Russia: Analysis of hacker attacks on bloggers.

Over the last five years, more than 40 RuNet bloggers have become targets of hacker attacks, most of which were carried out by a group of hackers named The Brigade of Hell. The hackers' targets have been both political and commercial bloggers. After defacing and deleting content of their victims, hackers have received no punishment.
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Hacker Accused Of Video Extortion

The FBI says that female victims were spied on with their Web cams and pressured to provide explicit videos.
A 31-year-old resident of Santa Ana, California, was arrested earlier this week on charges that he hacked into computers, stole personal data on the machines and then demanded sexually explicit videos from female victims as a condition for not disseminating other explicit and personal data.
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Apple is the new hacker bulls-eye.

When Apple was just a niche maker of Mac computers and only truly popular among college students and graphic designers, hackers paid little attention to the company. Instead, they focused on Microsoft, which had more than a 90% share of the PC operating system market.

Those days are over.
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The Pentagon has unveiled a Cyber Command center

War is coming -- a war of ones and zeroes, that is.



The Pentagon has unveiled a Cyber Command center, designed to shield the military's 15,000 networks and more than 7 million computers from foreign hacker attacks, that will pool resources from a variety of military intelligence agencies to proactively prevent assaults.



It's a pre-emptive, all-out attack on the more than 100 foreign intelligence agencies working to penetrate American computer systems and steal U.S. weapons technology.

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