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 [...]
Listen to internet radio with nationalcybersecurity on Blog Talk Radio To combat the growing problem of cyber crime, Google has decided to take matters into its own hands. Yesterday in the US, it started Good to Know, a consumer education campaign the internet giant is hoping will make the web a safer place. A suspected [...]
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 [...]
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Janice K. Fedarcyk, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) announced today the unsealing of a complaint charging BO ZHANG, a computer programmer, with stealing proprietary software code from the Federal [...]
Reuters – Symantec Corp, the top maker of computer security software, reported a higher quarterly profit and issued an outlook in line with Wall Street estimates. View full post on Yahoo! News: Security News
In an effort to crack down on hacker/stock traders who hijack brokerage accounts and exploit the stock market for gain, the Securities and Exchange Commission has, in a novel move, gone after four online trading companies and eight executives who they say helped a Latvian hacker make more than $850,000 from fraudulent trades. View full [...]
(click for larger image and for full slideshow) Building the architecture necessary to prevent another Wikileaks might take several years, director of national intelligence James Clapper said at an event Thursday in Washington, D.C. The Wikileaks scandal, in which 260,000 diplomatic cables, many of them sensitive, were burned onto CD-RWs and later published online, has [...]
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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 [...]
Jonathan Zdziarski is better known as the hacker “NerveGas” in the iOSdevelopment community. His work in cracking the iPhone helped lead theeffort to port the first open source applications to it, and his bookiPhone Open Application Development taught developers how to writeapplications for the popular device long before Apple introduced itsown SDK. Jonathan is also [...]
Matt Neuburg has a PhD in Classics and has taught at many universities and colleges. He has been programming computers since 1968. He has written applications for Mac OS X and iOS, is a former editor of MacTech Magazine, and is a long-standing contributing editor for TidBITS. His previous O’Reilly books are Frontier: The Definitive [...]
Comments about O’Reilly Media An Introduction to iOS Programming: From Getting the SDK to Submitting Your First App: Introduction to iOS Programming is a practical guide to iOS programming and to becoming Apple Developer in general. It is divided into few parts: how to become a developer, how to write simple application (start developing using [...]
Comments about O’Reilly Media Learning Python, 4th Edition: Personally, I have not finished reading it yet, but oh man I don’t know about anyone else, but it is a hard read. It made me feel like a slow reader, but after doing about 4 or 5 online speed reading tests, I am average, I read [...]
Comments about oreilly Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition: Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition By Jeffrey E. F. Friedl Third Edition August 2006 Pages: 542 Series: Adobe Developer Library ISBN: 0-596-52812-4 Description Written in the lucid, entertaining tone that makes a complex, dry topic become crystal-clear to programmers, and sprinkled with solutions to complex real-world problems, [...]
(L-R) Matilda Carlberg, 11, Jessica Barallon, 13 Sophie Carlberg, 16, and Lili Barallon, 11 talk about the tips they’ve been given to avoid bullying at school. Picture: Kristi Miller Source: The Daily Telegraph AS the end of the school holidays looms, psychologists are becoming increasingly worried about cyber bullying, particularly among girls. Research has found [...]
(L-R) Matilda Carlberg, 11, Jessica Barallon, 13 Sophie Carlberg, 16, and Lili Barallon, 11 talk about the tips they’ve been given to avoid bullying at school. Picture: Kristi Miller Source: The Daily Telegraph AS the end of the school holidays looms, psychologists are becoming increasingly worried about cyber bullying, particularly among girls. Research has found [...]
BULLIES: (L-R) Matilda Carlberg, 11, Jessica Barallon, 13 Sophie Carlberg, 16, and Lili Barallon, 11 talk about the tips they’ve been given to avoid bullying at school. Picture: Kristi Miller. Source: The Daily Telegraph AS the end of the school holidays looms, psychologists are becoming increasingly worried about cyber bullying, particularly among girls. Research has [...]
(L-R) Matilda Carlberg, 11, Jessica Barallon, 13 Sophie Carlberg, 16, and Lili Barallon, 11 talk about the tips they’ve been given to avoid bullying at school. Picture: Kristi Miller Source: The Daily Telegraph SCHOOLGIRLS are increasingly using the web to bully other female students, who don’t speak up for fear of losing their computers. Research [...]
AUBURN — The Auburn school board and four school resource officers used a portion of Tuesday’s meeting to talk to parents about cyber-bullying. Auburn Enlarged City School District Superintendent J.D. Pabis said since board meetings are televised a few times, more audiences might be able to benefit from the information. Auburn Police Sgt. Greg Dann [...]
As school safety liaison for Worcester public schools, bullying and cyber bullying are all too real and all too common for Robert F. Pezzella. ‘ A typical scenario, Mr. Pezzella said, is a group of girls using Facebook at home to confront or threaten another girl about stealing a boyfriend. “They’re typing away and because [...]
Facebook and the U.S. state of Washington (WA) are suing Adscend Media, accusing them of a practice called “clickjacking,” which fools users of the No. 1 social network service into visiting advertising sites, revealing personal information and spreading the scam to others. The lawsuit alleges that Adscend Media has profited more than $1 million per [...]
Better Business Bureau investigates thousands of scams every year, from the latest gimmicks to schemes as old as the hills. The new Scam Source ( www.bbb.org/scam) is a comprehensive resource on scam investigations from BBBs around the country, with tips from BBB, law enforcement and others. Consumers can sign up to receive our Scam Alerts [...]
Facebook and the state of Washington have sued they accused of a practice called "clickjacking" that fools users of the world's top social network into visiting advertising sites, divulging personal information and spreading the scam to friends. View full post on social media scam – Yahoo! News Search Results
Facebook takes on” Clickjackers” Friday, January 27 07:35:22 Facebook and the state of Washington sued a company on Thursday they accused of a practice called “clickjacking” that fools users of the world’s top social network into visiting advertising sites, divulging personal information and spreading the scam to friends. The scheme, also known as “likejacking” because [...]
Facebook and the state of Washington sued a company on Thursday they accused of a practice called "clickjacking" that fools users of the world's top social network into visiting advertising sites, divulging personal information and spreading the scam to friends. View full post on social media scam – Yahoo! News Search Results
SEATTLE, Jan 27 — Facebook and the state of Washington sued a company yesterday they accused of a practice called “clickjacking” that fools users of the world’s top social network into visiting advertising sites, divulging personal information and spreading the scam to friends. The scheme, also known as “likejacking” because victims are tricked … View [...]
CVEs: CVE: CVE-2012-0329 Platform: Cross Platform View full post on @RISK: The Consensus Security Alert
Category: Widely Deployed Software Affected: Google Chrome prior to 18.0.1017.2 View full post on @RISK: The Consensus Security Alert
A former University of Connecticut student has been arrested after police found 96 pictures and 26 video files of child pornography on his computer. View full post on computer forensic – Yahoo! News Search Results
