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Feb. 1, 2012 - J. Nicholas Hoover
Cyber attacks against government agencies and businesses in the United States continue to rise, and cyber threats will one day surpass the danger of terrorism to the United States, intelligence community officials said in an open hearing of the Senate select intelligence community Tuesday.
"Stopping terrorists is the number one priority," said FBI director Robert Mueller. "But down the road, the cyber threat will be the number one threat to the country. I do not think today it is necessarily [the] number one threat, but it will be tomorrow."
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Feb. 5, 2012 - Shaun Waterman
Hackers being hunted by police worldwide eavesdropped on FBI and Scotland Yard officers investigating them.
The Internet outlaws, part of a loose coalition called Anonymous, got access to a telephone conference call between U.S. and British investigators and then posted a recording of their conversation on Friday.
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Feb. 3, 2012 - Kelly Jackson Higgins
One of the many challenges faced by law enforcement worldwide in investigating cybercrime cases is the ability to efficiently share intelligence among different nations and to disseminate it to the appropriate local police units.
Michael Moran, director of cybersecurity and cybercrime for INTERPOL, says the planned opening of the INTERPOL Global Complex in Singapore in 2014 is crucial to improving global cooperation among law enforcement. Moran says the organization is working on putting in place a secure online presence for police worldwide to work together on cybercrime cases, which often crisscross multiple regions and geographic jurisdictions.
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Feb. 3, 2012 - Jaikumar Vijayan
A Hungarian hacker who attempted to extort money from Marriott International Inc. by stealing confidential data from its computers and threatening to expose it was sentenced to 30 months in prison.
Attila Nemeth, 26, will also serve three years of supervised release following his prison term, federal prosecutors said in a statement Friday. Nemeth had previously pleaded guilty to charges of transmitting malicious code and attempted extortion, in U.S. District Court in Maryland.
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Feb. 3, 2012 - Nicole Perlroth
Hackers claiming to be members of the loose hacking collective Anonymous took credit for knocking the Citigroup and Citibank Web sites offline on Friday. At times the sites were only sporadically available, and some attempts to log into banking accounts were met with an error message.
Andrew Brent, a Citigroup spokesman, confirmed that Citigroup’s consumer site had experienced a temporary outage but said that Citigroup had been able to restore Web site operations within one hour and was continuing to monitor its systems.
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Feb. 2012
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Feb. 3, 2012 - Matt Liebowitz
Apple has rolled out a big batch of security fixes for several of its popular software products and components, including the Mac OS X 10.7 Lion operating system.
In an advisory, Apple announced it addressed the bugs, many of which could be exploited to grant an attacker privileged remote access to infected machines, and included the patches in the new OS X Lion version 10.7.3.
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Feb. 2, 2012 - Andrew Gumbel
Computer security experts have warned that the 2013 Oscars ballot may be vulnerable to a variety of cyber attacks that could falsify the outcome but remain undetected, if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences follows through on its decision to switch to internet voting for its members.
The Academy announced last week that it would be ditching its current vote-by-mail system and allowing its members to fill out electronic ballots from their home or office computers to make their choices for best picture and the other big Hollywood prizes, starting in 2013.
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Feb. 2, 2012 - Gregg Keizer
Half of all Fortune 500 companies and major U.S. government agencies own computers infected with the "DNS Changer" malware that redirects users to fake websites and puts organizations at risk of information theft, a security company said today.
DNS Changer, which at its peak was installed on more than four million Windows PCs and Macs worldwide -- a quarter of them in the U.S. alone -- was the target of a major takedown organized by the U.S. Department of Justice last November.
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Feb. 1, 2012 - Dan Bowman
Healthcare organizations need to "serve as their own watchdog" to increase security and decrease data breaches, a new report from IT security audit firm Redspin concludes. The increase in "bring your own device" policies at various hospitals, in addition to the continued implementation of electronic health record systems, are too much for government alone to regulate, the report's authors say.
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