Shoe-print database helps police run down criminals
Police in Florida can tap a database of shoes to identify the footprints that criminals leave behind at the scene of the crime.
Cyberattacks take two Energy labs offline
The Pacific Northwest National Lab and the Thomas Jefferson Laboratory National Accelerator Facility shut down e-mail and outside Internet access after a "sophisticated cyber attack."
Why spear phishing? Cyber crooks are all about the ROI.
Targeted attacks against high-value targets are more costly but produce a better return on investment, so cyber criminals are adopting more boutique business models, according to recent research.
The 25 most dangerous programming errors
The Common Weakness Enumeration project, co-sponsored by DHS, identifies the most common coding mistakes in a list of more than 800 weaknesses.
LulzSec: Not Robin Hood, more like Bonnie and Clyde
The ego-driven hackers haven't demonstrated any significant ability or espoused a particular cause, but they have highlighted the sorry state of security in much of the information infrastructure.
LulzSec exposes Arizona law enforcement documents
The hacker group releases hundreds of e-mails, intell bulletins, images and other files in what it says is a protest of the state's immigration laws.
Teen who could be LulzSec hacker arrested in Britain
The arrest came just as LulzSec and another hacker group, Anonymous, had declared open season on government websites.
LulzSec, Anonymous declare war on government websites
The hacker groups announce a joint effort to promote stealing and leaking classified information, and invite others to join them.
NSA looks to protect defense contractors from cyberattack
The National Security Agency is offering its scanning tools to protect e-mail and other digital communications for major defense contractors, as part of what could be an escalating cyber war.
Ongoing storm of cyberattacks is preventable, experts say
The CIA joins the ranks of recent online victims of attacks that could and should be prevented, as spies, criminals and hacktivists use blended attacks to exploit known vulnerabilities.
Data taken in IMF hack 'political dynamite'
A foreign government is suspected of orchestrating the targeted attack that netted a large quantity of the International Monetary Fund's sensitive data.
Hackers hit Citigroup, steal info on 200,000 card holders
Citigroup belatedly confirmed that over 200,000 Citibank credit card users have had their names, e-mail addresses and account numbers stolen by hackers.
Protect IP Act would create a lot of criminals
Sen. Patrick Leahy's copyright and trademark protection bill would impose draconian remedies and treat the entire Internet infrastructure as accomplices to online pirates and counterfeiters.
Rising tide of cyberattacks threatens all boats
To get some measure of security against the growing number of serious online threats, the user experience might have to change.
Are there any good guys in the BitTorrent-'Hurt Locker' fight?
The people being sued for downloading the film are probably guilty of copyright infringement, but the whole legal action still looks like extortion.
E-mail security as a (not-so-simple) service
As the Veterans Affairs Department steps up efforts to control sensitive data, it adopts a third-party front end to simplify the use of Microsoft Rights Management Services and make it more effective.
To defeat phishing, Energy learns to phish
Filters won't catch every threat, so Energy and other agencies have gone phishing themselves, using training and penetration tests to beef up employees' knowledge of attacks.
New Chinese targets put phishing on the rise
Phishing attacks are down from the all-time high seen in 2009 but were on the rise again in late 2010, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group.
Get through airport security in five seconds?
A new technology unveiled this week could let trusted travelers pass through a short scanning tunnel without shedding clothes and shoes.
RSA confirms its tokens used in Lockheed hack
The complicated attack might have used log-in data obtained via a phishing attack along with algorithm seed numbers taken from RSA to generate new passcodes.
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