It’s called the Dark Web and once you are in you can buy people, drugs, guns and even have someone killed. The problem is: what can law enforcers do about it? Deep in cyberspace is a web of private networks hosting sites that Google will never find and videos that YouTube will never play. Within…
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14 January, 2012 by
St Michael in Uncategorized
HACKERS in China rifled the computers of DuPont at least twice in 2009 and 2010, hunting for the secrets that made the company one of the world’s most successful chemical makers. But investors would have learned nothing on the subject from DuPont’s regulatory filings, or from those of other companies victimised by hackers. The documents…
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2 September, 2011 by
St Michael in Uncategorized
ASIO and other government agencies are sifting through leaked documents to determine the impact on Australian interests of a cyberattack on WikiLeaks. The website crashed in an apparent cyber attack on Tuesday after an accelerated publication of tens of thousands of US State Department cables. Attorney General Robert McClelland said it appeared a significant number…
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4 August, 2011 by
St Michael in Uncategorized
A TEENAGER accused of acting as a spokesman for computer hacking groups that targeted Sony, Rupert Murdoch-owned newspapers and a British crime agency was freed on bail as he awaits trial. Jake Davis, who was arrested last week at home on Scotland’s remote Shetland Islands by the police e-crime unit, is accused of mounting a…
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31 May, 2011 by
St Michael in Uncategorized
THE killing of Osama bin Laden was a symbolic victory but will not diminish the terrorist threat to Australia, even as the dangers posed by cyber espionage and cyber theft continue to grow, the head of Australia’s most powerful spy agency says. ”The threat of terrorism in Australia is real and it is persistent,” said…
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27 March, 2011 by
St Michael in Uncategorized
POLICE have refused to comment on the existence of a WikiLeaks cable alleging that up to 23 active terrorism suspects remain in Victoria. Sources told the Sunday Herald Sun a briefing took place between Victorian and federal police and a local US consular official after Operation Neath in 2009. That operation’s raids on members of…
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17 March, 2011 by
St Michael in Uncategorized
Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, has warned that the internet was the “greatest spying machine the world has ever seen” and an obstacle to free speech. Speaking to students at Britain’s prestigious Cambridge University, the former computer hacker claimed that the internet, particularly social networking sites such as Facebook, gave governments greater…
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3 March, 2011 by
St Michael in Uncategorized
BHP Billiton chief executive Marius Kloppers has confirmed reports that he is fearful of espionage from China, competitors such as Rio Tinto and the Australian government, saying it is one reason why he lobbied furiously for short-term pricing of key commodities. On Tuesday, The Age revealed secret WikiLeaks cables between Mr Kloppers and the US…
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