Gold'en Rant : Why Did The UK Government Fail To Back Gary McKinnon?

Interesting to see a news report about a Police Chief in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, linking the increasing use of t'Internet in his country with a rising crime wave.According to a report in the Tanzanian Guardian newspaper, Said...

The government, bless its cotton socks, has outlined plans to make it illegal to create or distribute so-called hacking tools. Rather than draft a new set of legislation, the gameplan is to make a series of amendments to the...

Finjan conducted a study prompted by the increased volume of attacks coming from China.  The study maps how users PCs are being infected by Trojans distributed from China that then steal data from organizations and details...

News just in from Canada confirms that database disasters are not just confined to UK government agencies, after sensitive patient information has been accessed by persons unknown on a Canadian health agency computer. ...

Reports are coming in that the Dutch government has been trying to `tweak' stories carried on the GPD, the independent Dutch news agency.Dutch newspaper reports quote Marcel van Longen, the editor-in-chief of the GPD, as saying...

The UK Government is considering setting up a new national police unit to tackle computer crime, just two years after the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) was disbanded.The NHTCU was dissolved into the Serious and Organised...

As news that the Chinese military are allegedly responsible for a June hack on the Pentagon's computer systems seeps out, a report in China suggests that Chinese hackers are attacking government Web sites there, mainly because...

There are two interesting articles (unfortunately, in German) which describe an apparent hack on German government PCs, using infected Word and PowerPoint files.From Andreas Marx: This stuff is really interesting, even if the...

Driven by strong financial incentives and using widely available malicious code software packages, “affiliations” are being created that promote infections using a “hosted” model for the malicious code. In this scheme, the...

Interesting to read over the weekend that Taiwan has the second worst Web site security among Asian countries, posting five network-hacking cases per day, second only to China.According to a report in the China Post, research...

Downing Street computers have been forensically examined by police searching for email and other electronic evidence in the cash-for-honours investigation, according to a report by The Sunday Telegraph.The paper claims to have...

A federal grand jury in the US has indicted a Romanian hacker for allegedly hacking his way into more than 150 different computer systems across the US, including NASA and the US Navy.The intrusions and loss of data are reported...

I was intrigued to read that Gary McKinnon, the Scottish hacker accused of knackering the US Defence computer network, now claims to have uncovered evidence of military UFO experiments.McKinnon, who faces extradition to the US on...

The Australian government is reported to have staged a major test of its cyberattack contingency plans for when - and if - the Internet comes under sustained assault by hackers or persons unknown.What's interesting about the...

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) decided to post a number of its proposals online on the Wikipedia Internet open encyclopedia.Unfortunately, DEFRA underestimated the feelings of a growing number of...