At some point in the near future a satellite orbiting the Earth will gently open a solar array like an unfolding flower and power from the Sun will pour down from it to both the Earth and the Moon, science fiction?
No , not one bit. Read More …
Gary McKinnon, the British hacker at the heart of an extradition battle with the US Government was not alone and was the most junior member of a hacking group largely ignored by the authorities.
An investigation by Future intelligence has been told that McKinnon, who faces a potential 60 year jail sentence if he is handed over to the US, was not a lone hacker roving through US computer systems but was instead the most junior member of an informal five-strong group that regularly exchanged information on US systems. Read More …
Many of the recent embarrassing losses of data from US computer systems are due to poor monitoring and computer security and a lack of awareness of the sheer scale of the network, according to experts.
Failings that have allowed the copying of an entire archive in the recent Wikileaks case and forays by groups as sinister and highly motivated as the Chinese and as naïve as Gary McKinnon. Read More …
Investigation finds defence data on second-hand photo-copier
Personal locational data - where you are - the technology industry's new goldmine
City business races the Games for power - Power demand in the UK's financial centre already outstrips supply, but the Olympics will get priority in the energy infrastructure
UK business frustrated by the lack of cyber bobbies
The Government's policy on cybercrime is in tatters and the party that promised to make the UK the safest place in the world to do E-Business is looking helpless.
Hackers are now targetting top executives working from home in a bid to break into bank computers
Yahoo squares up to Google for lucrative internet advertising market
The hidden business costs of ID cards
Barclays call centres bound for India
UK firms revolt over faulty software
Free broadband may be on the cards but with manacles attached
Itemised bills for fixed lines and big mobile phone charges could soon be consigned to history, but our future communications will still come at a price, reports Peter Warren. In days gone by, the telephone was a thing of awe: an object admired for its usefulness but feared for its apparently limitless ability to cost [...]
Asset stripping, the thumb drive way
Buy a hard drive and get a company for free - FI's investigation proves how easy it is to get hold of an organisation's secrets for a knock down price
Nicknamed Solo but a junior member of a hacking group
Forget the scapegoating of Assange, does the Embassy Cables episode really show a Big Government passing the buck on its inability to handle complex computer systems and the modern era?
The US may have been caught in writing but there are many claims that the UK has bugged the United Nations
Here's looking at you - should the Big Society take a long hard look at itself and give the surveillance cameras back to the people.
Kremlin moves on cybercrime - could the end be in sight?
Stuxnet could have destroyed a nuclear power station, the cargo bomb could have destroyed a plane yet the media gave more coverage to the plane bomb - why?
James Bond's old intelligence department is to be re-formed
Future cyber attacks could trigger a real world military response
Barack Obama made an initial review of US cyber security, but pressure is growing for the president to take further action
The state has had enough and now intends to wage war on hackers
Hard drive containing missile system data sold online
Initiatives such as the OLPC and Classmate could mean an explosion in botnets in the developing world, warn security experts. Peter Warren reports. What if the plans to spread low-cost One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and Intel Classmate computers to the developing world work? What if in a few years there are hundreds of [...]
Now you see it, now you don't. Terrorists are leaving messages in dormant email accounts
Al Quaeda looking to buy in internet expertise
UK business frustrated by the lack of cyber bobbies
