Hacker Suspect ‘Worked from Bunker’ Belfast Telegraph A Dutch citizen arrested in north-east Spain on suspicion of launching what is described as the biggest cyberattack in internet history operated from a bunker and had a van capable of hac

Hotels too Often Leave People Vulnerable to Identity Theft  HeraldNet By: Christopher Elliott  Large hotel chains will post their data protection policies online, “but they won’t make much sense to the average consumer,” said Richard Ald

Romania Believes Rival Nation Behind “MiniDuke” Cyber Attack Reuters By: Ioana Patran BUCHAREST – Romania believes another state was behind the “MiniDuke” cyber attack that hit its national security institutions as well as NATO and oth

Swartz Suicide Shines Light on Federal Anti-Hacking Law Computerworld By: Jaikumar Vijayan The suicide of Internet activist and pioneer Aaron Swartz has focused attention on what some activists say is the overzealous use of the federal Computer

FIRST ROUND TO EMPLOYER IN CASE OF ALLEGED DATA THEFT BY EMPLOYEE At the end of 2012, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion allowing an employer in Connecticut to bring suit in Connecticut against its employee for electronic data

Cyber Security Predictions 2013 BusinessTechGrant Brown, security practices expert at Symantec says that, as organisations and consumers increasingly rely on online platforms to drive interactions with one another, the risk of malicious attacks

Report: French Officials Accuse US of Hacking Sarkozy’s Computers The Hill By: Julian PecquetThe United States used U.S.-Israeli spy software to hack into the French presidential office earlier this year, the French cyber-warfare agency has co

NYSE Hires Former Homeland Security Chief Chicago TribuneNYSE Euronext hired former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to make sure sensitive exchange data were not breached after U.S. securities regulators left their computers unencry

US SEC Staffers Used Govn’t Computers for Personal Use – Report Reuters India By: Sarah N. LynchThe report also found that the staffers failed to protect their computers and devices from hackers, even as they were urging exchanges and cleari

Illinois Nursing Home Residents’ Data Stolen 10TV CHICAGO (AP) – The personal information of 508 Illinois nursing home residents was inside a stolen briefcase, prompting the state agency overseeing Medicaid to notify the people affected by t