What's New in Security News (June 2009)
U.S. and Russia Differ on a Treaty for Cyberspace
By John Markoff and Andrew E. Kramer
The United States and Russia are locked in a fundamental
dispute over how to counter the growing threat of cyberwar attacks that could
wreak havoc on computer systems and the Internet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/world/28cyber.html?_r=4

US accidentally posts list of nuclear sites
By Eileen Sullivan and H. Josef Hebert
The government accidentally posted on the Internet a list
of government and civilian nuclear facilities and their activities in the United
States, but US officials said yesterday the posting included no information that
compromised national security.
http://www.boston.com/

DHS to create online dialogue for security review
By John S. Monroe
The Homeland Security Department plans to create an online
dialogue with security and policy experts nationwide to help officials prepare
its first Quadrennial Homeland Security Review.
http://fcw.com/articles/2009/06/02/homeland-security-national-dialogue.aspx

May 2009
Anti-U.S. Hackers Infiltrate Army Servers
By Paul McDougall
A known computer hacking clan with anti-American leanings
has successfully broken into at least two sensitive Web servers maintained by
the U.S. Army, InformationWeek has learned exclusively.
http://www.informationweek.com

Information-sharing platform hacked
By Ben Bain
The Homeland Security Department’s platform for sharing
sensitive but unclassified data with state and local authorities was hacked
recently, a DHS official has confirmed
http://fcw.com/Articles/2009/05/13/Web-DHS-HSIN-intrusion-hack.aspx

Glossy Internet Magazine Targets Americans for Jihad Training
By Eric Shawn
The cover of "Jihad Recollections," a magazine about Al
Qaeda that impels Americans to join in jihad. It's been likened to Al Qaeda's
"Vanity Fair," a new English-language Internet magazine called "Jihad
Recollections" that focuses on the terrorist group, its founder, Usama Bin
Laden, and how to commit jihad. It also predicts the demise of the United
States.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518611,00.html

IG: Air traffic control system vulnerable to cyberattack
By Kathleen Hickey
The Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control
system is vulnerable to cyberattacks via Web applications that support the
system, according to a new report released by the Transportation Department’s
Office of Inspector General (OIG).
http://gcn.com/articles/2009/05/06/air-traffic-control-vulnerabilities.aspx

April 2009
Controversial Einstein systems to inspect U.S. government's Internet traffic
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan
The largest U.S. carriers -- including AT&T, Qwest and
Sprint -- are deploying special-purpose, intrusion-detection systems dubbed
Einstein boxes in their networks as part of an 18-month-old effort to tighten
security on federal networks.
http://www.networkworld.com/

Documents: FBI Spyware Has Been Snaring Extortionists, Hackers for Years
By Kevin Poulsen
A sophisticated FBI-produced spyware program has played a
crucial behind-the-scenes role in federal investigations into extortion plots,
terrorist threats and hacker attacks in cases stretching back at least seven
years, newly declassified documents show.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/fbi-spyware-pro/

New Military Command Planned to Improve U.S. Cybersecurity
By Siobhan Gorman and Yochi Dreazen
The Obama administration plans to create a new military
command to coordinate the defense of Pentagon computer networks and improve U.S.
offensive capabilities in cyberwarfare, according to current and former
officials familiar with the plans.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124035738674441033.html

Britain in the dock over secret tracking of internet accounts
By Alexi Mostrous & David Charter
Fears that Britain is slipping into a surveillance society
have been heightened by Brussels initiating legal action after declaring that UK
laws guaranteeing data protection were “structurally flawed” and well below the
European standard.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6097384.ece

Report: Cyberspace remains a dangerous frontier
By William Jackson
Rise in botnet activity in 2008 reverses gains made from
aggressive law enforcement in 2007. The number of compromised computers actively
being used in botnets to launch attacks on any given day last year was about
75,000, according to a new report on Internet threats from security firm
Symantec Corp.
http://gcn.com/articles/2009/04/14/internet-threat-report.aspx

Report: Cyberwarriors probing US electrical grid
By Joel Hruska
Security officials from both past and current US
administrations have owned up to the detection of foreign intrusions into our
electrical and water infrastructures, but insist there's been no evidence that
an attack has been attempted. The size of the risk such intrusions pose,
however, is under debate.
http://arstechnica.com

March 2009
Terrorism Recruiting Manual Worries Authorities
By Dina Temple-Raston
For months now, counterterrorism officials have seen signs
that al-Qaida has been looking for new and innovative ways to recruit
terrorists, including a new manual that has surfaced on the Internet.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102193723&ft=1&f=1004

NORAD move raises security concerns
By Michael de Yoanna
NORAD, the high-tech facility responsible for monitoring
the skies over North America, faces continuing security problems at its new
location inside an office building on an air base here.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/27/norad-move-raises-concerns/

China accused over global computer spy ring
By Dan Glaister
An enormous electronic espionage programme run from servers
in China has been used to spy on computers in more than 100 countries, according
to two reports published at the weekend.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/30/china-dalai-lama-spying-computers

NSA joining social network for intelligence analysts
By David Wood
The super-secret National Security Agency, traditionally
reluctant to share its code-breaking secrets, is joining a new, highly
classified social network that links its analysts for the first time with
thousands of colleagues at other U.S. intelligence agencies.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/technology/bal-te.md.spybook04mar04,0,2709017.story

Cybersecurity Chief Resigns
By Siobhan Gorman
The government's coordinator for cybersecurity programs has
quit, criticizing what he described as the National Security Agency's grip on
cybersecurity. Rod Beckstrom, a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur, said in his
resignation letter that the NSA's central role in cybersecurity is "a bad
strategy" because it is important to have a civilian agency taking a key role in
the issue. The NSA is part of the Department of Defense.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123638468860758145.html

