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Obama Outlines New Cybersecurity Strategy

President Obama has just announced a plan to tighten up Cybersecurity in the US, including the creation of the new cabinet-level position of “Cybersecurity Czar.” The job of the “Czar” will be a tough one indeed: protecting the nation from serious cyber-attacks, and devising responses and [...]

FBI Report: Internet Fraud Up Sharply

According to a recently released FBI report, 2008 was a record year for online fraud, with Internet fraud complaints rising an astonishing 33% over the previous year. ITWorld.com is reporting that the Federal Bureau of investigation processed over 275,000 new complaints in 2008. The dollar lost [...]

Tough New Anti-Piracy Law Halves Web Traffic in Sweden

Illegal file sharers seem to be running scared in Sweden after the enactment of a new tough anti-piracy law last week that streamlines the process of prosecuting for copyright infringement, based on computer IP addresses. The new law, considered by many to be the toughest anti-piracy regulation in [...]

FBI Indicts European Hackers for 2003 Attacks

Two European hackers have been indicted by a US grand jury for a devastating denial-of-service Internet attack back in 2003. The indictments are part of the FBI’s ongoing “Operation Cyberslam,” which was established in 2003 after a series of vicious hacker attacks knocked both [...]

E-Commerce is Booming, but so are Internet Scams

This decade will likely go down in history as the time when online commerce finally came into its own. Even in 2008, with a sluggish US economy, online revenue has been brisk for many companies, and studies show that public acceptance of buying online has reached a new high mark. But as e-commerce [...]