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Man Indicted for ‘Cyber-Extortion’ Threat Against Insurance Firm
25 April 2010
A California man was hit with an extortion charge this week for allegedly threatening to send out millions of e-mails criticizing his insurance company, if the firm didn’t pay him as much as $3 million. Anthony Digati, 52, faces a maximum two-year prison term if convicted of charges the Federal Bureau of Investigation is calling “cyber-extortion” (.pdf). The [...]
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Richard Clarke’s Cyberwar: File Under Fiction
25 April 2010
Readers of Richard Clarke’s new book Cyberwar who want to jump to the steamy parts should start at page 64 in the chapter “Cyber Warriors.” It’s there you’ll find the Book of Revelation re-written for the internet age, with the end-times heralded by the Four Trojan Horses of the Apocalypse. Chinese hackers take down the Pentagon’s classified [...]
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McAfee Probing Bungle That Sparked Global PC Crash
25 April 2010
McAfee said Thursday it was trying to determine how it bungled a security update that crashed perhaps tens of thousands of PCs across the globe. Computers from Australia and Kentucky to the United Kingdom began freezing up late Wednesday after the Santa Clara, California, security firm released an updated definition file for its corporate antivirus software. The update mistakenly identified [...]
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ACTA Backs Away From 3 Strikes
25 April 2010
A proposed global intellectual-property treaty no longer nudges the international community to develop “three strikes” protocols to suspend internet connections of customers caught downloading copyrighted works, according to a draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement released Tuesday. The official draft of the proposed intellectual property accord was released after months of leaks and assertions by the [...]
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Second Banker Accused of Stealing High-Frequency Trading Code
25 April 2010
It was only a matter of time before another banker, lured by the prospects of riches, would get busted on allegations of stealing source code connected to a high-frequency, stock-and-commodities trading platform. The latest arrest concerns a former Societe Generale trader who was being detained Tuesday on New York federal court charges of stealing the computer [...]
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Google: U.S. Demanded User Info 3,500 Times in 6 Months
25 April 2010
Search engines and ISPs have for years refused to tell the public how many times the cops and feds have forced them to turn over information on users. Google broke that unwritten code of silence Tuesday, unveiling a Government Requests Tool that shows the public how often individual governments around the world have asked for user [...]
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