February 2009
FAA breach heightens cybersecurity concerns
By Mary Mosquera
The Federal Aviation Administration was doing such a good
job at protecting data in its computer systems that the Office of Management and
Budget chose it in January to be one of four agencies to guide other federal
agencies in their cybersecurity efforts. Just a month later, FAA officials had
to admit that hackers breached one of the agency’s servers, stealing 48 files.
Two of the files contained information on 45,000 current and former FAA
employees, including sensitive information that could potentially make them
vulnerable to identity theft.
http://fcw.com/articles/2009/02/23/faa-data-breach.aspx?s=fcwdaily_230209

US feds pull travel site offline after hacker break-in
By Dan Goodin
A travel reservations website used by US government
agencies remains offline more than a week after it was infected with malware
that tried to install malicious code on the PCs of those who visited the site.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/19/govtrip_remains_down/

DOE seeks new approach to cybersecurity
By William Jackson
Reactive approaches to information security have not kept
pace with the rapidly evolving information technology environment, and a panel
of experts examining the state of security at the Energy Department has
recommended a fundamentally different approach.
http://gcn.com/articles/2009/02/12/doe-cyber-security-report.aspx?s=gcndaily_170209

Los Alamos National Lab missing 67 computers
By Jaikumar Vijayan
New Mexico-based Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the
nation's leading nuclear weapons lab, once again finds itself the focus of
concerns about potentially serious cybersecurity lapses.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9127862

Mexico to fingerprint phone users in crime fight
By Tomas Sarmiento and Cynthia Osterman
Mexico will start a national register of mobile phone users
that will include fingerprinting all customers in an effort to catch criminals
who use the devices to extort money and negotiate kidnapping ransoms.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKN09529514

Not Everyone Is Cheering as Wi-Fi Takes to the Air
By Micheline Maynard
For all the annoyance of being crammed into an aluminum
tube at 35,000 feet with a bunch of strangers, air travel has offered one
benefit: the ability to tell bosses and colleagues, “I’ll be on a flight, so you
won’t be able to reach me.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/business/07plane.html?_r=2

Electronics Firm Faces FTC Lawsuit Following Multiple Hacks
By Tim Wilson
Warning to security professionals: If you don't do your job
right, then it might not only be a firing offense -- it might be a federal
offense.
http://www.darkreading.com/

January 2009
New York Police Fight With U.S. on Surveillance
By David Johnston and William K. Rashbaum
An effort by the New York Police Department to get broader
latitude to eavesdrop on terrorism suspects has run into sharp resistance from
the Justice Department in a bitter struggle that has left the police
commissioner and the attorney general accusing each other of putting the public
at risk.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/washington/20terror.html

UK identities sold for £80 online
By Dominic Casciani
Internet fraudsters sell complete financial identities for
just £80, according to an online safety group. The details packaged and sold
online include names, addresses, passport numbers and confidential financial
data such as credit card numbers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7732569.stm

China's hackers stealing US defence secrets, says congressional panel
By Owen Bowcott
China is stealing sensitive information from American
computer networks and stepping up its online espionage, according to a US
congressional panel.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/20/america-china-hacking-security-obama

Worm Infects Millions of Computers Worldwide
By John Markoff
A new digital plague has hit the Internet, infecting
millions of personal and business computers in what seems to be the first step
of a multistage attack. The world’s leading computer security experts do not yet
know who programmed the infection, or what the next stage will be.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/technology/internet/23worm.html

Systems for critical industries wide open to cyberattacks
By Jill R. Aitoro
The networks used to manage the industries that the nation
relies on, such as energy, transportation and chemicals, are vulnerable to
cyberattacks, according to a survey of executives that operate critical
infrastructure.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20081111_2143.php?zone=itsecurity

MI5: Internet phone services a risk to national security
By
Leo King
Internet telephone services pose a serious threat to
Britain's security, the head of MI5 said. The danger with online calls, said spy
chief Jonathan Evans, was that they do not result in telephone bills, which are
key evidence documents in prosecutions. This meant it would be much easier for
terrorists to make the calls and eventually escape prosecution if they are tried
for criminal offenses.
http://www.computerworld.com/

Cyber attacks ranked 3rd danger behind nuclear war
By Staff Reporter
Cyber attacks pose the greatest threat to the United States
after nuclear war and weapons of mass destruction - and they are increasingly
hard to prevent, FBI experts say.
http://www.thearynews.com/english/newsdetail.asp?nid=19868

Cops look to jam cell phones if terror strikes
By Staff Reporter
The NYPD is examining ways to shut down cell phone calls in
and around future hostage-taking scenarios without also shutting down the
communications devices of the police trying to rescue them, Commissioner Raymond
Kelly said at a congressional hearing yesterday.
http://www.newsday.com/

December 2008
Researchers Hack Internet Security Infrastructure, International Team Discovers
Way to Mimic Digital Identity
By Brian Krebs
An international team of computer security researchers
demonstrated today a key weakness in the Internet infrastructure that could let
hackers launch virtually undetectable attacks aimed at intercepting secured
online communications when consumers visit bank and e-commerce Web sites.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/12/30/ST2008123001136.html

Justice IG finds IT security vulnerabilities
By
Ben Bain
Despite getting high marks for its compliance with computer
security legislation, the Justice Department had major systemic information
technology vulnerabilities and did not fully implement policies and procedures
meant to increase IT security, according to an audit by the department’s
inspector general.
http://www.fcw.com/online/news/154700-1.html?type=pf

Hacking US is Big Business in Russia
By Staff Reporter
MOSCOW -- Not long ago, the simple, anonymous thrill of
exposing chinks in American software was enough of a payoff for a Russian
hacker. Today it's cash. And almost all the targets are in the United States and
Europe, where Russia's notorious hackers pilfer online bank accounts, swipe
social security numbers, steal credit card data and peek at e-mail log-ins and
passwords as part of what some estimate to be a $100 billion-a-year global
cyber-crime business.
http://www.military.com/news/article/hacking-us-is-big-business-in-russia.html

