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OTTAWA Federal security agencies are working to deal with cyber threats, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday. He wouldn't speak directly to what the government calls an "unauthorized attempt" to access computer networks at the Treasury Board. The attack left civil servants in key departments without Internet access. Jay Denney, a spokesperson for Treasury Board president Stockwell Day, said security officials have taken action against the threat in line with the government's security policy. "There are no indications that any data relating to Canadians was compromised by this unauthorized attempt," said Denney. Details of the federal budget, expected to be delivered next month, are also apparently still secret.

After observing an increase in the number of phishing attacks and several other cyber crimes, the cyber police have intensified patrolling of the social networking sites. Police, with the help of IT experts, will keep a check on any hate posts or groups created in cyberspace. The action reportedly came after the recent incident where Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar's picture was defaced and it lead to riots in the Khar on Tuesday. Websites are patrolled round the clock to check for any objectionable content. Pages or groups that harm the sensitivities of people could be removed or the website could be brought down to avoid any incidents that could affect the law and order situation. All such hate postings will be forwarded to the India Computer Emergency Response Team (ICERT), a government body working under the ministry of information technology. The ICERT will then take up the matter to its logical conclusion by sending communication to these networking sites, asking them to block or remove t...

Operation Bahrain ( #opbahrain ) - Anonymous Press Release ! Dear Free-Thinking Citizens of THE WORLD,  The Bahrainian government has shown by its actions that it intends to  brutally enforce its reign of injustice by limiting free speech and  access to truthful information to its citizens and the rest of the  world. It is time to call for an end to this oppressive regime. The most  basic human right is the transparency of one's government, and  Bahrain's is no exception. By interfering with the freedom to hold peaceful protests, the Bahrainian  government has made itself a clear enemy of its own citizens and of  Anonymous. The actions of this regime will not be forgotten, nor will  they be forgiven.   When people are faced with such injustices, Anonymous hears those cries, and  we will assist in bringing to justice those who commit criminal acts  against the innocent. We will not remain silent and let these crimes...

Foreign hackers successfully penetrated the computer systems of the Canadian federal government. Last month was the first sign that the system had been compromised. The attacks, said to have come from China, hit both the Finance Department and the Treasury Board. Although no statements have been made aside from the government saying that there was an "attempt to access", the CBC's sources confirm that the hackers were able to remotely control computers in the offices of senior government executives, hoping to unlock entire government data systems. After realizing what had happened, government security officials immediately brought both departments offline. We haven't been informed whether anything was taken but CBC mentioned that its "Highly placed sources" told them that the  "cyberattacks were traced back to computer servers in China" but, really a hacker could likely make it appear to come from any server around the world. We're looking into this and we'll update if and when we...

THE BBC'S MUSIC WEBSITES have been hacked to stream malware using drive-by downloads for anyone browsing the infected webpages. Hackers set the drive-by malware up at the BBC's 6 Music website and the BBC 1Xtra radio station website. Researchers at the insecurity outfit Websense found the exploits and put its report up on its security labs blog. "The BBC - 6 Music Web site has been injected with a malicious iframe, as have areas of the BBC 1Xtra radio station Web site," an anonymous Websense insecurity researcher wrote. Websense claims the injected iframe is at the bottom of the BBC 6 Music webpage and has been set up to automatically download some dodgy code from a .cc website. Apparently the hack is exactly the same on the BBC's 1Xtra website. "If an unprotected user browsed to the site they would be faced with drive-by downloads, meaning that simply browsing to the page is enough to get infected with a malicious executable," Websense continued. ...