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Romanian arrested on Pentagon, NASA hacking charges

N8 February 1st, 2012View/Print PDF Version

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Romanians arrest suspect accused of hacking into NASA and Pentagon servers in the U.S.

Hawaiian Internet-dossier bill is dead… for now

N8 February 1st, 2012View/Print PDF Version

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Rep. John Mizuno says that after “thousands of e-mails,” he’s decided to pull the plug on his data retention bill–but will try again in 2013.

Anonymous takes aim over Europe’s SOPA

N8 January 28th, 2012View/Print PDF Version

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Hackers are attacking sites and looking to expose information on European officials in response to the signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. ACTA critics say it’s even worse than the Stop Online Piracy Act floated in the U.S.

Microsoft’s Kelihos botnet suspect says he’s innocent

N8 January 28th, 2012View/Print PDF Version

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St. Petersburg, Russia-based Andrey N. Sabelnikov says he is “absolutely not guilty” of participating in the creation of the huge spam network that Microsoft shut down last September.

Facebook denies Anonymous ‘claims’ of takedown

N8 January 26th, 2012View/Print PDF Version

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A Twitter feed from an Anonymous account claims it caused Facebook problems, with some intermittent outage. Facebook says it was nothing of the sort.

DHS disputes memo on purported railway computer breach

N8 January 26th, 2012View/Print PDF Version

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Officials with the Department of Homeland Security and railroad industry say there was no targeted attack on a railway company.

Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops

N8 January 24th, 2012View/Print PDF Version

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Colorado federal judge gives Ramona Fricosu until February 21 to decrypt her PGP Desktop-encrypted Toshiba laptop–or face the consequences.

Operation Ghost Click DNS servers to shut down in March

N8 January 24th, 2012View/Print PDF Version

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The DNSChanger malware servers that were converted by the FBI’s Operation Ghost Click to function legitimately will be shut down in March, possibly leaving some systems unable to access the Internet.

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