Without Permission QUOTE: A Stanford University graduate student has released a report that accuses Google and three other ad networks [Vibrant Media, Media Innovation Group, and PointRoll] of side-stepping the privacy settings on Apple's Safari browser to track usage on iPhones and Macs without permission.	PC Magazine
Jan 25, 2012	Build Up Your Phone’s Defenses Against Hackers QUOTE: Technology experts expect breached, infiltrated or otherwise compromised cellphones to be the scourge of 2012. The smartphone security company Lookout Inc. estimates that more than a million phones worldwide have already been affected.	New York Times
Jan 23, 2012	MegaUpload: The content cartel strikes back QUOTE: Like SOPA and PIPA, the bust comes with its own collateral damage. Along with those pirated movies and music, the feds took down noninfringing data from thousands of legit MegaUpload users, who are howling in protest and demanding -- futilely, so far -- the return of their stuff.	InfoWorld
Nov 30, 2011	Is your phone telling the carrier everything you do? QUOTE: the XDA-Developer site noticed that a preinstalled mobile app, named CarrierIQ, was logging all smartphone activities with no way to opt out....Although consumers are buying smartphones — and assume they have ownership — are the handsets theirs to do with as they please, without the carriers or handset makers know what they’re doing?	GigaOM
Oct 26, 2011	When Secrets Aren’t Safe With Journalists (Op-Ed) QUOTE: operational computer security is still not taught in most journalism schools, and poor data security practices remain widespread in news organizations....Until journalists take their security obligations seriously, it will be safer to leak something to WikiLeaks — or groups like it — than to the mainstream press.	New York Times
Aug 31, 2011	Hackers may have stolen more than 200 SSL certificates: Source say DigiNotar breach generated fraudulent certs for Mozilla, Yahoo and Tor, not just Google QUOTE: Hackers may have obtained more than 200 digital certificates from a Dutch company after breaking into its network, including ones for Mozilla, Yahoo and the Tor project....Security researchers now wonder what else DigiNotar hasn't told users.	Computerworld
Jul 14, 2011	Hacktivism moves from pranks to problems: Far from being 'sophisticated' attacks, LulzSec and Anonymous are run of the mill, say experts. QUOTE: a spate of cyber unrest that started last year with attacks by the group Anonymous on companies that took a stand against Wikileaks, a group dedicated to outing government secrets. While companies and government agencies had derided the efforts as pranks, the success that hactivists have had in penetrating networks has increasingly caused concern.	InfoWorld
Jun 24, 2011	LulzSec Hackers Make Enemies Online QUOTE: After six weeks of attacks — and hundreds of sarcastic Twitter posts — a number of people, offended by the exposure of innocent Internet users’ personal information and irritated by the bravado, are working to stop LulzSec by investigating and revealing its members’ identities to the world, and especially to the F.B.I.	New York Times
Jun 10, 2011	U.S. Senators Want to Shut Down Bitcoins, Currency of Internet Drug Trade QUOTE: The tone of the senators' letter comes off as though they themselves don't know what entity they want to destroy or how to go about it. Bitcoins, by nature and general practice, are harmless; they're merely an Internet-based alternative to traditional federal banks. Silk Road is what the U.S. government is really after.	PC World
May 31, 2011	Pentagon to Consider Cyberattacks Acts of War QUOTE: The Pentagon, trying to create a formal strategy to deter cyberattacks on the United States, plans to issue a new strategy soon declaring that a computer attack from a foreign nation can be considered an act of war that may result in a military response.	New York Times
May 31, 2011	Web Hackings Rattle Media Companies QUOTE: latest examples of what security experts call “reputational attacks” on media companies that publish material that the hackers disagree with. Such companies are particularly vulnerable to such attacks because many of them depend on online advertising and subscription revenue from Web sites that can be upended by the clicks of a hacker’s keyboard — and because unlike other targets, like government entities and defense contractors, they are less likely to have state-of-the-art security to thwart attacks.	New York Times
May 21, 2011	The Privacy Challenge in Online Prize Contests (Bits) QUOTE: The Netflix contest was celebrated as a triumph for the company and as a catalyst for bringing new techniques to data analysis. But in 2010, Netflix was forced to cancel a planned second prize because of privacy concerns....Mr. Vengroff, who called the Netflix contest “tremendously valuable” for elevating the field of data analysis, said the privacy model in his contest was far more secure.	New York Times
May 06, 2011	ID Theft Tool That Sony Isn’t Using QUOTE: A surveillance service is reactive. By the time you get an alert from one, thieves may have already done a lot of damage. A security freeze, also known as a credit freeze, is proactive.	New York Times
Apr 25, 2011	Email users still running amok despite years of warnings: A survey shows that email remains a major source of corporate data leakage, as users continue to break the rules QUOTE: Despite years of regulations, fines, corporate policies, and data leakage prevention tools, companies are still remarkably vulnerable when it comes to employees' inappropriate use of email.	InfoWorld