SF engineer to stand trial in hijacked network
By
Steven Musil
A network administrator will stand trial for allegedly
hijacking the network he designed and maintained for the city of San Francisco.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10129313-83.html?tag=mncol;title

U.S. Is Losing Global Cyberwar, Commission Says
By Keith Epstein
The U.S. faces a cybersecurity threat of such magnitude
that the next President should move quickly to create a Center for Cybersecurity
Operations and appoint a special White House advisor to oversee it. Those are
among the recommendations in a 44-page report by the U.S. Commission on
Cybersecurity, a version of which will be made public today. The bipartisan
panel includes executives, high-ranking military officers and intelligence
officials, leading specialists in computer security, and two members of
Congress.
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/dec2008/db2008127_817606.htm

November 2008
China's hackers stealing US defence secrets, says congressional panel
By
Owen Bowcott
China is stealing sensitive information from American
computer networks and stepping up its online espionage, according to a US
congressional panel.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/20/america-china-hacking-security-obama

Study: Critical infrastructure often under cyberattack
By
Robert McMillan
Computer systems that run the world's critical
infrastructure are not as secure as they should be, according to a new survey.
http://www.computerworld.com/

NSA's smart phone could become government issue
By
Bob Brewin
A new mobile phone specifically designed for the National
Security Agency looks like any other commercial smart phone, with a decent-size
screen for Web browsing and a full keyboard for data entry.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20081107_9172.php

State Department, VA disclose two new data breaches
By
Jaikumar Vijayan
Two federal agencies that have already drawn attention this
year for data security breaches are back in the spotlight again -- for the same
reason. One of them is the U.S. Department of State, which last week disclosed
that it had notified close to 400 individuals that the data they had submitted
with their passport applications had been stolen in a database intrusion. And
last Saturday, the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs (VA) said that one of
its medical centers in Oregon had accidentally posted personal data on about
1,600 patients on its public Web site.
http://www.computerworld.com/

Cyber-terrorism will be punishable by death
By Tahir Niaz
President Asif Ali Zardari promulgated the Prevention of
Electronic Crimes Ordinance on Thursday, making cyber-terrorism punishable with
death or imprisonment for life.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/

October 2008
New law brings 911 services into Internet Age
By
William Jackson
FCC issues rules implementing 911 requirements for wireless
VOIP. The Federal Communications Commission issued regulations this week for
voice-over-IP service providers to offer Enhanced 911 emergency call services to
all customers. The rules were required under the New and Emerging Technologies
911 Improvement Act of 2008, which was signed into law in July.
http://www.gcn.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=gcn_daily&story.id=47432

Spy Fears: Twitter Terrorists, Cell Phone Jihadists
By
Noah Shachtman
Could Twitter become terrorists' newest killer app? A draft
Army intelligence report, making its way through spy circles, thinks the
miniature messaging software could be used as an effective tool for coordinating
militant attacks.
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/terrorist-cell.html

U.S. spent $4 billion more on spying in fiscal '08 than '07
By David Wood
The U.S. spent $4 billion more on spying in the fiscal year
ending Sept. 30 than during the previous year, the director of national
intelligence said yesterday.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.spy29oct29,0,1077309.story

DOD: Controlled but unclassified data is leaking
By Alice Lipowicz
Controlled but unclassified Defense Department information
is leaking to the public from thousands of Web sites sponsored by DOD, according
to a recent memo by DOD Chief Information Officer John Grimes.
http://www.fcw.com/online/news/154195-1.html

Al-Qaeda Web Forums Abruptly Taken Offline
By
Ellen Knickmeyer
Four of the five main online forums that al-Qaeda's media
wing uses to distribute statements by Osama bin Laden and other extremists have
been disabled since mid-September, monitors of the Web sites say.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Keyboard sniffers to steal data
By Staff Reporter
The attacks were shown to work at a distance of 20 metres.
Computer criminals could soon be eavesdropping on what you type by analysing the
electromagnetic signals produced by every key press. By analysing the signals
produced by keystrokes, Swiss researchers have reproduced what a target typed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7681534.stm

Supreme Court takes on 'aggravated' identity theft
By
Bill Mears
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to examine whether
prosecutors can aggressively prosecute illegal immigrants for identity theft if
they didn't know the documents they were given belonged to someone else.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/20/scotus.immigrants.idtheft/

MoD breach: Data goes missing from "secure location"
By Tom Espiner
IT contractor EDS has lost a hard drive containing Ministry
of Defence data. According to press reports, the drive contained sensitive
information on approximately 100,000 armed-forces personnel, plus 600,000
potential recruits.
http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39301020,00.htm

Panel Says Data Mining for Terrorists is an Exercise in Futility
By
Jaikumar Vijayan
The kind of pattern-seeking data mining and behavioral
surveillance technologies that are being used by several federal agencies to
identify potential terrorists are far too unreliable to be of any real value,
according to a report issued by the National Research Council.
http://www.csoonline.com/

NIST publishes security guidance for wireless links, industrial controls
By
William Jackson
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has
released three information security documents in its 800 series of special
publications; two final guidelines on information security assessment and
Bluetooth security, and a draft of guidelines for security industrial control
systems.
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/47273-1.html

Employees, not hackers, cause most corporate data loss
By
Joel Hruska
Earlier this summer, we covered a report suggesting that
the majority of corporate data loss comes from risky employee actions and
systemic failures at the corporate level when it comes to implementing
comprehensive IT security policies. Now, a new study from Compuware reports new
information that supports Trend Micro's conclusions from back in July. The
unsung heroes in the IT department, it turns out, may be doing a better job
stopping outside hackers than they get credit for.
http://arstechnica.com/

