News About Cyber Warfare 05-AUG-08 en-us Washington (UPI) Jul 29, 2008 - American business executives visiting Beijing for the Olympics should not take their laptops or BlackBerrys and should "assume all electronic communications are monitored," according to a briefing prepared by a U.S. State Department advisory panel.]]> ]]> London (AFP) July 30, 2008 - A British man accused of hacking into the computer systems of the US military and NASA on Wednesday lost his appeal against extradition to face trial.]]> Washington (UPI) Jul 25, 2008 - The Web site of President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia was brought down this week by hackers apparently based in Russia, the latest in a string of cyberattacks directed against neighboring countries experiencing friction with the newly resurgent bear. ]]> Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2008 - Documents released Thursday show that undercover Maryland state police officers infiltrated three local peace and anti-death-penalty groups, attending organizing meetings and sending reports on their activities to U.S. intelligence and military agencies. ]]> ]]> Los Angeles (AFP) July 16, 2008 - Sony Online Entertainment is letting comic book lovers be first to try an online videogame that lets players invent superheroes that could go on to thrash even Superman.]]> Los Angeles, California (AFP) July 15, 2008 - The "Spore" alien population is exploding, boding well for the September launch of the latest brainchild of computer game legend Will Wright.]]> San Francisco (AFP) July 8, 2008 - Computer industry heavyweights are hustling to fix a flaw in the foundation of the Internet that would let hackers control traffic on the World Wide Web.]]> ]]> Washington (UPI) Jun 30, 2008 - The U.S. military is looking for a contractor to patrol cyberspace, watching for warning signs of forthcoming terrorist attacks or other hostile activity on the Web. ]]> Scott AFB IL (AFPN) Jun 26, 2008 - Air Force Cyber Command officials announced their intent to spread out headquarters staffing among nine locations so it can meet the 45 percent manning requirements needed for initial operations.]]> Washington (UPI) Jun 23, 2008 - Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., has blocked the Pentagon's nominee to head the Defense Information Systems Agency, because her husband is a senior executive at the nation's No. 3 defense contractor and the perceived conflicts of interest made the nomination "untenable."]]> ]]> ]]> Seoul (AFP) June 17, 2008 - South Korean prosecutors said Tuesday they had arrested five local Internet company chiefs for violating copyright laws, as one of the firms claimed the move was politically motivated.]]> Washington (UPI) Jun 9, 2008 - The growing prevalence of Web sites that can download malicious software onto the computers of unsuspecting visitors has led some to compare the Internet to the lawless Wild West, but a new survey suggests that in law and order terms, the Web looks more like a city with a broad variety of neighborhoods -- some safe, and some less so. ]]> Moscow (UPI) May 28, 2008 - Cyberspace, initially the invention of science fiction, has become a fact of everyday life. Digitalized documents, business transactions and information exchange have highlighted the need for cyberspace security. ]]> Advertise in Space War and reach thousands of industry, government and science readers the world over.

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