Mar 21, 2011	Google says Gmail problems designed by Chinese government QUOTE: "There is no technical issue on our side. We have checked extensively," said a Google spokesperson. "This is a government blockage carefully designed to look like the problem is with Gmail…” The word "Jasmine" and terms relating to the anti-government protests in the Middle East can no longer be searched for on the country's microblogs. China has also responded by arresting activists, harassing foreign journalists and deploying large police forces to prevent unrest.	InfoWorld
Feb 16, 2011	New Hacking Tools Pose Bigger Threats to Wi-Fi Users QUOTE: But some simple software lets just about anyone sitting next to you at your local coffee shop watch you browse the Web and even assume your identity online... But a free program called Firesheep, released in October, has made it simple to see what other users of an unsecured Wi-Fi network are doing and then log on as them at the sites they visited.	New York Times
Jan 15, 2011	Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay QUOTE: [experts say that Israel at its Dimona facility] tested the effectiveness of the Stuxnet computer worm, a destructive program that appears to have wiped out roughly a fifth of Iran’s nuclear centrifuges and helped delay, though not destroy, Tehran’s ability to make its first nuclear arms.... Mr. Langner is among the experts who expressed fear that the attack had legitimized a new form of industrial warfare, one to which the United States is also highly vulnerable.	New York Times
Jan 06, 2011	Hackers find new way to cheat on Wall Street -- to everyone's peril QUOTE: 'Side-channel' attack on high-frequency trading networks could net a hacker millions of dollars in just seconds -- and leave everyone else that much poorer	InfoWorld
Jan 06, 2011	Software security: Honesty is the best policy QUOTE: Admitting to flaws in your code can be embarrassing, but OpenBSD's hunt for a backdoor proves the alternative could be much worse	InfoWorld
Nov 05, 2010	What happens when Internet Explorer breaks big-time: Much like a bad antivirus signature file, Microsoft's browser is flagging harmless sites and blocking access to them QUOTE: Much like a bad antivirus signature file, Microsoft's browser is flagging harmless sites and blocking access to them	InfoWorld
Oct 27, 2010	Satisfied with Google's promise to restrain Street View, FTC drops privacy-breach probe QUOTE: The federal government has ended an inquiry into a privacy breach involving Google's Street View service, satisfied with the company's pledge to stop gathering e-mail, passwords and other information from residential WiFi networks as it rolls through neighborhoods.	Washington Post
Jul 05, 2010	To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery (Cheat Sheet) QUOTE: As the eternal temptation of students to cheat has gone high-tech — not just on exams, but also by cutting and pasting from the Internet and sharing of homework online like music files — educators have responded with their own efforts to crack down.	New York Times
Apr 27, 2010	Update: Terry Childs found guilty: The admin who kept San Francisco network passwords now faces a maximum of five years in prison QUOTE: Terry Childs, the San Francisco network administrator who refused to hand over passwords to his boss, was found guilty of one felony count of denying computer services...	InfoWorld
Mar 24, 2010	Law Enforcement Appliance Subverts SSL QUOTE: Normally when a user visits a secure website, such as Bank of America, Gmail, PayPal or eBay, the browser examines the website’s certificate to verify its authenticity. At a recent wiretapping convention however, security researcher Chris Soghoian discovered that a small company was marketing internet spying boxes to the feds designed to intercept those communications, without breaking the encryption, by using forged security certificates, instead of the real ones that websites use to verify secure connections.	Wired
Mar 02, 2010	Fraudsters hone their attacks with spear phishing QUOTE: The next generation of phishing messages, which is still prevalent today, strongly resembles legitimate messages from our banks, cable companies, online electronic payment services, and credit card companies. Everything in the emails looks legitimate, including the graphics that originate from the real company's Website.	InfoWorld
Feb 11, 2010	Who Owns Your PC? New Anti-Piracy Windows 7 Update "Phones Home" to Microsoft Every 90 Days QUOTE: The release of Windows 7 "Update for Microsoft Windows (KB971033)" will change the current activation and anti-piracy behavior of Windows 7 by triggering automatic "phone home" operations over the Internet to Microsoft servers, typically for now at intervals of around 90 days. The purpose? To verify that you're not running a pirated copy of Windows, and to take various actions changing the behavior of your PC if the WAT system believes that you are not now properly authenticated and "genuine"...	Lauren Weinstein's Blog
Oct 22, 2009	To protect your privacy, hand over your data QUOTE: [some experts believe] our digital identities will be more secure if they rest on reams of data on our everyday life culled from cellphones, online transactions and the like.	New Scientist
