‘NASA hacker’ Gary McKinnon has won permission from the High Court to apply for a judicial review against his extradition to the United States.
Update: Lifeline for McKinnon
According to his lawyer, Karen Todner, Gary McKinnon, who may be facing extradition after confessing to hacking into US military computers, was told yesterday that the UK High Court would delay his hearing until the director for public prosecutions had…
Government aligns with IISP
The UK government’s Infosec Training Paths and Competencies (ITPC) scheme is to transfer to the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP) with effect from 1 April 2009.
One in Four Stalking Victims Targeted Online
Approximately one quarter of stalking or harassment cases in the US include an element of cyberstalking, according to a report from the Bureau of Justice statistics this week.
Privacy Groups Sue FBI for Activist Raid
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California are suing the FBI over computer searches conducted at two activist organizations’ offices.
New Botnets on the Prowl
Two new botnets have emerged in the past few weeks, and at least one shows signs of being an upgrade to a previous botnet that wreaked havoc in the wild.
Downadup Worm Continues to Spread
More evidence has appeared of the spread of a network work based on the RPC vulnerability that was found in Microsoft Windows in October. The network worm Downadup has failed to gain much traction on the open internet, according to anti-virus firm F-Se…
Hamas, Israel Conflict goes Cyber
The ongoing battle between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza strip is creating a widening online cyber-conflict, according to reports last week. US Government web sites are the latest among hundreds that have reportedly been defaced by activists protesting …
Proof of Concept Attack Further Discredits MD5
Researchers put the final nail in the coffin of the MD5 encryption algorithm this week after using 200 PS3 consoles to fake a real-world SSL certificate.
‘Drop zones’ hold treasure trove of stolen goods
Millions of dollars-worth of stolen financial information harvested from nearly 200,000 computers is likely to be just the tip of the iceberg, according to a report from researchers at the University of Mannheim, Germany. The information was detected b…