Neowin News Feed for: Cyber crime

White House confirms cyber-attack on secure network

Paul Ferson — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:34:05 +0100

The White House has admitted a cyber-attack occurred on Sunday, in which the hackers could have accessed information about the country's nuclear arsenal. China has been suggested as a perpetrator. Read more...

Google Takedown requests increase by 1137% compared to 2011

Paul Ferson — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:18:52 +0100

Google's Takedown requests have increased by over 1,000% compared to last year. The search giant now handles more than a million takedown requests weekly, from various groups and reporters. Read more...

Fake anti-piracy warnings hitting UK users

Jake Durasamy — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:51:46 +0100

Fake anti-piracy warning emails are being sent to users with money requests in an attempt to profit from the UK Digital Economy Act's upcoming law that states users will be warned when pirating. Read more...

Surprise - cybercrime statistics could be exaggerated

Tyler Holman — Wed, 09 May 2012 03:36:32 +0100

The methodology used to come up with cybercrime statistics could be fundamentally flawed, taking out of context incidents and applying (and multiplying) them over the entire population. Read more...

Bioware hacked, 18,000 customer's have details compromised

Steve Donaghy — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:40:10 +0100

It seems that not a day goes by without a company being hacked and having people's personal information compromised, or worse still, spread about the internet. The latest in this string of attacks is Bioware,... Read more...

US to spend $15-30 billion on cyber protection

Brad Sams — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:48:25 +0000

The US government is about to get very serious on its spending for cyber security protection. The plan is to help control and better protect itself and its assets against future attacks. The spending... Read more...

Cyber Crime Sweep Nets Over 100 Arrests

configure — Sun, 23 Nov 2003 01:14:55 +0000

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Federal authorities have rounded up and arrested more than 125 individuals on charges including identity theft and computer intrusion as part of a nationwide crackdown on Internet crime, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday.... Read more...

Cyber Crime Centre at MI5 Headquarters set to run into trouble

UKer — Thu, 06 Jun 2002 11:27:26 +0100

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The new UK snooping facility which will be opened at the MI5 Headquarters will, according to news reports, run into significant problems and due to modern encryption techniques it will have trouble even capturing information... Read more...