Encountering Al Qaeda On The Web
By Dani Reshef
The cyberspace was a main tool for the Global Jihad in
indoctrination, communication, guidance, propaganda and recruiting of young
Muslims to the cause of Jihad. Footage of successful terror attacks all over the
world, hostages begging for their life, beheading of infidels, distributing of
alleged atrocities committed by infidels are posted on regular basis on the web.
http://www.rightsidenews.com/

September 2008
YouTube bans terrorism training videos
By
Staff Reporter
Terrorist training videos will be banned from appearing on
YouTube, under revised new guidelines being implemented by the popular
video-sharing site. The Google-owned portal will ban footage that advertises
terrorism or extremist causes and supporters of the change hope it will blunt
al-Qaeda's strong media online campaign.
http://news.theage.com.au/

Hackers block Qaeda’s 9/11 terror on tape
By Pramit Pal Chaudhuri
Hackers prevented Al Qaeda from releasing a videotape to
mark the seventh anniversary of 9/11. Al Qaeda has traditionally issued a video
or audiotape by either Osama bin Laden or Ayman al Zawahiri, the terror
network’s two leaders, to mark their massive terrorist attack on the US.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/

Exclusive: Widespread cell phone location snooping by NSA?
By
Chris Soghoian
If you thought that the National Security Agency's
warrantless wiretapping was limited to AT&T, Verizon and Sprint, think again.
http://news.cnet.com

IRS finds unauthorized Web servers connected to its networks
By Jill Aitoro
The Internal Revenue Service found more than 1,000
unauthorized Web servers connected to its networks, leaving the agency's systems
open to hackers, according to a report released on Thursday by the IRS inspector
general.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20080904_3324.php

Tracking the Terrorists Online
By
Yassin Musharbash
For years, al-Qaida and other terror groups have set up
shop in the Internet. Those who track them have covertly followed. The companies
SITE and IntelCenter have penetrated even deeper into the terror Web than most
intelligence agencies.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,575276,00.html

Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.
By John Markoff
The era of the American Internet is ending. Invented by
American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced
around the globe. During the network’s first three decades, most Internet
traffic flowed through the United States. In many cases, data sent between two
locations within a given country also passed through the United States.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/30pipes.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

August 2008
Gov't Warns Against Chinese Cyber-Spys
By John Markoff
U.S. intelligence officials issued a strong warning
Thursday that Americans traveling overseas, particularly visitors to the
Olympics in China, face a serious risk of having sensitive information stolen,
reports CBS News correspondent Bob Orr. The travel alert is blunt: "All
information you send electronically - by fax machine, personal digital assistant
(PDA), computer or telephone - can be intercepted."
http://cbs2chicago.com/national/china.olympics.pda.2.790453.html

Caucasus foes fight cyber war
By
Neil Arun
Armed with computers, unseen ranks of hackers are fanning
conflict in the Caucasus. Internet users in Russia and Georgia have attacked
vital websites in each other's countries, in a virtual echo of battles being
fought on the ground by troops and tanks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7559850.stm

Cyberspace Barrage Preceded Russian Invasion of Georgia
By John Markoff
Weeks before physical bombs started falling on Georgia, a
security researcher in suburban Massachusetts was watching an attack against the
country in cyberspace.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/technology/13cyber.html?em

11 charged in theft of 41 million card numbers
By Brad Stone
Federal prosecutors have charged 11 people with stealing more than 41 million
credit and debit card numbers, cracking what officials said on Tuesday appeared
to be the largest hacking and identity theft ring ever exposed.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/06/business/06theft.php

July 2008
Bush Administration Announces Restructuring of Intelligence Agencies
By
Joby Warrick
The Bush administration today announced a restructuring of the nation's
intelligence-gathering apparatus, approving new guidelines that bolster the
authority of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) as the
leader of the nation's 16 spy agencies.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/31/AR2008073101655.html

Secret Defense Data Lost on UK Government USBs
By
James Rogers
The U.K.’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has admitted that 121 USB sticks, including
five containing secret information, have been lost or stolen since 2004, in the
British government’s latest embarrassing data breach .
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=159479&WT.svl=news1_5

IG: DHS has problems with top secret data
By
Alice Lipowicz
The Homeland Security Department still has problems handling classified top
secret intelligence information, according to a new report from the department’s
Office of the Inspector General.
http://www.fcw.com/online/news/153292-1.html

Terrorism and the Internet
By Aaron Sudholt
As the Internet continues to dominate the world over, the nation's military is
considering how to better handle threats posed by attacks through it.
http://stclairjournal.stltoday.com/articles/2008/07/26/news/sj2tn20080726-0730fhj-technet.ii1.txt

Beijing's red spider's web
By
Dan Verton
The fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War had a profound impact
not only on how security and intelligence professionals viewed the world of
espionage but also on the motivations of the players and the targets of their
espionage activities.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/JG22Ad01.html

Firms Tackle Security Flaw In Web Addressing System
By Christopher Rhoads
A computer researcher revealed a fundamental flaw in the Internet's addressing
system, necessitating a massive Internet security upgrade primarily for
businesses and service providers, according to a division of the Department of
Homeland Security.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121557348238938533.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Cyberspace becoming a legal battleground
By
Adrian McCoy
It could only happen in cyberspace. Someone commits a crime and posts the
evidence online for the world to see.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08187/894946-96.stm

The Citizen Watchdogs of Web 2.0
By
Jeremy Caplan
Buzz From John Edwards' haircut to Hillary Clinton's tear, Web videos have
played a well-publicized role in generating buzz about this year's presidential
candidates. As influential as those viral clips may be, though, a broader role
is arising for so-called voter-generated content. Civic-minded techies are
increasingly bringing Web 2.0 to political activism, developing new watchdog
tools that open up congressional machinery for ordinary citizens to scrutinize
and critique.
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1819187,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

