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You want cyber security hire a top notch hacker

I use to tell software and web clients who where concerned about their security to head over to the nearest high school and start asking around for the best hacker in the school – ... continue

FBI, U.S. Marshals hit by mystery virus

According to a post over at the cnet Security blog it appears that the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service was hit by some sort of computer virus on Thursday of last week. A ... continue

Your data safe from prying company eyes? Think again

While the reports of data breaches are probably only a fraction of the real number of times your personal data has been stolen from companies the fact that it happens is almost an accepted ... continue

British government outed in plan to spy on citizens

With great hoopla British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said the government would be scrapping its massive ‘big brother’ database meant to be used to monitor the country’s citizens. “The government ... continue

Is Microsoft setting itself up for an uproar?

If there is one thing that people have always been slamming Microsoft for is its habit of bundling things with the operating system that other companies charge for, or have built a solid business ... continue

GhostNet spying operation linked to China

There are times that I am really proud of my country especially when a bunch of Canadian geeks expose one of the largest cyber spying operations currently running in the world. It was a bunch of ... continue

The U.K. wants your Twitter chatter under surveillance

Not happy with pushing the EU Data Retention Directive which would make ISPs store communication data for 12 months Vernon Coaker, the U.K. Home Office security minister, now wants all social networking sites and ... continue

So you think your data is safe eh

Data security is a touchy subject with many security companies trying to make you believe that places like banks and other institutions have gotten better over the years. The truth may be something far different if ... continue

BBC shows what happens when you buy a botnet

As a way to show its viewer how easily their computers could be a part of a botnet the BBC technology show Click went out and purchased what they called a low value botnet from one ... continue

Law Enforcement 2.0 – cops going social

The fact that various police agencies are using services like YouTube, Facebook and even Twitter there has been an increasing number of social networks starting up that cater specifically to police forces. For example one ... continue

I bet Britons are wishing for a modern day Guy Fawkes

Back in 1600’s there was a growing feeling of discrimination against the English Roman Catholics to the point that there was a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament while King James 1 and the ... continue

Kaspersky site hacked to exposed sensitive data

I can just imagine the howls of laughter and high fives (virtual ones of course) that must have been going on as hackers managed to crack the security of Kaspersky’s website this weekend. Apparently the breach cut ... continue

Fannie Mae: 1 – Pissed off ex-employee: 0

What employee hasn’t thought about getting back at the company that has just fired them? Probably a lot but one fella working for the firm OmniTech was contracted out to Fanny Mae definitely intended on doing some ... continue

Turkish courts hands out 30 years to hacking godfather

Remember that big TJ Max hacking news that broke a few years ago? Well apparently the man responsible for selling off all of that data has been sentenced to 30 years in a Turkish prison. Unfortunately ... continue

Credit card fraud factory on video

Ever wondered just how all those fraudulent credit cards are created and used? Well Detective Bob Watts of the Newport Beach Police Department will take you on a guided tour through the process. This is the operation ... continue

England’s computer privacy rights totally screwed

It’s one thing to have a camera shoved up your ass where ever you go in England but that doesn’t appear to be good enough for the powers that be in England; or the European Union. According ... continue

The economy makes a joke of the ‘most watched country’

England has for the longest time been held up as the beacon of police action through CCTV even though more than one study has proven the benefits to be doubtful. In a move to make England the ... continue

English ‘green Banksy’ shuts down turbine, leaves station owners gobsmacked.

In a story just appearing now on the Guardian news site it appears that back on November 28th a lone individual breached one of the most secure electrical stations in England and shutdown one ... continue

No more making fun of Windows security for Mac users

If there has always been one constant in the on-going my operating system is better than yours head butting that happens between Windows and Mac users it has been over the issue of security. Mac users have ... continue

U.S. Army in the anti-malware biz – for free

You know for all we as individuals complain about viruses, trojans and other such nasties imagine how it must be for government agencies where people don't care for the most part about what lands on their machines. ... continue

Screw the telcos help – government can find your cell phone by itself

Technology is a wonderful thing but it is also the way that our rights can be infringed upon without us sometimes even knowing. For many years the U.S. government agency; the FBI has had a technology called ... continue

This ain’t your normal hummingbird

A growing segment of the US Armed Forces arsenal is its collection of Predators and Reapers otherwise known as drones. These remotely controlled flying spies and killers are constantly seeing action in multiple places around the world ... continue