In a wide-ranging interview broadcast over online Spreaker radio but conducted probably via IRC, UK Anon Winston Smith has been talking to Null, the leader of the NullCrew hacking group.
GSA to implement $2.5B email-as-a-service project
The US General Services Administration (GSA) is planning to implement a five-year, $2.5 billion email-as-a-service (EaaS) strategy, as part of the government-wide cloud computing initiative that helps meet federal mandates for migrating information tec…
Philippines inks Cyber Crime Prevention Act
The Phillipines has signed the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 into law, meant to curtail and punish a range of internet-related offenses, from libel to hacking and cybersex to spamming.
Cyber Security Hall of Fame to induct 11 security pioneers
The first inductees of the National Cyber Security Hall of Fame have been announced, representing a collection of pioneers who invented the technologies, created awareness, promoted and delivered education, developed and influenced policy and created b…
China’s smart-grid explosion drives ‘huge’ security spending spree
China’s cybersecurity market is set to explode, growing from a valuation of just $1.8 billion last year to $50 billion by 2020, according to new research from GlobalData. The big 44.7% growth curve – which the firm says is an anomaly on the global stag…
Where to go to find the music pirates
A new report, drawing on 18 million observations of P2P activity on BitTorrent file sharing, analyzes what locations are downloading which music files – legally or illegally.
Quantum Key Distribution takes to the air
An aircraft in flight has successfully transmitted quantum encryption keys to a ground station, bringing closer the time when satellites can be used to provide a theoretically (allegedly) secure communications network.
YouTube declines to remove Mohammad video clip
Asked by the White House to reconsider whether the infamous Mohammad video clip is in violation of its terms of service, Google has replied that it is not. Although it is blocking the clip in Egypt, Libya, Indonesia and India, this, says Google, is in …
AlienVault doxes the man behind the PlugX RAT
AlienVault has been tracking the PlugX remote access trojan for some months, and following extensive detective work has now uncovered enough information to name the person behind it.
GCHQ Academic research institute to investigate the “Science of Cyber Security”
Yesterday the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ – one of the UK’s three intelligence agencies) announced that it has set up “a new academic Research Institute to improve understanding of the science behind the growing Cyber Security threa…