Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, which honours Japan’s war dead, including some Class A war criminals from the second world war, came under attack from hackers, with its pages altered to show a Chinese national flag, Japanese media reported yesterday

Hackers Acting Faster, Study Concludes - PC World
Zero-day malware accounted for 26 percent of blocked threats in November, says web security firm ScanSafe. In its monthly Global Threat Report, ScanSafe said the rate of zero-day malware blocks increased in November to 26 percent of blocks, compared

Chinese lawmakers consider tough penalties on hackers - Xinhua News Agency
BEIJING, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) — Computer hackers could meet tough penalties under a draft amendment of the criminal law being debated by China’s top legislature. The draft amendment under review by the Standing Committee of the National People’s

Subway Fare Hackers To Partner with Transit Agency - Data Storage Today
Before they could take the stage at the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas in August, the students were slapped with a lawsuit and a restraining order preventing them from giving the talk. Everyone found out what they were going to say anyway: All

Subway hackers to partner with transit agency - MSNBC
SAN FRANCISCO - A trio of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who found a way to hack into the Boston subway system’s payment cards have agreed to partner with transit officials there to make the system more secure. The Electronic Frontier

A 5-year U.S. terror forecast - Philiy.com
WASHINGTON - The terrorism threat to the United States over the next five years will be driven by instability in the Middle East and Africa, persistent challenges to border security, and increasing Internet savvy, a new intelligence assessment says

Homeland Security forecasts 5-year terror threats - Yahoo News
WASHINGTON The terrorism threat to the United States over the next five years will be driven by instability in the Middle East and Africa, persistent challenges to border security and increasing Internet savvy, says a new intelligence assessment

Homeland Security assessment predicts terror threats over next 5 years - Syracuse Post-Standard
Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear attacks are considered the most dangerous threats that could be carried out against the U.S. But those threats are also the most unlikely because it is so difficult for al-Qaida and similar groups to

Hackers strikes LCCC system - Chronicle-Telegram
ELYRIA A sophisticated computer hacker was able to breach the security system of two Lorain County Community College servers in an attack during the Thanksgiving holiday break. It is believed that the hacker was not attempting to steal

Someone’s in the kitchen with DNA - Chicago Sun-Times
SAN FRANCISCO — The Apple computer was invented in a garage. Same with the Google search engine. Now, tinkerers are working at home with the basic building blocks of life itself. Using homemade lab equipment and the wealth of scientific knowledge

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