News tagged with intelligence services

British anti-terror hotline breached by hackers: police

Hackers have recorded calls between staff manning Britain's anti-terrorist hotline, Scotland Yard revealed Thursday, in the second security breach involving the force in recent months.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Apple out to kill widespread Macintosh virus

Apple said it is crafting a weapon to vanquish a Flashback virus from Macintosh computers and working to disrupt the command network being used by hackers behind the infections. ...

Technology / Software

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 2.1 / 5 (7) | comments 5

British interior ministry probes website attack

Britain's Home Office interior ministry said Saturday it was investigating reports that hacking group Anonymous had attacked its website over the government's plans to boost Internet surveillance.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Laptop theft did not put space station in peril: NASA

A stolen US space agency laptop containing codes that control the International Space Station did not put the orbiting lab in peril, a NASA spokesman said on Friday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Internet service prevents cable tangle in presentations at conferences

To connect a laptop to an additional monitor, projector or even to a monitor wall, a special cable was required, until now. Researchers of the Saarland University's Intel Visual Computing Institute overcome ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hackers take aim at Nasdaq, Bats websites

Hackers have targeted the public websites of the operators of the Nasdaq and Bats stock exchanges over the past two days with cyberattacks that disrupted the sites but had no impact on trading.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hackers claim to take down US tear gas maker site

The "Anonymous" hacking group on Tuesday claimed to have shut down the website of security firm Combined Systems, which it accused of providing the tear gas used in crackdowns on protests.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Anonymous briefly knocks CIA website offline (Update 2)

The website of the Central Intelligence Agency was briefly inaccessible on Friday after the hacker group Anonymous claimed to have knocked it offline.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 29

Believing the impossible and conspiracy theories

Distrust and paranoia about government has a long history, and the feeling that there is a conspiracy of elites can lead to suspicion for authorities and the claims they make. For some, the attraction of conspiracy theories ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 64

Romania, FBI agents to crack down on cybercriminals

On computer screens and on the ground, Romanian and American FBI agents stalk cybercriminals, trying to beat them at their own game as fraud originating in Romania has risen dramatically.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Norway hit by major data-theft attack

(AP) -- Data from Norway's oil and defense industries may have been stolen in what is feared to be one of the most extensive data espionage cases in the country's history, security officials said Thursday.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Israel denies cyber attack on defence websites

The websites of Israel's military, Mossad and the Shin Bet intelligence services were back online on Monday after being unavailable the previous day due to what officials said was a "server crash."

Technology / Internet

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Israel army, intel websites down after hacker threat

The websites of Israel's army and intelligence services were down Sunday, two days after a hacker group appeared to threaten the Jewish state over its interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 06, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 18

US report blasts China, Russia for cybercrime

(AP) -- Cyberattacks by Chinese and Russian intelligence services, as well corporate hackers in those countries, have swallowed up large amounts of high-tech American research and development data, and that stolen information ...

Technology / Internet

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 16

BlackBerry 'puts monitoring centre' in India

Research In Motion (RIM) has set up a facility in Mumbai to help the Indian government conduct surveillance checks on the company's BlackBerry services, the Wall Street Journal said on Friday.

Technology / Business

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