NCS 9/19/11 – Sep 19,2011

Hackers don’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon. This time they reportedly managed to target U.S. intelligence officials, including some from the Obama Administration. The names and addresses of hundreds of those officials were posted on an anti-secrecy website after computer hackers allegedly took them from the internal membership list of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance. They may be hackers but they are saying no to cybercrime. Gong Wei and Wan Tow released a convention calling for the rejection of cybercrime. They are asking their associates and peers to support it. A UK tabloid will have to shell out some big bucks for its alleged role in phone hacking. News International, which is the UK division of News Corp, will reportedly pay $4.7 million to the family of Milly Dowler. She is the 13- year old murder victim allegedly involved in the News of the World phone hacking scandal.

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