A Kentucky agency has created a task force aimed at preventing financial cybercrime. The task force’s focus will be to protect both the financial services industry and the public. The group was formed recently by the state Department of Financial …
A British intelligence report said Wednesday that other nations are hiring hackers to launch attacks against their enemies, a trend it described as particularly worrying. The warning over cybermercenaries came in an annual report published by Britain’s Intelligence and Security …
The FBI’s Washington field office has created a squad dedicated to investigating intellectual property thefts, part of a more aggressive law enforcement approach to cybercrime, an official said Friday. The squad started this month, with agents pulled from varied areas …
Cyber-attacks by Chinese and Russian intelligence services, as well corporate hackers in those countries, have swallowed up large amounts of high-tech American research and development data, and that stolen information has helped build their economies, U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded. …
British police have filed charges against a teen suspected of involvement in cyberattacks on the CIA website. Police said Wednesday 19-year-old Ryan Cleary has been charged with several offenses under the Computer Misuse Act. One of the charges relates to …