Scientists devise cyber security ‘neighborhood watch’

September 13th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Aiming to prevent cyber crimes in the country, students in Hyderabad are learning and mastering the intricacies of cyber security. In the fast developing countries where information technology (IT) has reached the apex, the security of data compiled, stored and transmitted is of utmost import.

September 13th, 2009 HYDERABAD - An increasing number of students are drawn to learn cyber security as they foresee a bright future in this upcoming field. With information technology (IT) gaining popularity the security of data compiled, stored and transmitted is of utmost import.

September 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have developed a security language to protect home networks from cyber attacks. Companies, banks and other organisations take internet security very seriously, erecting firewalls and IT departments to protect them from attacks.

June 25th, 2009 LONDON - Britain's Security Minister, Lord West, has issued a warning about terrorists' intentions of using the internet to launch a cyber-warfare campaign against the UK. Lord West issued the warning as he published the Government's new Cyber Security Strategy aimed at heading off online threats.

September 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Korean computer scientists have developed a novel security language for home networks that could ward off cyber attack in homes. Like companies, banks, and other big organizations, domestic and small office networks are just as vulnerable to hacking, malicious computer code, worms, viruses, and eavesdropping.

September 20th, 2009 LONDON - British intelligence agency MI5 has hired many teenage hackers for its new secret operation to combat cyber terrorism. At least 50 new computer-savvy hackers, including many teenagers, have been roped in the newly formed Cyber Operations Command, and they had to sign the Official Secrets Act, the Sunday Express reports.

October 8th, 2009 LONDON - A series of online competitions are being planned in Britain with the objective of converting would be computer hackers into cyber security "top guns". Competition organizers said that they are hoping to emulate a similar scheme that is on in the United States.

May 29th, 2009 Obama setting up better security for computersWASHINGTON — America has for too long failed to adequately protect the security of its computer networks, President Barack Obama said Friday, announcing he will name a new cyber czar to take on the job. Surrounded by a host of government officials, aides and corporate executives, Obama said this is a "transformational moment" for the country, where computer networks are probed and attacked millions of times a day.

April 14th, 2009 LONDON - With a rise in cyber frauds, criminals can now purchase full personal identities for "less than a can of cola", according to an Internet security firm. The annual Symantec Internet Security Threat Report revealed that the market for stolen personal information, including credit card details, names addresses and dates of birth, grew to such an extent last year that it led to a price war of sorts.

April 21st, 2009 Hackers have breached jet fighter program WASHINGTON — A defense official says cyber hackers nearly two years ago breached a high-tech jet fighter program developed for the Pentagon by Lockheed Martin Corp. but classified information was not compromised.

May 22nd, 2009 KOLKATA - In order to tackle cyber crime, the Kolkata police joined hands with the Public Relations Society of India, Kolkata Chapter and Calcutta Telephones and organised a workshop here to spread awareness about cyber security. Cyber crime still remains a vague phenomenon for most Internet users, as they are not aware as to what actually constitutes cyber crime and what laws are against it.

April 8th, 2009 Chinese and Russian cyber spies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, according to current and former national-security officials.

June 24th, 2009 LONDON - The British Prime Minister is set to announce the appointment of the nation's first cyber security chief who will be responsible to protect the country from terrorist computer hackers and electronic espionage. Brown's decision comes amid fears that the computer systems of government and business are vulnerable to online attacks from hostile countries and terrorist organisations.

April 16th, 2009 Police have started a massive drive across Gujarat's cities and towns to check the records of visitors to the various cyber cafes as a precautionary measure ahead of the polling for the state's 26 Lok Sabha seats April 30. A senior police official involved with the drive here told IANS that police constables on various beats have started carrying out checking of the visitor entries made in the logbooks of cyber cafes in about 25,000 cafes across Gujarat.'The records are being checked from the month of March this year,' the official added.

July 18th, 2009 LONDON - Experts have warned that hackers may have created a network of "zombie" cellphones, similar to a network of virus-infected personal computers, to send spam or carry out cyber attacks. 'Botnets' is the term that computer scientists use for such networks of computers.