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Cyber theft shuts down EU carbon trading scheme
20 January 2011World's largest emissions trading scheme shut down after hackers steal €7 million worth of carbon credits
OECD warns of cyber attack 'perfect storm'
17 January 2011Report says that cyber attacks alone are unlikely to threaten national infrastructures unless used in tandem with other military tactics
UK signs up to EU fingerprint database
13 January 2011Immigration minister says admission to centralised database will prevent abuse of the asylum applications process
Bogus Whitehouse greeting harvests govt data
05 January 2011Malware-laced email masquerading as Christmas message from the Whitehouse steals data from government officials
Thousands of Hotmail users lose access to emails
04 January 2011Load-balancing error causes more than 17,000 Microsoft Hotmail accounts to temporarily lose stored emails
US not interested in protecting Europeans' data, says EU
21 December 2010EU's Justice Commissioner accuses US of "lack of interest" in protecting European citizens' private data during terrorism probes
Intel's McAfee buy 'facing EU antitrust probe'
20 December 2010US newspaper reports that chip giant's acquisition of security vendor McAfee will be scrutinised by European Union
Outage not down to cyber attack, says Amazon
13 December 2010Contrary to rumours that it fell victim to 'hacktivism', Amazon claims that outage for European sites was caused by hardware failure
US lobbied for Visa & Mastercard in Russia, leaks reveal
09 December 2010Cables published by Wikileaks reveal that the US government lobbied against a Russian rival to the payments companies, which both blocked funding to the transparency group and suffered DoS attacks in retailation
Amazon Web Services pulls plug on Wikileaks servers
02 December 2010Cloud computing provider removes controversial leaks site's servers from EC2 platform in face of US government pressure
FBI hunts man behind 'world's largest botnet'
01 December 2010US authorities finger Russian citizen Oleg Nikolaenko as controller of Mega-D botnet, which at one point was responsible for one third of all Internet spam
Iran confirms cyber attack on nuclear facilities
30 November 2010Iranian president Ahmadinejad accuses West and Israel of infecting nuclear centrifuges with malicious software, widely believed to be Stuxnet
China has been hacking US 'since 2002'
29 November 2010Leaked classified documents accuse China of long-term "co-ordinated campaign of computer sabotage" against US and its allies
UK govt to probe high-frequency trading
25 November 2010Government's chief scientific advisor to lead investigation of how computer-generated trading algorithms impact UK economy
Jailed hacker motivated by “feeling of power”
24 November 201018 months for IT security professional who used botnet to steal private documents for personal satisfaction
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