Judge Orders Google to Turn Over YouTube Records
By Miguel Helft
A federal judge in New York has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom a database
linking users of YouTube, the Web’s largest video site by far, with every clip
they have watched there.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/technology/04youtube.html?hp

Public institutions' Web sites target of cyber-attacks
By
The Yomiuri Shimbun
Since March, many Web sites of public institutions such as municipal governments
have been altered by cyber-attacks using the method called SQL injection, it has
been learned. The attacks are conducted ingeniously by hacking into the server
that manages the Web site and setting up a program that infects the site with
computer viruses.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080702TDY03305.htm

June 2008
Hackers Hijack Sites of Internet Organizations
By
Stefanie Hoffman
Turkish hackers broke into two of the most established international Websites
that oversee and regulate the Internet in order to reroute visitors to a rogue
domain, the New York Times reported Friday.
http://www.crn.com/security/208801497

Cyber-terrorism legislation approved by State Senate
By Eric Gross
Legislation sponsored by State Senator Vincent Leibell that cracks down on
computer transgression by creating the new crimes of cyber-terrorism, computer
intrusion and the use of a minor in the commission of a computer offense has
been approved in the New York State Senate.
http://www.zwire.com

Lloyd's faces up to threat of e-crime
By Neon Kelly
The growing trend of organised gangs turning to e-crime has been confirmed by
Lloyd’s of London, whose networks have been bombarded by structured and
competent attacks.
http://www.whatpc.co.uk/computing/analysis/2219887/lloyd-faces-threat-crime

Congress Reaches Deal on Wiretapping Bill
By
Eric Lichtblau
After months of wrangling, Democratic and Republican leaders reached a deal
Thursday that would re-write the rules for the government’s wiretapping powers,
and would provide what amounts to limited immunity to the telephone companies
that took part in President Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping program after the
Sept. 11 attacks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/washington/20fisacnd.html?hp

Groups ask court to reverse ruling, limit laptop searches at border
By Gautham Nagesh
Two advocacy groups are pressing a federal appeals court to rule that government
officials at U.S. borders are not allowed to search, download or seize
information on travelers’ laptop computers without reasonable suspicion.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20080613_2643.php?zone=itsecurity

Data breaches usually come from company soft spots, study finds
By
Joseph Menn
Most thefts of sensitive information from corporations occur when the victimized
companies don't know what data they have, where they have it or who has access
to it, according to a study released Wednesday by Verizon Communications Inc.
http://www.latimes.com/la-fi-breaches11-2008jun11,0,6127882.story

Cyber criminals overseas steal U.S. electronic health records
By Bob Brewin
In 2004, when Bush administration officials unveiled a project to provide every
American with an electronic health record by 2014, they pledged to put privacy
and security first. But the discovery in April of stolen health records
containing sensitive medical information about U.S. patients on a computer
server in Malaysia controlled by cyber criminals indicates such records so far
do not pass the privacy and security test.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20080613_6536.php?zone=ngtoday

Security hole in software exposes world's utilities to Net attacks
By
Jordan Robertson
Attackers could gain control of water treatment plants, natural gas pipelines
and other critical utilities because of a vulnerability in the software that
runs some of those facilities, security researchers reported Wednesday.
http://www.usatoday.com

NJ congressman's computer hacked from China
By
Robert Cohen
A New Jersey congressman says he is one of at least three lawmakers whose
computers have been hacked from China, apparently in search of information about
political dissidents and human rights legislation.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/06/nj_congressmans_computer_hacke.html

N.Y. attorney general forces ISPs to curb Usenet access
By Declan McCullagh
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday that Verizon
Communications, Time Warner Cable, and Sprint would "shut down major sources of
online child pornography."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9964895-38.html

The evolution of national security
By Andrew B. Einhorn
Last week, the White House issued a new directive providing instructions for
standardizing the methods employed by federal agencies to collect, maintain and
share biometric data such as fingerprints and other physiological or behavioral
characteristics of suspected terrorists.
http://ohmygov.com/blogs/general_news/archive/2008/06/10/white-house-issues-order-to-share-terrorist-biometric-data.aspx

Taking a byte into crime
By
Editorial Staff
From the beginning, we opposed creation of a KBI -- a Kentucky Bureau of
Investigation. We thought that, in the hands of the wrong attorney general, it
could become a political dark arts squad, assigned to partisan mischief. The
good news is that Kentucky's new attorney general, Jack Conway, has renamed the
thing and given it needed focus. It's now his Department of Criminal
Investigations, in which he has created a Cybercrimes Division to pursue
wrongdoers on the Internet, taking responsibility for evidence that is found in
computer and cell phone memory and helping parents protect youngsters from
Internet predators.
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080610/OPINION01/806100348

NY Bank ‘loses’ 4.5M unencrypted customer records
By
Michael Krigsman
In yet another unbelievable story of data irresponsibility, the Bank of New York
(BNY) Mellon lost two sets of unencrypted backup tapes containing private data
belonging to 4.5 million individuals. Third-party vendors misplaced the tapes
during transport to off-site locations. According to the bank, the tapes
“included shareowner and plan participant account information, such as name,
mailing address, Social Security number, and transaction activity.”
http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=603&tag=nl.e550

May 2008
Comcast.net site is hacked briefly
By Associated Press Staff
Hackers took over Comcast Corp.'s Web portal
for several hours overnight, denying 14.1 million subscribers access to the
cable company's site for e-mail, news and technical support.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/technology/sns-ap-tec-comcast-web-hack,0,3610680.story

Chinese hackers pose serious danger to U.S. computer networks
By Shane Harris
Computer hackers in China, including those
working on behalf of the Chinese government and military, have penetrated deeply
into the information systems of U.S. companies and government agencies, stolen
proprietary information from American executives in advance of their business
meetings in China, and, in a few cases, gained access to electric power plants
in the United States, possibly triggering two recent and widespread blackouts in
Florida and the Northeast, according to U.S. government officials and
computer-security experts.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=40112&dcn=e_gvet

