Ever since the search engine giant Google threatened to roll its China operations back, all thanks to the hacker attack that was recently made on Chinese Gmail accounts that resulted in theft of intellectual property, the country's problems as far as hacking goes have been thrown into considerable limelight.

According to Shenzhen Economic Daily’s Monday report, Internet search giant Google has threatened legal action against a Chinese website, ‘Goojje,’ which is reportedly using a mirror image of the Google logo.

Communication Minister Stephen Conroy reveal that he won't push for new laws to curb illegal file-sharing while the movie and internet industries are unable to work together.

Official reports have confirmed that the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act has managed to sail through the US House of Representatives, having gained approval by a huge margin.

The vote of 422-5 was much higher than initially expected and might just make it easier for the act to pass the Senate when it is put up for election.

According to a recent McAfee survey report, written by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), cyber-attacks are increasingly being used as a strategic weapon by governments as well as political organizations.

In a retaliatory move against Google, and in defense of China’s censorship of Web content, an unnamed spokesperson for China’s State Council Information Office recently emphasized the government’s right to punish citizens who use the Internet for the purpose of confronting Communist Party power and ethnic policies.

According to a new ruling issued by Judge Davis of the United States District Court, the original jury verdict of $1.9 Million against Minnesota native Jammie Thomas-Rasset in a music piracy case has been significantly reduced, from $80,000 per song to $2,250 per song.

Going by a report recently released by database security vendor Imperva Inc, most of the Internet users still go in for short and ‘weak’ passwords for their online accounts, thereby making it fairly easy for hackers to access their accounts.

The China launch of two new Android-based phones – a Samsung and a Motorola handset, which were scheduled to hit the stores on Wednesday via China Unicom - has been put off by Google in the wake of the ongoing discussions between the Internet search giant and the Chinese authorities.

In a Tuesday announcement, Microsoft said that it intends releasing an out-of-band patch on Wednesday, to fix the Internet Explorer’s “Aurora” vulnerability that was exploited to launch the recent hacker attacks against Google and some other companies.