WASHINGTON DC - Anonymous had a busy weekend. The loose-knit hacking collective, which last week scored a coup against the FBI, claimed to have taken down the CIA's Web site on Friday, in what appeared to be a distributed denial of service attack (one of the group's specialties, such relatively unsophisticated attacks paralyze Web servers
OAKLAND, Ca. - In response to what it claims is a series of community-busting moves by the California city's leaders and police, such as Occupy Oakland-related arrests and crackdowns, budget cutting and school, park, and library closings unaccompanied by City Hall salary cuts, the hacktivist group released a document containing personal data on a number
SAN FRANCISCO - In a string of attacks, members of the digital activist group Anonymous apparently hacked into the Web site of defense lawyers for a U.S. Marine accused of leading a civilian massacre in Iraq, and have reportedly acquired e-mails exchanged by attorneys in the case. They also reportedly: published the names, addresses and
SAN FRANCISCO - One of the welcome features in OS X Lion was the replacement of Apple's first-generation FileVault file encryption technology, which only encrypted the home folder, with a new whole-disk encryption approach. Unlike the first FileVault, which required a number of workarounds and still had compatibility problems with various programs and utilities, the
COOPERSVILLE - IT Resource is hosting a webinar focusing on data backup, data recovery, and business continuity services on February 15 from 12-1pm. Participate in the webinar from your own desk, or join IT Resource at 701 W. Randall, Suite C, Coopersville, where lunch will be provided. The webinar will focus on helping businesses recover
SAN FRANCISCO - Symantec is urging customers to disable PCAnywhere until it issues a software update to protect them against attacks that could result from the theft of the product's source code. Someone broke into Symantec's network in 2006 and stole source code for PCAnywhere, which allows customers to remotely connect to other computers, as
DENVER - American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their PGP-scrambled hard drives for police to peruse for incriminating files, a federal judge in Colorado ruled in what could become a precedent-setting case. Judge Robert Blackburn ordered a Peyton, Colo., woman to decrypt the hard drive of a Toshiba laptop computer no later than February
SAN FRANCISCO - If you clicked a link distributed by Anonymous a few days ago, you may have unwittingly helped the online activists in their attacks against U.S. government and entertainment industry sites that were organized to protest proposed antipiracy legislation. Anonymous has launched distributed denial-of-service attacks, designed to shut down Web sites, against government
SAN FRANCISCO - McAfee is looking into a problem with a service in its SaaS Endpoint Protection software that appears to be allowing computers to serve as open proxies for sending spam, the company told CNET. A McAfee customer posted on a Microsoft Technet forum that "McAfee has developed a patch that will instruct rumor
BIRMINGHAM - Wired's Danger Room is reporting that General Keith Alexander is throwing in the towel. In an address to the FBI sponsored International Conference on Cyber Security he is quoted: "15,000 enclaves: You can't see 'em all. You cannot defend them all," Alexander told an FBI-sponsored gathering of law enforcement and cybersecurity professionals at