Cyber Terrorism Threat Growing, EU Agency Says
By Jennifer LeClaire
The threat of cyber terrorism is growing, the
European Network and Information Security Agency has warned. ENISA urged more
European Union investments in security to avoid a "digital 9/11." Andrea Pirotti,
executive director of ENISA, urged the EU to require reporting on security
breaches and more cooperation among member states.
http://www.newsfactor.com/news/EU-Warned-of-Growing-Cyber-Threat/story.xhtml?story_id=1230048OPVML

Hackers make way for criminals in cyberspace
By Huw Jones
Attacking the European Union's Internet
backbone is now the preserve of organised crime, not young hackers out to prove
a point, the head of the bloc's Web security body said on Tuesday. Andrea
Pirotti, executive director of the European Network and Information Security
Agency (ENISA), said public authorities have been able to hold their own in the
contest -- so far.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7542606

FBI releases details of expansive data-sharing program
By Andrew Noyes
The FBI released details this week about a
little-known information-sharing initiative known as N-DEx, or the Law
Enforcement National Data Exchange, which lets agents search and analyze crime
data on a secure Web site to help connect the dots between people, places and
events.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=39839&sid=60

Homeland Security, FBI must reveal whether detained travelers are on watch list,
court order says
By Antonio Olivo
After years of being detained and interrogated
for hours by federal agents each time he returned from a trip abroad, Chicago
entrepreneur Akif Rahman could finally know whether his name is on a government
watch list for suspected terrorists, his attorneys said Wednesday.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-watchlist-24-apr24,0,7847146.story

Home Office plans to create 'Big brother' database for phones calls, emails and
web use
By Andy Bloxham
The Home Office will create a database to
store the details of every phone call made, every email sent and every web page
visited by British citizens in the previous year under plans currently under
discussion, it has emerged. The Government wants to create the system to fight
terrorism and crime. The police and security services believe it will make it
easier to access important data as communications become more complex.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk

Analysis: Feds bust Romanian cyber-ring
By Shaun Waterman
U.S. indictments unsealed this week charge 38
people with being part of a multinational cybercrime ring that fooled thousands
of Americans into giving up credit card and bank information through spam "phishing"
e-mails and used it to steal millions of dollars.
http://www.upi.com

ID-protection ads come back to bite pitchman
By Associated Press Staff
Todd Davis has dared criminals for two years
to try stealing his identity: Ads for his fraud-prevention company, LifeLock,
even offer his Social Security number next to his smiling mug. Now, Lifelock
customers in Maryland, New Jersey and West Virginia are suing Davis, claiming
his service didn't work as promised and he knew it wouldn't, because the service
had failed even him.
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9343471?source=rss

US Air Force Prepares for Cyber Warfare
By Will Spencer
The Air Force has begun intensive research and
development to create cyber warfare tools. An announcement was placed in the
government website soliciting ideas for business opportunities. The solicitation
notice was released as the Dominant Cyber Offensive Engagement and Supporting
Technology effort by the Air Force Research Library.
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/62296

Routine conduct at risk with MySpace suicide case
By Anick Jesdanun
Think twice before you sign up for an online
service using a fake name or e-mail address. You could be committing a federal
crime. Federal prosecutors turned to a novel interpretation of computer hacking
law to indict a Missouri mother on charges connected to the suicide of a
13-year-old MySpace user. Prosecutors alleged that by helping create a MySpace
account in the name of someone who didn't exist, Lori Drew, 49, violated the
News Corp.-owned site's terms of service and thus illegally accessed protected
computers.
http://www.physorg.com/news130180938.html

Woman indicted in fatal cyber-bully case
By Dan Whitcomb
A Missouri woman who prosecutors say used a
fake MySpace persona to "torment, harass, humiliate and embarrass" a 13-year-old
girl who committed suicide was indicted on Thursday on federal charges.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1531758020080515

Internet fuels emergence of violent Islamist groups in the United States
By Katherine McIntire Peters
The violent Islamist terrorist threat has
evolved and expanded since al Qaeda planned the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks, and radicalization of disaffected Muslims and recent converts to Islam
is increasingly occurring here in the United States. Yet the federal government
has "no cohesive and comprehensive outreach and communications strategy in place
to confront this thread." Those are among the findings of a new report by the
staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=39998&dcn=e_gvet

Criminals try to 'copyright' malware
By Jordan Robertson
Even criminal hackers want to protect their
intellectual property, and they've come up with a method akin to copyrighting —
with an appropriate dash of Internet thuggery thrown in. Professional virus
writers are now selling a suite of software on the Internet with an unusual
attachment: a detailed licensing agreement that promises penalties for
redistributing the malicious code without permission.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-04-30-criminals-malware_N.htm

April 2008
The Art of Cyber Warfare, Part 1: The Digital Battlefield
By Jack M. Germain
Computer network attacks are often perpetrated
by gangs of criminal hackers attempting to break into a system for financial
gain. However, cyber attacks for political purposes could just as easily be --
and sometimes are -- perpetrated. A country's national security could be
severely threatened should a team of hackers successfully crack certain computer
systems.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/The-Art-of-Cyber-Warfare-Part-1-The-Digital-Battlefield-62779.html#

German intel agency blasted for cyber espionage
By Robert Lemos
Eight months after the nation's chancellor
accused China of information attacks, Germany now faces criticism over its
intelligence agency's use of software designed to spy on other countries'
officials.
http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/730

