Listen to internet radio with nationalcybersecurity on Blog Talk Radio The Cyber Crime Police on Saturday arrested two youths from Mumbai on the charge of making a bomb hoax call to the HSBC BPO there. A child can now be at greater risk sitting in a bedroom on a computer than outside the school gates, [...]
Listen to internet radio with nationalcybersecurity on Blog Talk Radio Last month hackers took control of passenger rail lines in the Northwest, disrupting signals twice and creating delays. Businesses list the threats they are most concerned about in 2012; leading the list: unplanned IT and telecom outages, data breaches, and adverse weather. Also check out [...]
Listen to internet radio with nationalcybersecurity on Blog Talk Radio The Senate was able to approve on Tuesday morning the long-delayed Cybercrime bill whose latest amended version proposes the creation of new government offices. According to the FBI and the Department of Justice, cyber-crime is on the rise among American businesses, and it is costing [...]
Listen to internet radio with nationalcybersecurity on Blog Talk Radio The Syrian Cabinet approved on Tuesday a bill on organizing internet communication and combating cybercrime. Three North Carolina teens are accused of not only hacking another teen’s Facebook page but also posting derogatory messages and an obscene image on it. Also check out the job [...]
Listen to internet radio with nationalcybersecurity on Blog Talk Radio The two-pronged email smear campaign that targeted former U.S. Speaker Newt Gingrich on the eve of South Carolina’s pivotal “First in the South” presidential primary was a “big, highly-sophisticated” undertaking, according to one of the law enforcement professionals currently investigating the cyber crime. From compromised [...]
Listen to internet radio with nationalcybersecurity on Blog Talk Radio A Computer Programmer has been arrested over the theft of $10m worth of proprietary software code from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. While the rest of the world was making resolutions and sleeping off a night of partying, a South African cybercrime gang [...]
KANSAS CITY, KS—A Shawnee Mission man has pleaded guilty to a charge of producing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today. In his plea, Steven Miller, 30, Shawnee Mission, Kan., admitted that investigators found child pornography he produced on computer hard drives. The photos showed Miller sexually abusing a 3-year-old boy. The abuse took [...]
A 41-count criminal information was filed charging David T. Tufts, age 45, and Nelida I. Velasco, age 37, both of Chardon, Ohio, with conspiracy to file false tax returns, filing false tax returns, misuse of Social Security account numbers, and aggravated identity theft, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of [...]
ROCHESTER, NY—U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that David George Smith, 47, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of wrecklessly causing damage to a computer domain, was sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and to pay restitution to the victim company in the amount of $4,671 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan W. [...]
Timeshare owners across the country are being scammed out of millions of dollars by unscrupulous companies that promise to sell or rent the unsuspecting victims’ timeshares. In the typical scam, timeshare owners receive unexpected or uninvited telephone calls or e-mails from criminals posing as sales representatives for a timeshare resale company. The representative promises a [...]
FRESNO, CA—United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that today United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced Justin Paul Gladding, 36, of Fresno, to eight years and one month in prison for receiving child pornography. According to court documents, Gladding received via the Internet more than 600 images and videos depicting minors engaging in [...]
Cyber criminals can damage their victim’s computer systems and data by changing or deleting files, wiping hard drives, or erasing backups to hide some or all of their malicious activity and tradecraft. By wiping, or “zeroing out,” the hard disk drives, which overwrites good data with zeros or other characters, the criminals effectively erase or [...]
Google has deployed technology that will allow it to block blogs on its free Blogger platform in specific countries to comply with local rules……. View full post on SANS NewsBites Other links you may like: Gregory Evans on Television http://gregorydevans.com/video-gallery/, LocatePC, Fake your caller ID go to SPOOFEM.COM, LIGATT Security, Hacker Gear OnlineStolen Computer Alert
WASHINGTON – A developing Senate plan that would bolster the government’s ability to regulate the computer security of companies that run critical industries is drawing strong opposition from businesses that say it goes too far and security experts who believe it should have even more teeth. Legislation set to come out in the days ahead [...]
Police in Romania have arrested a man who allegedly broke into US government websites, including those of NASA and the Pentagon……. View full post on SANS NewsBites Other links you may like: The Worlds No 1 Security Consultant: http://www.youtube.com/no1hacker#p/u/0/KaOnRsc16Ls, LocatePC, Fake Text Messages go to SPOOFEM.COM, LIGATT Security, Hacker Gear OnlineStolen Computer Alert
AP – A developing Senate plan that would bolster the government’s ability to regulate the computer security of companies that run critical industries is drawing strong opposition from businesses that say it goes too far and security experts who believe it should have even more teeth. View full post on Yahoo! News: Security News
Pseudoscience sculpture by Mihail Chemiakin (Photo by Larry Magid) There’s an amazing group of sculptures in a park near the Kremlin in Moscow, called “Children are victims of adult vices” by Mihail Chemiakin. This particular sculpture is “pseudoscience,” which is relevant for the talks that I (along with my ConnectSafely.org co-director Anne Collier) will deliver [...]
Click to view caption Activists launched a campaign calling upon Egyptians to boycott mobile operators in the memory of 28 January “I will turn my phone off on 28 January, to say thank you for helping to kill the protesters,” read the slogan on a Facebook campaign. The campaign called on Egyptians to boycott mobile [...]
