Hacktivism tops 2011 data breach causes - iT News

By Darren Pauli on Mar 26, 2012 11:10 AM (3 hours ago) Hacktivism was responsible for more data breaches than financially motivated cybercrime last year, accounting for more than 100 million of the total 174 million stolen records tracked by the 2012 ...

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How to combat sex trafficking in massage parlors - Washington Times

However, the recent success against the sex trade in massage parlors in Georgia demonstrates that there may be a path to combat the crime without employing extensive manpower. The case of Macon city, Georgia, demonstrates that stringent law helps local ...

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Hashtag activism, and its limits - NDTV

The ongoing referendum on the Web often seems more like a kind of collective digital graffiti than a measure of engagement: I saw this thing, it spoke to me for at least one second, and here is my mark to prove it. But it gets more complicated when the ...

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At Belmont, a Place to Keep the Workers' Children Safe - New York Times (blog)

By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI Earl Wilson/The New York TimesMaria Guevara with her daughter, Karla Laureano, 3, who attends a day care center at Belmont race track for the children of track workers. Maria Flores and her husband, Marco Muñoz, finished work one ...

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Activists 'commit more data breaches than cybercriminals' - TODAYonline

Activists such as Anonymous who hack into government and corporate computer networks and then release files to embarrass those organisations were responsible for more than half of all known data thefts last year, according to a new survey.

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Data Breach Costs Drop - InformationWeek

The study also found that the number of data breaches that were caused by malicious attacks increased from 31% in 2010 to 37% in 2011. The leading cause (in 50% of cases) was malware, followed by malicious insiders (33%), device theft (28%), ...

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Hollywood studios plan to sue internet users - New Zealand Herald

They have told the company which owns the servers holding Megaupload's data it has to keep information about members who illegally uploaded movies online in case it wants to sue them later. It is the latest stage in the courtroom battle following the ...

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