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UMUC team to compete in global cybersecurity contest
A team from the University of Maryland University College is heading to Barcelona to represent North America in the Global CyberLympics competition later this month.
Lockheed waits for hacker-threat sharing as breaches rise
President Barack Obama’s plan to protect the U.S. from hackers was supposed to let more companies access classified data on computer threats so banks, utilities and other targets would be able to boost their cybersecurity. Fourteen months later, it hasn’t happened.
Johns Hopkins data spilled in ‘extortion’ attempt
The names, email addresses and telephone numbers of as many as 1,200 current and former Johns Hopkins University biomedical engineering students were posted online after a hacker's failed extortion attempt aimed at gaining broader access to the school's computer network, the university said Friday.
Hacking group activist’s posts land him in trouble
DALLAS — Barrett Brown has, at times, called himself an author, a freedom fighter and a spokesman for the movement of hacker-activists known as Anonymous. In tweets and videos, Brown […]
‘SDAnon’ hit with lawsuit
An Australian “theological detective” with a team of hired hackers stole thousands of digitized pages of unpublished documents belonging to the estate of the co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a federal lawsuit alleges.
Lessons learned from a phone scam
Last week, my cell phone started ringing incessantly. By “incessantly,” I mean every two seconds. The numbers that came through were not 10-digit numbers, but sometimes 15-to-20 digits. When I answered, […]
Alleged leaker case more tech than military
FORT MEADE —Interested in the biggest leak of U.S. secrets in the nation’s history, but don’t know a firewall log from a server file? Then you would have been up […]
Steven I. Platt: Interest-group politics run amok in America
What happens when interest group politics gets out of control? Well, we’re witnessing it, are we not, faithful readers? Ironically, the most interesting analysis of what we’re observing is arguably […]