If you know how to use JavaScript in the browser, you already have the skills you need to put JavaScript to work on back-end servers with Node. This hands-on book shows you how to use this popular JavaScript platform to create simple server applications, communicate with the client, build dynamic pages, work with data, and [...]
The animals on the cover of Programming Interactivity, Second Edition, are guinea fowl (family Phasianidae, subfamily Numindinae). Sometimes known as guinea hens, wild guinea fowl originally hail from western Africa. Featherless heads with black crests and dark gray or deep blue plumage distinguish guinea fowl from other birds. Domesticated guinea fowl (descended from Numida meleagris) [...]
How can you extend Google Apps to fit your organization’s needs? This concise guide shows you how to use Google Scripts, the JavaScript-based language that provides a complete web-based development platform—with no downloads, configuration, or compiling required. You’ll learn how to add functionality to Gmail, spreadsheets, and other Google services, or build data-driven apps that [...]
Frustrated by the requirements for testing and distributing your iOS app? You’re not alone. This concise book takes you step by step through the maze of certification and provisioning processes that have to happen before, during, and after development. You’ll learn what’s required to sign certificates, test your app on iOS devices, and release the [...]
What would happen if you optimized a data store for the operations application developers actually use? You’d arrive at MongoDB, the reliable document-oriented database. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to build elegant database applications with MongoDB and PHP. Written by the Chief Solutions Architect at 10gen—the company that develops and supports this open [...]
Comments about oreilly HTML5 Cookbook: HTML5 Cookbook provides an overview and examples of new HTML 5 features and related JavaScript APIs. The cookbook series aims to provide short, targeted chapters that solve real world problems, and for simple use-cases, this book provides that. Most of the material in the book could be found in online [...]
The group plans to work with schools to warn students about bullying and offer support to victims. Source: Supplied RACE Discrimination Commissioner Helen Szoke has today backed a bold push to stamp out cyber bullying. Ms Szoke met with the families of three bullied teens, who all took their own lives, at a local council [...]
OZARK — What once seemed an easier and more modern way to communicate with middle and high school classmates has in some cases turned into another method of bullying. Local school officials said they are seeking ways to address an increase in “cyber bullying,” which can take place when threatening messages are sent through social [...]
BAMBERG – Gov. Nikki Haley was greeted by an attentive audience of 130 well-behaved seventh-graders at Bamberg-Ehrhardt Middle School Friday. In an impromptu visit announced just 24 hours earlier, Haley stepped back into the halls of the school she once attended as a student. Her personal message to the students was “Cool Kids Don’t Bully,” [...]
TOMS RIVER, NJ–(Marketwire – Feb 3, 2012) – The Academy at Grace and Peace announced that they will be hosting an open Workshop in conjunction with the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office that will address the issues surrounding cyber bullying February 28, at 5pm at the Academy of Grace and Peace, 1563 Old Freehold Road, Toms [...]
Maggie Flick I read this Facebook status almost everyday. “The Girl you just called fat? She has been starving herself and has lost over 30 pounds. The Boy you called stupid? He has a learning disability and studies over 4 hours a night. The Girl you called ugly? She spends hours putting make-up on hoping [...]
Editor’s note: This is the 10th of a series of stories that run periodically concerning the topic of bullying in our communities. MARSHALL – In response to repeated questions and concerns from parents considering purchasing cell phones for their adolescent children, one local company went right to a source to get some answers. Betsy Atwood, [...]
- Courtesy image The Better Business Bureau has launched a new online resource called “Scam Source” that outlines common scams and how to deal with them. View full post on online dating scam – Yahoo! News Search Results Other links you may like: , LocatePC, Fake your caller ID go to SPOOFEM.COM, LIGATT Security, Hacker [...]
With Valentine’s Day approaching, now might be a good time for lonely consumers to watch out for a con called the “romance scam.” In this scam, criminals pose as would-be lovers through social media or dating websites, strike up an Internet-based relationship and then ask for money so they can travel to meet their pursuer. [...]
Facebook’s billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a “hacker.” For most people, that word means something malicious — shady criminals who listen in on private voicemails, or anonymous villains who cripple websites and break into email accounts. View full post on facebook hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results Other links you may like: Gregory Evans [...]
By BARBARA ORTUTAYAP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) – Facebook’s billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a “hacker”. For most people, that word means something malicious – shady criminals who listen in on private voicemails, or anonymous villains who cripple websites and break into email accounts. For Facebook, though, “hacker” means something different. It’s an [...]
The Breakfast Meeting What’s making news in media. The Facebook initial public offering – with its goal of raising $5 billion, and a valuation of the company at $75 billion to $100 billion, offered a trove of stories for journalists to dig into. First, it brought down the veil on some of the basic facts [...]
An online poll on whether Manmohan Singh’s government will be able to get back on course after facing mid-air turbulence due to the 2G scam shows surprising results. At the time of writing, a neat 50 percent of respondents exuded confidence that aftershocks were transitory and would not lead to mid-air breakup of the political [...]
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SANS Mentor Program partners with Lorain County Community College to offer Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling courses View full post on SANS Press Room
SANS Institute to Host Inagural Mobile Device Security Summit View full post on SANS Press Room
