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Accused British hacker charged in US over LulzSec attacks  14 June 2012 
Source: MSNBC - Posted by Dave Wreski   
An alleged member of the LulzSec hacking group who prosecutors say targeted the Fox and PBS television networks and Sony's film and TV studio has been indicted in Los Angeles on federal charges, federal authorities said on Wednesday.
 
David Benjamin Schrooten, aka "Fortezza," Dutch hacker, pleads not guilty  12 June 2012 
Source: CBS News - Posted by Dave Wreski   
In an investigation that spanned from a Seattle restaurant to Romania, a 21-year-old Dutch national pleaded not guilty Monday to federal computer hacking charges that include the theft of at least 44,000 credit card numbers.
 
Open source and the National Security Agency, together again  29 May 2012 
Source: ZDNet Blogs - Posted by Dave Wreski   
The Open Source Software Institute, a non-profit group that supports open-source adoption and the National Security Agency (NSA), the organization in charge of all out of country eavesdropping, will co-host an Open Source Software Industry Day on Wednesday, May 30, 2012.
 
Supreme Court Declines Case of Student Fined $675K for File Sharing  22 May 2012 
Source: PC World - Posted by Dave Wreski   
The Supreme Court today refused to hear the case of a college student who was fined more than half a million dollars for illegally downloading 30 songs.
 
Court Upholds Google-NSA Relationship Secrecy  14 May 2012 
Source: Wired - Posted by Dave Wreski   
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the National Security Agency’s decision to withhold from the public documents confirming or denying any relationship it has with Google concerning encryption and cybersecurity.
 
Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement  04 May 2012 
Source: Wired - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Federal authorities who seized a popular hip-hop music site based on assertions from the Recording Industry Association of America that it was linking to four “pre-release” music tracks gave it back more than a year later without filing civil or criminal charges because of apparent recording industry delays in confirming infringement, according to court records obtained by Wired.
 
CISPA Clears The House, What’s Next And What It Means  30 April 2012 
Source: redOrbit - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Much has been made of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) lately, and last week (April 26), it passed through the House of Representatives. Like other cyber-security bills, CISPA is likely to be stalled in the Senate for a while. After that, President Obama has said he will veto the bill, shooting it down and protecting our privacy. Or will he?
 
Anonymous Takes Action Following Passage Of CISPA Bill By House  30 April 2012 
Source: Dark Reading - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Following last week's passage of the controversial CISPA cybersecurity bill by the U.S. House of Representatives, the hacktivist group Anonymous is calling for protests and threatening to attack multiple organizations.
 
Security Experts, Internet Engineers Urge Lawmakers to Drop CISPA  24 April 2012 
Source: ThreatPost - Posted by Dave Wreski   
A long list of security, networking and computer science experts have signed a letter sent to lawmakers on Monday, asking them to drop support for CISPA and other proposed cybersecurity bills because they consider the measures overly broad and say they would infringe on users' privacy and civil liberties.
 
Ohio ‘Anonymous’ member, 21, pleads not guilty  17 April 2012 
Source: Washington Post - Posted by Alex   
An Ohio man linked to the hacker collective “Anonymous” pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of breaching the websites of the Utah Chiefs of Police Association and the Salt Lake City Police Department.
 
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