Agencies getting serious about virtual worlds
By Anne Laurent
The National Defense University is building a
600-seat auditorium above an island in a virtual world. Ten days ago, the Air
Force put out a call to gauge companies’ interest in prototyping a virtual base.
The Transportation Department has constructed a synthetic world with IBM. Last
year, the State Department held an eight-hour jazz fest for 300 avatars and
chatted in Second Life with 20 others from Canada and Poland about student
visas.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20080428_3630.php?zone=ngtoday

Radio Free Europe says it’s under cyber attack
By Associated Press
Several Web sites of the U.S.-funded Radio
Free Europe/Radio Liberty have been attacked, the broadcaster said today,
suggesting the Belarus government could be responsible. In the form of a
denial-of-service attack that floods servers with fake traffic so legitimate
visitors cannot get through, the assault began Saturday and continues, the
network said in a statement.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/europe/view.bg?articleid=1090260&srvc=rss

FBI releases details of expansive data-sharing program
By Andrew Noyes
The FBI released details this week about a
little-known information-sharing initiative known as N-DEx, or the Law
Enforcement National Data Exchange, which lets agents search and analyze crime
data on a secure Web site to help connect the dots between people, places and
events.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=39839&dcn=e_gvet

Malicious microprocessor opens new doors for attack
By Robert McMillan
Researchers have found a difficult but viable
method for hacking a PC's microprocessor -- an attack that would be devastating
and virtually undetectable. For years, hackers have focused on finding bugs in
computer software that give them unauthorized access to computer systems, but
now there's another way to break in: Hack the microprocessor.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/15/Malicious-microprocessor-opens-new-doors-for-attack_1.html

Europe facing radicalization over the Web
By Olivier Guitta
Bernard Squarcini the head of the DST
(Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire), the French equivalent of the FBI,
told the French daily Libération regarding Islamic radicalization: "An
ideological transformation can be done in three months on the Web. An individual
can at night auto-radicalize himself via the Web and get in touch with leaders
of terrorist organizations." This assessment shows how dire the situation is in
Europe when it comes to al-Qaida's use of the Web.
http://www.metimes.com/International/2008/04/20/europe_facing_radicalization_over_the_web/5616/

Unwittingly hosting terror
By Brian Grow, Keith Epstein and Chi-Chu
Tschang
For more than a year, a Burlington-based
Internet company hosted a website that taught its members how to outfit a
suicide bomber, aired Al Qaeda propaganda videos, and offered an "exclusive"
Taliban video showing the beheadings of three "spies," according to computer
records.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/03/27/unwittingly_hosting_terror/

The New E-spionage Threat
By Brian Grow, Keith Epstein and Chi-Chu
Tschang
A BusinessWeek probe of rising attacks on
America's most sensitive computer networks uncovers startling security gaps.
The e-mail message addressed to a Booz Allen Hamilton executive was mundane—a
shopping list sent over by the Pentagon of weaponry India wanted to buy. But the
missive turned out to be a brilliant fake. Lurking beneath the description of
aircraft, engines, and radar equipment was an insidious piece of computer code
known as "Poison Ivy" designed to suck sensitive data out of the $4 billion
consulting firm's computer network.
http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/08_16/b4080032218430.htm

FBI Data Transfers Via Telecoms Questioned
By Ellen Nakashima
When FBI investigators probing New York
prostitution rings, Boston organized crime or potential terrorist plots anywhere
want access to a suspect's telephone contacts, technicians at a
telecommunications carrier served with a government order can, with the click of
a mouse, instantly transfer key data along a computer circuit to an FBI
technology office in Quantico.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/07/AR2008040702364.html?hpid=moreheadlines

Army urged to develop process to wage war in cyberspace
By Greg Grant
With wars increasingly fought among the
people, information is now an element of combat power as important as lethal
action in determining a conflict's eventual outcome, said an Army officer who
heads the services computer warfare efforts.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=39733&dcn=e_gvet

Commercial Espionage: Travelers Beware
By Scott Louis Weber
We are addicted to information and cannot go
long without being "connected." Indeed, while you are reading this article you
will likely check your e-mail or instant message a friend or colleague.
Traveling with technology is commonplace. Whether we are on the move for
business or pleasure, technology allows us to remain in communication with our
personal and business lives, 24/7, without any travel interruptions. But look
out. All this can be just fodder for spies.
http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/04/08/viator-corporate-espionage-oped-cx_slw_0408viator.html

Nato creates cyber-defence command
By Nick Heath
Nato is creating a cyber-defence command to
protect its allies against crippling online attacks on national infrastructures.
The Cyber Defence Management Authority (CDMA) will co-ordinate cyber-defence
among Nato allies after its formation was backed by members at a Nato summit in
Bucharest last week.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39382597,00.htm

Zombie Computers Decried As Imminent National Threat
By Ryan Singel
Across the world, thousands of home computers
have been conscripted into zombie computer gangs that cyber criminals use to
spam, attack and defraud others on the net, causing considerable consternation
to law enforcement and security professionals alike, who count the so-called
botnets as the most vexing net threat today.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/zombie-computer.html

Congress to industry: 'We need your help'
By William Jackson
Making national cybersecurity policy is an
always difficult and often thankless task, the director of a House subcommittee
told an audience Wednesday at the RSA Security conference. “One of the things
that make cybersecurity difficult is that there are a lot of mixed messages out
there,” said Jacob Olcott of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on
Emerging Threats, Cyber Security, and Science and Technology. Some see the
threat of cyberterrorism as a reality, and others think dire pronouncements are
overblown. “There is a lot of disagreement about what, exactly, we’re dealing
with.”
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/46086-1.html

US Cyberwarfare Prep Includes Offense
By Anick Jesdanun
U.S. military officials seeking to boost the
nation's cyberwarfare capabilities are looking beyond defending the Internet:
They are developing ways to launch virtual attacks on enemies. But first the
military will have to figure out the proper boundaries.
http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=108&sid=1381656