Oct 21, 2009	Sequoia e-voting code reveals possible FEC rule violations QUOTE: Though still in its initial stages, the review [by the Election Defense Alliance] has already uncovered evidence indicating that the [Sequoia] voting machines are programmed in a manner that falls afoul of rules and guidelines established by the Federal Election Commission.	Ars Technica
Sep 16, 2009	Cybersecurity - or lack thereof - alarms experts QUOTE: Government entities and commercial organizations are failing to protect themselves effectively in the areas in which they are most vulnerable.	San Francisco Chronicle
Sep 10, 2009	Big Brother bosses: Employers spying on staff QUOTE: Companies have long kept a close eye on employees to maintain productivity and guard against theft. But the economic downturn has prompted some to redouble their efforts—and advances in technology have given them the means.	Economist
Sep 05, 2009	Parental control company sells data on what kids say (Safe and Secure) QUOTE: A software product sold to protect children from predators, cyberbullying, and visiting inappropriate Web sites is also collecting information about what the kids are saying, and its publisher is selling that data...	CNET
Aug 25, 2009	Threat Level Privacy, Crime and Security Online Federal Courts Wary of Document-Sharing Plugin QUOTE: The federal court system doesn’t seem to like Harlan Yu, or his fellow merry pranksters, who made a tool to free court documents from an unwieldy computer system that has a nasty habit of charging 8 cents a page for public documents.	Wired
Aug 25, 2009	Unchain the Office Computers! Why corporate IT should let us browse any way we want. QUOTE: So why not lock down workplace computers? Here's why: The restrictions infantilize workers—they foster resentment, reduce morale, lock people into inefficient routines, and, worst of all, they kill our incentives to work productively.	Slate
Aug 21, 2009	VA Reports Detail Misconduct By IT Officials QUOTE: Two reports issued by the inspector general of the Department of Veterans Affairs point to a range of misconduct in the agency's IT department in recent years...	InformationWeek
Aug 07, 2009	Meet “the world’s most annoying Web site:” Social-networking site Tagged.com has become a target of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and the bane of a multitude of customers. (Brainstorm Tech) QUOTE: New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says he plans to sue [Tagged.com] for false advertising, deceptive business, and identity theft.	Fortune
Aug 06, 2009	5 lessons from the dark side of cloud computing QUOTE: While many companies are considering moving applications to the cloud, the security of the third-party services still leaves much to be desired, security experts warned attendees at last week's Black Hat Security Conference.	CIO Magazine
Aug 05, 2009	Responsible Twittering: The company's security issues are well-known, but users also need to be more responsible about what they tweet. QUOTE: While this [network hacking] highlights the risks associated with applications in the cloud, it isn't the only security risk associated with Twitter. In addition there are risks with people spoofing other identities, risks of people disclosing sensitive data and people creating risks by talking about some of their activities.	Forbes
Aug 02, 2009	Our Privacy, Your Business (Defcon) QUOTE: Big business,[privacy expert Andrea] Matwyshyn says, needs to do a much better job of keeping customers abreast of how they're dealing with big security threats.	Forbes
Aug 01, 2009	Halted ’03 Iraq Plan Illustrates U.S. Fear of Cyberwar Risk ("Cyberwar" part 6) QUOTE: the [cyber]attack [on Saddam Hussein's bank accounts and government funds] never got the green light. Bush administration officials worried that the effects would not be limited to Iraq but would instead create worldwide financial havoc... Fears of such collateral damage are at the heart of the debate as the Obama administration and its Pentagon leadership struggle to develop rules and tactics for carrying out attacks in cyberspace.	New York Times
Jul 29, 2009	Details on presidential motorcades, safe house for First Family, leak via P2P: Lawmakers eye bill to ban P2P use on government, contractor networks QUOTE: Tiversa is a Cranberry Township, Pa.-based provider of P2P monitoring services. In the past, it has served up dramatic examples of highly sensitive information found on file-sharing networks.	Computerworld
Jul 21, 2009	New Technology to Make Digital Data Self-Destruct QUOTE: A group of computer scientists at the University of Washington has developed a way to make electronic messages “self destruct” after a certain period of time, like messages in sand lost to the surf.	New York Times
Jul 13, 2009	What CEOs Don't Know About Cybersecurity QUOTE: compared to lower-level execs, CEOs also tend to underestimate the frequency of cyberthreats their organization faces.	Forbes
Jul 06, 2009	Social Security Numbers Deduced From Public Data QUOTE: New research shows that Social Security numbers can be predicted from publicly available birth information with a surprising degree of accuracy.	Wired
Oct 10, 2008	World Bank Under Cyber Siege in 'Unprecedented Crisis' QUOTE: The World Bank Group's computer network — one of the largest repositories of sensitive data about the economies of every nation — has been raided repeatedly by outsiders for more than a year....the bank is trying hard to pretend to outsiders it didn't happen.	Fox News

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