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Bucking the trend of declines in spam last week, a new socially engineered attack is making the rounds. A hacker who compromised phone systems for the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) left the government with a US$12,000 phone bill. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) will receive a technology boost in the fight against child predators and paedophiles with the launch of an online tracking system, developed and donated by Microsoft. A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered the disabling of a website that discloses confidential information, a precedent-setting ruling that may raise a legal challenge to the growing online black market in purloined data while testing First Amendment rights. A Federal judge's decision last week to reverse his own ruling and lift what he had declared was a "permanent" injunction shutting the Wikileaks.org site for posting bank documents has been hailed by civil liberties lawyers as an important benchmark in applying First Amendment protections to such sites. Two congressmen on Monday introduced a bipartisan cybersecurity bill that proponents say will modernise regulations while providing law enforcement with more resources to investigate and prosecute criminals. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Telstra will increase cooperative efforts to reduce hi-tech crimes like identity fraud, phishing, botnet networks and attacks on public and private sector computer networks.
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shut down what it claims was the world's largest network of spammers. A security expert is warning privacy officers to expect inevitable changes to their role during the next 18-24 months, when the federal Privacy Act reforms pass. A new identity theft bill is set to become US federal law, adding stiffer penalties and stricter definitions for identity and information theft crimes. Deborah Platt Majoras, chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) since 2004 and a champion of identity theft protection for consumers, announced Thursday that she plans to leave her post in late March. Identity theft has become a multi-billion dollar issue that continues to accelerate, and protecting against it has become a multi-million dollar business, says Deloitte's Mark Steinhoff. A US federal grand jury has failed to return an indictment against the student accused of hacking into Sarah Palin's webmail account. A White House office is ordering all federal agencies to implement a new standard for securing DNS connections. A US federal judge has lifted a temporary injunction that denied three college students from presenting their subway payment hack research at the recent Defcon show. A federal grand jury in New Orleans has indicted a Brazilian man on charges he operated a botnet that was used to deliver spam. Civil liberties groups are stepping into the battle between the federal government and three students from MIT. In less than nine months in 2007, a botnet-driven junk mail network earned US$7.5 million for its operators -- just one example of the polished, modern-day spam operation, a panel said Wednesday at the SC World Congress. Recommendations from the Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency will be previewed at the SC World Congress. The Federal Government kicked-off National E-security week today with the launch of a new security alert service for internet users and small businesses.