March 2008
EU Debates Cybercrime Law Enforcement
By Jan Sliva
Two groups working separately to boost
Europe's defenses against online crime will present proposals this week, almost
a year after most of the nation of Estonia's links to the Internet were
disrupted for days or weeks.
http://www.physorg.com/news126199429.html

Mukasey: piracy funding terror
By Jordon Robertson
Attorney General Michael Mukasey warned Friday
that the huge profits generated from piracy and counterfeiting are increasingly
flowing into the coffers of terrorist groups.
http://www.thestate.com/technology-wire/story/359147.html

Cyberterrorism, hacktivism: Trying to find hope
By Scott Stewart
Watching the behavior of countries like China
and the United States underscores one of the most important insights you can
have into geopolitics: Essentially, the world community is in anarchy. The world
stage is in a Hobbesian state of nature; there are no rules for those with
enough strength or influence to avoid them.
http://media.www.unogateway.com

Hannaford breach raises new fears
By Clarke Canfield and Brian Bergstein
At first, it sounded like another in a long
line of credit card breaches: Up to 4.2 million account numbers were stolen by
thieves who cracked computers at Hannaford Bros. Co., an Eastern supermarket
chain. But the specifics of the crime, revealed this week, included some
troubling twists that might expose big holes in the payment industry's security
standards.
http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_8640617

Military to Boost Cyber-Protections
By Lolita Baldor
The military is beefing up efforts to gather
intelligence, fend off cyber-attacks and improve relations with other nations as
part of a strategy for keeping the U.S. safe while fighting two wars, according
to a Pentagon document.
http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/march/0319_military_cyber1.shtml

Some Viruses Come Pre-Installed
By Jordan Robertson
From iPods to navigation systems, some of
today's hottest gadgets are landing on store shelves with some unwanted extras
from the factory - pre-installed viruses that steal passwords, open doors for
hackers and make computers spew spam.
http://www.physorg.com/news124646014.html

Online Terrorism is Global Concern
By Mandy Clark
While people work hard on their computers - so
too do the Internet viruses or malicious software known as malware. Cyber
experts say hundreds of thousands of them bombard personal computers every day.
Far from being a mere nuisance, these bugs threaten modern life.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-03-13-voa17.cfm

NSA's Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data
By Siobhan Gorman
Five years ago, Congress killed an
experimental Pentagon antiterrorism program meant to vacuum up electronic data
about people in the U.S. to search for suspicious patterns. Opponents called it
too broad an intrusion on Americans' privacy, even after the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120511973377523845.html?mod=blog

U.S. unprepared for ongoing cyberwar, say top military and intelligence
officials
By Bob Brewin
The United States is in the midst of a
cyberwar and is not prepared to deal with it, top Defense Department and
intelligence officials acknowledged this week.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=39466&dcn=todaysnews

Windows Hacked in Seconds Via Firewire
By Matthew Broersma
A New Zealand security researcher has
published a software tool allowing attackers to quickly gain access to Windows
systems via a Firewire port.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/939892823D52DE75CC25740300048AD0

OMB reports 60 percent increase in information security incidents
By Jill R. Aitoro
The number of information security incidents
reported by federal agencies jumped from 5,146 in fiscal 2006 to 12,986 last
year, with a 70 percent increase in unauthorized access to federal networks
alone, according to a report from the Office of Management released Saturday.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=39425&dcn=e_nextgov

February 2008
Why no united front on cyber crime? Divided we fall…
By Simon Moores
The internet is certainly not safe. The
statistics may show the risk of crime is decreasing in some areas because of new
technical measures and policies. But elsewhere, under the extreme pressures of
criminal interests, new leaks are appearing in the collective firewall. They may
become a flood if not tackled quickly. That growing influence of serious and
organised crime in cyberspace is the focus of representatives from business,
finance, government and law enforcement agencies at next week's sixth
international e-Crime Congress in London.
http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39170197,00.htm

German court limits cyber spying
By Staff Reporter
Germany's highest court has restricted the
right of the security services to spy on the computers of suspected criminals
and terrorists.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7266543.stm

Report: Agencies lack identity theft protections even after lapses
By Frederic J. Frommer
Nearly two years after an embarrassing flap in
which veterans' personal information was put at risk of identity theft, federal
agencies are still not doing all they can to prevent further lapses,
investigators have found.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=39347&sid=1

Government still suffers from information insecurity
By Jill R. Aitoro
Federal agencies continue to struggle with
information security, according to a new report from the Government
Accountability Office. Weak access controls, network device configuration, and
management procedures leave systems vulnerable to malicious attacks and data at
risk of exposure.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=39314&dcn=e_gvet

Cyberterrorism, Inc
By Peter Buxbaum
A new report says that 2008 will see an
expansion of economic espionage in which nation-states and companies will use
cybertheft of data to gain economic advantage in multinational deals.
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=14354&tag=

Combating Enemies Online
By James Jay Carafano and Richard Weitz
Even before the terrorist attacks of September
11, 2001, security experts were becoming increasingly concerned about the
vulnerability of U.S. computer systems and associated infrastructure. The 9/11
attacks amplified these concerns.
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=4FC31039-5A9C-4ADC-97EB-583829145052

Microsoft Helps Nab $900M Piracy Ring
By Jessica Mintz
Near-perfect knockoffs of 21 different
Microsoft programs began surfacing around the world just over a decade ago.
Soon, PCs in more than a dozen countries were running illegal copies of Windows
and Office, turning unwitting consumers into criminals and, Microsoft says,
exposing them to increased risk of malicious viruses and spyware.
http://www.examiner.com/a-1208462~Microsoft_Helps_Nab__900M_Piracy_Ring.html?cid=sec-promo

Bush administration proposes $7.3 billion for IT security
By Jill R. Aitoro
President Bush's proposed budget for fiscal
2009 includes $7.3 billion for cybersecurity efforts -- a 9.8 percent increase
from |