According to a report published in the New York Times (NYT) on Thursday, security investigations have revealed that the recent cyberattacks on Google and 30 other American companies had been initiated from two well-known schools in China – the Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School.

According to a Wednesday statement by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the failed al-Qaida attack, on the Amsterdam-Detroit Northwest Flight on Christmas Day, has prompted the airport security screeners to expand the use of swabs, which can detect explosives’ residues, to the hands of passengers and their carry-on baggage.

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.