This section is devoted to featuring late-breaking cyber security news stories.
Dec. 21, 2007 - Andy Greenberg for Forbes
Apples for the Army
Given Apple's marketing toward the young and the trendy, you wouldn't expect the U.S. Army to be much of a customer. Lieutenant Colonel C.J. Wallington is hoping hackers won't expect it either.
Dec. 18, 2007 - Cisco News
Cisco Issues Inaugural Report on Global Security Landscape
2007 Edition Provides Threat Intelligence in Seven Risk Categories, Predictions for Next Year, and Guidance from Company's Top Security Experts
Dec. 11, 2007 - Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
DNS Attack Could Signal Phishing 2.0
Researchers at Google and the Georgia Institute of Technology are studying a virtually undetectable form of attack that quietly controls where victims go on the Internet.
Dec. 1, 2007 - Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News
Rising Cost of Internet Financial Crimes Tallied
Two newly published studies report an accelerating threat of Internet financial crime, the latest evidence of the growing danger.
The Ponemon Institute reports that the average cost for a business victimized by a data breach rose 30 percent this year to $6.3 million.
Nov. 29, 2007 - Jordan Robertson, AP Technology Writer
China Disputes Cyber Crime Report
SAN FRANCISCO - The Chinese government on Thursday disputed a report labeling it the world's most aggressive offender in probing for holes in other nations' Internet security and encouraging a looming global cyber showdown.
Nov. 28, 2007 - William Jackson, GCN
Cyberattacks in the Present Tense, Estonian Says
Coordinated cyberattacks by and against nation states no longer is an abstract possibility, an Estonian official said Wednesday.
“In Estonia, it was not an imaginary but a real threat that we experienced a few months ago, Defense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo said in a talk at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Nov. 28, 2007 - Jerome R. Corsi, WorldNetDaily.com
Chinese Government Not to Blame for Infected Hard Drives?
One week after a Chinese subcontractor manufacturing computer hard drives for sale in America was discovered to have been placing a Trojan horse on them that would upload users' passwords to a website in Beijing, the manufacturer says it doesn't believe the Chinese government was involved.
Nov. 16, 2007 - Wilson P. Dizard III, GCN
Auditors: One NASA Hack Cost $1.5M
A recent series of intrusions into the Earth Observing System’s networks “cost NASA $1.5 million for incident mitigation and cleanup costs alone,” said the agency’s inspector general, Robert Cobb, in a memo issued Nov. 13.
Nov. 16, 2007 - William Jackson, GCN
Senate Passes Cybercrime Bill
The Senate on Thursday passed a bill amending federal law to directly address online crimes, including identity theft.
Nov. 14, 2007 - Evan Schuman, eWeek.com
TJX's Projected Breach Costs Increase to $216M
Court filings have estimated that the data from some 96 million credit cards was accessed during the incidents.
Nov. 13, 2007 - TheAge.com.au
A Swedish hacker tells how he inifiltrated a global communications network used by scores of embassies over the world, using tools freely available on the internet.
Nov. 12, 2007 - William Jackson, GCN
In a pair of apparently unrelated investigations, state and federal prosecutors have filed charges in the last week against alleged hackers accused of millions of dollars in identification thefts and credit card fraud.
Nov. 10, 2007 - Reuters, C/Net News:
LOS ANGELES--A Los Angeles man on Friday admitted infecting 250,000 computers and stealing the identities of thousands of people by wiretapping their communications and accessing their bank accounts.
Sept. 11, 2007 - Michelle Price, information-age.com
China's Blueprint For Cyber War
The Chinese military, whose aggressive hacking activities have hit the headlines more than once in recent weeks, has allegedly drawn up a detailed blueprint to disable the United States’ aircraft carrier battle fleet via a pre-emptive cyber attack, according to a Pentagon report obtained by the Times newspaper.
Sept. 11, 2007 - Andy Greenberg for Forbes
Cyberspies Target Silent Victims
The U.S. Department of Defense confirmed last week that cyberspies have been sifting through some government computer systems. What wasn't said: The same spies may have been combing through the computer systems of major U.S. defense contractors for more than a year.
June 20, 2007 - Carolyn Shively, Fox News
Computer Hacking Plagues Department of Homeland Security
WASHINGTON — Several government agencies within the Department of Homeland Security admit they are regularly victims of computer break-ins at home and overseas by hackers finding their way into the department's cyber network.
Feb. 14, 2007 - Jaikumar Vijayan
Reverse Hacker Wins $4.3M in Suit Against Sandia Labs
Shawn Carpenter, a network security analyst at Sandia National Laboratories who was fired in January 2005 for his independent probe of a network security breach at the agency, has been awarded $4.3 million by a New Mexico jury for wrongful termination.
