Shrink-wrap and click-wrap agreements are the fine print you see, among other things, when you click through terms and conditions in accessing an online service (e.g., in connection with a cloud computing service) or as part of the installation of a piece of software.
Michael R. Overly | 03 Aug | Read more
Anonymous on Sunday leaked the personal details of 7,000 police officers taken from the Missouri online training database, explaining via a You Tube video that it was retribution for recent raids.
The minister of justice, Brendan O’Connor, warned enterprises to remain vigilant on cybercrime, despite following the charge of a 25-year-old unemployed truck driver for alleged hacks on organisations, including the University of Sydney, Distribute.IT and NBN Co retail customer, Platform Networks.
Hamish Barwick | 28 Jul | Read more
Scotland Yard has arrested a 19 year-old man accused of being the person behind the handle of LulzSec spokesperson “Topiary”.
Prior to June hackers successfully breached “a series” of Australian merchants’ computers and gained customer card data, according to the Australian Federal Police.
Banks are facing more trouble from SpyEye, a piece of malicious software that steals money from people's online bank accounts, according to new research from security vendor Trusteer.
Jeremy Kirk | 27 Jul | Read more
Randy Vickers, the director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT), has resigned from his position without any official explanation for the abrupt move.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 26 Jul | Read more
We've had to wait ten months, but Australia's Attorney-General Robert McLelland has finally released the public report on Cyber Storm III, the five-nation security exercise held 27 to 30 September 2010 and the largest of its kind. Why did he bother?
Stilgherrian | 25 Jul | Read more
Research by Australia's Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) reinforces what information security specialists have been saying forever. Most intrusions could be prevented by paying attention to the basics.
Stilgherrian | 23 Jul | Read more
Just a few weeks after German authorities opened a national Cyber Defense Center in Bonn it was attacked by hackers and now officials are struggling to arrest all of those involved.
Nicolas Zeitler | 22 Jul | Read more
High-profile hacker group LulzSec is claiming that the technology editor of UK newspaper The Guardian has been leaking information to them.
Stilgherrian | 22 Jul | Read more
The Tasmanian government became the victim of a hacker today when a member of the group S4t4n1c_s0uls defaced an email sent to the state's media outlets at 9am.
Stilgherrian | 21 Jul | Read more
In the wake of the UK's News of the World voicemail scandal, the Australian government announced today that it will consult the public on legislating for a right to privacy.
Stilgherrian | 21 Jul | Read more
Underdale, South Australia-based paternity and drug-testing laboratory, Medvet Laboratories, has launched an investigation into an online software error which caused the details of 800 patient's delivery addresses and product details entered into its Web store to be visible online.
Hamish Barwick | 19 Jul | Read more
Romanian law enforcement on Friday arrested more than 100 people alleged to be involved in a multi-million dollar US-Romanian fraud network.
The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime is further entrenched as the key international legal instrument for tackling online crime following the third annual Quintet meeting of Attorneys-General in Sydney this week.
Stilgherrian | 17 Jul | Read more
The Department of Defense says it was hit by a cyberattack by a "foreign intelligence service" that managed to pilfer 24,000 sensitive files.The attack, which occurred in March, was perpetrated by an unnamed "nation state," according to Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III. Lynn who disclosed the breach during a speech Thursday outlining the Pentagon's new cyber strategy for dealing with cyber-breaches.
Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 16 Jul | Read more
The U.S. Department of Defense has announced a set of five guiding strategic principles for better preparing its forces to handle operations to defend the nation in cyberspace.
Robert Lemos | 16 Jul | Read more
Three men behind in a phishing gang police believe stole over £4 million ($6.3 million) from credit cards and online bank accounts in the UK and Ireland have been sentenced to a total of 13.5 years in jail.
John E Dunn | 15 Jul | Read more
A Minnesota man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after he hacked a neighbor's Wi-Fi <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/120909-network-router-cheat-sheet.html?ts0hb&story=rtrcheat">router</a> and then launched a vengeful two-year campaign to frame them with child pornography and threats to government officials, including Vice President Joe Biden.