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FBI to prioritise cybercrime fight
News Protecting the United States against "cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes" is one of the FBI's top 10 priorities, Director Robert Mueller said at a news conference detailing a major reorganisation of the agency.
[May 30, 2002, 14:18]
Cyber terrorism 'merely a theory'
News Gartner's information security and risk research director has dismissed cyber-terrorism as a "theory". The director, Rich Mogull, told journalists that despite the incidence of high-profile digital attacks, cyber terrorism is a phenomenon that has...
[November 11, 2003, 8:10]
DoD may announce Cyber Command
Blog The US Department of Defence may announce its own Cyber Command. What I've heard is that when the Air Force Cyber Command was proposed over a year ago, the DoD asked the Air Force not to go ahead with the plans, as Cyber Command was a DoD level...
[March 13, 2009, 16:19]
US 'making progress' on cybersecurity
News Schmidt was joined on the panel by Andy Purdy, acting director of the National Cyber Security Division at the Department of Homeland Security; Daniel Mehan, former chief information officer at the Federal Aviation Administration; and James Lewis...
[February 15, 2006, 13:15]
Will IT bring about the end of the world?
News Also this week, Scott Borg, the director and chief economist of the US Cyber Consequences Unit - which gives the US government risk assessments of possible cyber attacks - warned that criminals or terrorists could target IT systems.
[June 2, 2006, 15:05]
Security experts: Botnets biggest threat on net
News Jordana Siegel, deputy director of outreach and awareness at the National Cyber Security Division of the US Department of Homeland Security, said: "We're seeing a constant increase in malicious code, which includes botnets.
[April 11, 2008, 9:32]
Denial-of-Service: How big is this threat?
News Addressing a Senate sub-committee of cyber crime last week, Freeh said the attacks against Yahoo! In short, even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber-intrusions, the problem is growing even faster," he told the committee.
[April 5, 2000, 13:20]
Civil liberties groups condemn Big Brother proposals
News Yaman Akdenis, director of UK Internet rights group Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties condemns the proposals as evidence of blatant disregard for personal liberty. This would violate the principles of the Data Protection Act and the Human Rights Act...
[December 4, 2000, 8:40]
Government hacker warning is a sign of the times
News Bob Jones, managing director of internet security specialist Equiinet said NISCC had woken-up to the serious issue of cyber crime and businesses should do the same. Attacks and payloads are getting more sophisticated all the time and so the...
[June 16, 2005, 16:45]
International cyberattack drill tests nations' responses
News Details have emerged about "Cyber Storm II", a large-scale exercise carried out to test how governments and critical-infrastructure organisations respond to cyberattacks. McKitrick said that in any simulation there was "always an element of fudging...
[April 10, 2008, 11:22]
Obama urged to appoint cybersecurity chief
News The recommended executive office, staffed by 10 to 20 employees, would merge the DHS National Cybersecurity Center and the Joint Interagency Cyber Task Force (created by the director of national intelligence).
[December 10, 2008, 8:35]
E-Christmas may not live up to promise
News This doesn't just represent a step up for Christmas cyber shopping compared to last year, it's a gigantic leap.will truly be Britain's first cyber Christmas," he said. Santa has swapped his sleigh for a surfboard this year," predicts the director...
[November 15, 1999, 16:39]
Governments prepare for 'cyber cold war'
News There has been a sea change over the past year in the amount of government-sanctioned cyber-espionage, according to some security experts. They warn that a "cyber cold war" is developing, in which governments are using technology not only for the...
[December 3, 2007, 10:58]
IWF lambasted for plan to ban newsgroups
News The self-regulatory word isn't appropriate anymore," said Yaman Akdeniz, director of Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties. Cyber-liberty advocates have lambasted the UK Internet regulator's decision to close down newsgroups that are known to regularly...
[July 19, 2001, 17:22]
NSA patent reveals global monitoring technology
News According to Yaman Akdeniz director of Cyber Rights & Cyber Liberties, anyone who thinks this is just a US issue is sorely mistaken. Director of Privacy International, Simon Davies is keen to make people aware that, innovative as this technology...
[November 16, 1999, 11:47]
Home Office says 'no' to cybercrime figures
News Yaman Akdeniz, director of Cyber Rights and Cyber Liberties, brands the Home Office's approach "suspicious". Launching the NHTCU, deputy director general of NCIS Roger Gaspar admitted his concern over the lack of statistical evidence available on...
[April 20, 2001, 15:10]
FBI cracks down on Internet fraud
News A total of 88 people have been charged and 62 arrested in the operation code-named "Cyber Loss" involving 61 separate federal, state and local investigations, the FBI and Justice Department announced.
[May 24, 2001, 10:27]
Smartcard home banking may be on way to UK
News ActiveCard, itself a French company, has agreed to supply French banking consortium Cyber-COMM with technology that will allow bank users to plug portable card readers into any personal computer in order to access their bank accounts via the...
[November 17, 1999, 9:00]
Estonia's cyberattacks: Lessons learned, a year on
News Earlier this month US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff outlined US plans for a cyber "Manhattan Project" to echo the development of nuclear weapons during the Second World War, partly as a response to the attacks on Estonia.
[May 1, 2008, 14:04]
FBI warns of rising cybercrime threat
News There are a "couple dozen" countries interested in breaching US networks, said Shawn Henry, assistant director of the FBI Cyber Division. President Bush in January established the Comprehensive National Cyber Security Initiative, of which the...
[October 16, 2008, 10:38]
