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Hacker struck Winchester Army Corps of Engineers

A computer hacker who compromised a United Nations Web site in 2007 also defaced a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers server based in Winchester that year. First reported by a computer information magazine on Friday, a hacker known by the handle "m0sted" -- a 24-year-old man from Turkey, according to his YouTube page -- compromised a Web page hosted on Army servers in Winchester. M0sted's attack simply changed the contents of the page, forcing it to redirect browsers to the hacker's own page, which at the time contained anti-American and anti-Israeli statements. (NV Daily) ›
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Air Force commits to cyber security

The U.S. Air Force has said that one of its most critical battles is in cyberspace, and on Friday, President Barack Obama announced that he is making that battleground one of his top priorities. (MA) ›
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Securing our Digital Future

The globally-interconnected digital information and communications infrastructure known as cyberspace underpins almost every facet of modern society and provides critical support for the U.S. economy, civil infrastructure, public safety and national security.  The United States is one of the global leaders on embedding technology into our daily lives and this technology a ›
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Cyberspace Policy Review: Assuring a Trusted and Resilient Information and Communications Infrastructure

In February 2009, President Obama directed the National Security Council (NSC) and Homeland Security Council to conduct a 60-day review of the plans, programs, and activities underway throughout government that address our communications and information infrastructure (i.e., "cyberspace"), in order to develop a st ›
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Dangerous Microsoft DirectX vulnerability under attack

Microsoft today warned that hackers are using rigged QuickTime media files to exploit an unpatched vulnerability in DirectShow, the APIs used by Windows programs for multimedia support. The company has activated its security response process to deal with the zero-day attacks has issued a pre-patch advisory with workarounds and a one-click “fix it” featu ›
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Lake officials arrest 19 in cyber crime probe

The Lake County Sheriff's Office announced 19 arrests late today in connection with five-month-long cyber crime investigation involving child pornography. The probe resulted in 23 search warrants and more than 12,000 child pornography images seized from computers. The Lake County Sheriff's Office Cyber Crimes Unit worked with task forces in several states, ›
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Members Of Legendary '90s Hacker Group Relaunch Password-Cracking Tool

It's official: The famous password-cracking tool L0phtCrack is back, and its creators plan to keep it that way. L0phtCrack 6 tool, released Wednesday, was developed in 1997 by Christien Rioux, Chris Wysopal, and Peiter "Mudge" Zatko from the former L0pht Heavy Industries -- the hacker think tank best known for te ›
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Obama to create cyber czar in awareness effort

The Obama administration is creating a "cyber czar" within the White House to coordinate the nation's computer security. Critics already say the post will not have enough authority to haul the government into the digital age. Government and private industry need to better protect the nation's computer networks, the White House warns in a plan to be rolled o ›
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National Archives Loss Adds to List of Govt. Data Goofs

The U.S. government says it's lost -- yes, lost -- an entire hard drive full of sensitive data. The external drive, stored at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, held personal data from the Clinton era, including information about White House staff and visitors and electronic storage tapes from the Executive Office of the President. (PC Wo ›
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DNS Attack Downs Internet in Parts of China

An attack on the servers of a domain registrar in China caused an online video application to cripple Internet access in parts of the country late on Wednesday. Internet access was affected in five northern and coastal provinces after the DNS (domain name system) attack, which targeted just one company but caused unanswered information requests to flood Chi ›
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Computer Virus Strikes FBI, U.S. Marshals Service

Law enforcement computers were struck by a mystery computer virus Thursday, forcing the FBI and the U.S. Marshals to shut down part of their networks as a precaution. The U.S. Marshals confirmed it disconnected from the Justice Department's computers as a protective measure after being hit by the virus; an FBI official said only that that agency was experie ›
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Witnesses Call for Better Information Security from Federal Government

"The American people need to trust that the information they are submitting to or receiving from the government is accurate, reliable, and secure," said Vivek Kundra, the federal chief information officer at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), before a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform subc ›