February 2011
Wireless router hijacked for child pornography
(via)Malcolm Riddell awoke at 6 a.m. one day last year to some of the most heart-sinking words a homeowner can hear: “FBI, open up.”
July 2010
Crooks prey on young online
(via)ONE in 10 Australian internet users – more than 1.3 million people – lost an average of $1000 each to cyber criminals in the past 12 months.
May 2010
‘Cyberwar’ A Misused Term
(via)Some officials and computer security companies are arguing that the World Wide Web is battlefield in a “cyberwar” that has armies of hackers stealing online secrets and using the Internet to attack the mainframe of many real world companies.
DNSSEC may cause an Internet fail on May 5
(via)Network managers are being urged to run a series of checks on their routers and firewalls to ensure their users will still be able to connect to internet sites in the wake of a major change to the internet’s domain name system next week.
July 2009
Hackers who caused Internet failure arrested
(via)Four suspects who allegedly caused an Internet failure in six provinces and autonomous regions of China on May 19 were arrested in Jiangsu Province, Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday.
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