Online Hacking

India's Central Monitoring System: Security can't come at cost of privacy

The limited information available about the central monistoring system project has raised serious concerns about its need and the consequences of government snooping on such a mass scale.

Saudi Arabia says hackers sabotage government websites

Several government websites in Saudi Arabia were sabotaged in a series of heavy cyber attacks from abroad in recent days, disabling them briefly...

U.S. charges eight in $45 million cyber crime scheme

The U.S. government charged eight individuals with using data obtained by hacking into two credit card processors in a worldwide scheme...

Speed traders eyed after Twitter hack attack, US regulator says

The phony tweet from the Associated Press' hacked Twitter account, which sparked a short-lived panic in the stock market a week ago by saying...

Dutch man arrested in connection with cyber attack on Spamhaus

A 35-year-old Dutch man has been arrested in Barcelona by Spanish police over last month's massive cyber attack which disrupted global internet services...