Cyberspies Target Silent Victims
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Military contractors may be concealing data breaches by international cyberspies.
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Despite growing fears about online fraud, a new study finds that most cases of identity theft originate offline.
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(InfoWorld) - An organization in Mumbai, India has proposed that police use key-logging software at cybercafÃ©s to keep track of communications between terrorists. Public computers at cybercafes offer terrorists the anonymity they require, said Vijay Mukhi, president of the Foundation for Information Security and Technology (FIST) in Mumbai in a telephone interview late Tuesday. Terrorists are known to use instant messengers (IM) from companies like Microsoft and Yahoo, and these companies do not share information from IM chats with the police, he added. Keyloggers are software on a computer that record a user's key strokes -- whatever the user types -- on a computer keyboard. Data from keyloggers will be uploaded to centralized servers where it will be available to the police for scrutiny. The move does not as yet have the approval of the Mumbai police. The keyloggers would be activated centrally as and when a suspect walks into a cyber cafÃ© or when suspicious activity is noted, Mukhi said. A number of bloggers have criticized Mukhi's proposal, saying it will put personal data of ordinary individuals at risk. But some other blogs said that it is too small a price to pay to protect against loss of life from terrorism. The police should put in place a mechanism for citizens to seek redress from any misuse of their private information, Mukhi said. Bomb blasts by terrorists have killed a large number of people in the country. In July last year, seven bombs planted in Mumbai's suburban trains killed over 200 people and injured another 700. Terrorists are increasingly using the Internet to communicate with one another, as they are aware that telephone and mobile phones connections are under Indian government surveillance, according to Mukhi. FIST, a non-profit organization in Mumbai, is focused onÂ cybersecurityÂ and has worked with the police on related issues. It aims to get keyloggers on computers in cybercafes throughout India, Mukhi said.
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Careless security measures invite cybercrooks and scammers, researchers say.
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Most consumers have no firewall protection, their antivirus software is outdated, and dozens of spyware programs secretly run on their computers, America Online and the National Cyber Security Alliance found.
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MILAN, Italy -- In an age of spy satellites, security cameras and an Internet that stores every keystroke, terrorism suspects are using simple, low-tech tricks to cloak their communications, making life difficult for authorities who had hoped technology would give them the upper hand.
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Cyber rights hacking group creates browser that makes it possible to surf the net anonymously.
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Antivirus vendors report the threat to users is minimal now that the code is offline.
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Under mounting public pressure, MySpace.com had little choice but to hand over to state authorities information on registered sex offenders who might cruise the Internet to lure unsuspecting youngsters.  But more remains to be done to protect the vulnerable from online predators.
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A new study from the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and America Online (AOL) paints a dire picture of the state of security in the land of the home PC.
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Cyber warfare's collateral damage You may or may not have picked up the news that Estonia came under cyber-attack in early May. Cyber attacks, usually consisting of multiple denial of service attacks, are pretty bloodless really.â¦
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Six days a week, teens crowd the Blue Screen Gaming cybercafe to hunt each other down with assault rifles inside virtual computer worlds. In these video game halls, nobody gets hurt...
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Plan to target websites that 'groom' terrorists
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Nearly a third of online teens say they have been harassed on the Internet, with girls and participants of social-networking sites more likely to be targets, a study finds.
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'It's war out there' says Symantec report Consumers are now on the main target of malicious hackers intent on enriching themselves through the misery of others. Vulnerabilities in desktop applications and the increased use of stealth techniques are on the rise among members of the digital underground, according to the latest edition of Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report.â¦
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Though communications protections exist, the law is fuzzy regarding internet and e-mail activity. Watch out for the legalization of digital mind readers tracing internet users' thoughts and interests, and trampling privacy rights in the process.
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New York sex offenders would be required to reveal their online aliases to the state under legislation that aims to protect users of MySpace, FaceBook and other Web hangouts from Internet predators.