Experts say more software weapon attacks are only a matter of time.
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Tuesday, 19 April 2011 00:01
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Wednesday, 09 December 2009 11:34
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Pressure grows on Obama for action over cyber security
Security officials are urging the US President to appoint a 'cyber tsar'
For the past month or so a curious game has been going on in the world of rumour and uncertainty that passes for the intelligence community. At the heart of it is an attempt to force the US president, Barack Obama, to put cyber security back to the top of his agenda and to usher in increased monitoring of the internet.
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 23:06
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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 millions of those cheap, cheerful and liberating computers out there?
Many might applaud, but among computer security experts, there’s growing concern that those schemes could inadvertently lead to a huge increase in computer crime.
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Thursday, 15 November 2007 01:02
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The Russian Business Network – which some blame for 60% of all internet crime – appears to have gone to ground. But, asks Peter Warren, has it really disappeared?
A curious game of cat and mouse is being played out on the internet, as high-tech hunters close in on a group of cybercriminals known as the Russian Business Network, or in the acronyms so beloved of thriller writers, the RBN.
Indeed, in scenes reminiscent of Cold War hunts for Russian submarines, the chase started a week ago when the RBN – a Russian ISP alleged to be behind much of today’s web crime – slipped its internet moorings in the Baltic coastal city of St Petersburg and made for servers in China.
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Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:51
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Keep your hard drives safe, warn experts, as a survey finds more discarded ones with sensitive information
For the past month or so, Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust has been dealing with a problem that should not have happened – all because a computer hard drive containing sensitive patient information from a trust hospital was sold on the auction site eBay.
Losing disks loaded with confidential data is not a new thing; BT and Glamorgan University’s forensics computing laboratory have been finding such hard drives every year as part of their annual survey designed to highlight the problem of people disposing of disks without destroying the data on them.
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Sunday, 22 July 2007 14:07
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Al Qaeda has turned to online gangsters that are part of the Russian mafia to help it move its money around the web and develop extremist websites.
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Thursday, 10 August 2006 23:11
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“Ensuring data is completely destroyed is a legal requirement”
Erasing data from a computer is not as simple as the manufacturers would have you believe. Just deleting it or reformatting the hard drive does not remove the data, and the secure removal of data about individuals by companies is now a legal requirement.
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