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BREMERTON  — The partially naked photograph of a Bremerton teenager has managed to circulate to her e-mail contacts, teachers and even to colleges where she'd applied to school, according to Bremerton police reports. The girl said she'd sent a picture of herself wearing only underwear to her boyfriend about six months ago, police said. Recently, her computer has had problems and she believes it may have been hacked. She then discovered the photo, which was on the computer, had gone out to her e-mail contacts and asked police to investigate. Bremerton detectives are on the case. Anyone with information is asked to call 911.

The French Ministry of Finance was hit by an unprecedented cyber attack in December, with over 150 computers compromised, according to reports. Hackers got their hands on documents related to the current French presidency of the G20 and international economic affairs, Paris Match reported. Patrick Pailloux, the executive director of l'ANSSI (Agence Nationale de la Securite des Systemes d'Information), said it was the first time the French state had been targeted by an attack of this scale. Pailloux also revealed other French Government departments had been targeted. The hackers used a Trojan to infiltrate systems, having sent emails to French Government workers, using what appeared to be standard social engineering tactics. Pailloux said an operation had been carried out to improve defences at the Government department. There have been rumblings the attack came from China, although no solid proof has emerged. "I can say that we know of hacker groups in China specialising in t...

Concerns about North Korea's cyber warfare squads are resurfacing after Friday's cyber and GPS jamming attacks, which are being blamed on the North. Pyongyang began developing electronic warfare capabilities in 1986 when it founded Mirim University, the present-day Automation University, to train specialists. A defector who graduated from the university recalled that 25 Russian professors were invited from the Frunze Military Academy in the former Soviet Union to give lectures, and some 100 to 110 hackers were trained there every year.  Mirim is a five-year college. The Amrokgang College of Military Engineering, the National Defense University, the Air Force Academy and the Naval Academy are also reportedly training electronic warfare specialists.  Jang Se-yul of North Korean People's Liberation Front, an organization of former North Korean military officers and servicemen, recalled that when he fled the North in 2007, "I heard that the North Korean military has about ...

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An official with Iran's Revolutionary Guard has said that Iran welcomes hackers who are willing to work for the Islamic Republic.  "Regarding the cyber issue, we welcome the presence of those hackers who are willing to work for the goals of the Islamic Republic with good will and revolutionary activities," said Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali, adding that those hackers who he said are working against people will be dealt with. Jalali, who heads the country's Passive Defense Organization, made the comments in an  interview with "Bultannews,"  a website said to be close to the Intelligence Ministry. Was Jalali trying to recruit new staff for the "Iranian Cyber Army" or for Iran's newly launched cyber police? Or for a new entity called the "Cyber War Base "? Jalali said the "base" will be launched in the near future and will fight against cyber attacks. The  Iranian Cyber Army  has been responsible for hacking and bringing down a number of websites in ...