The sophisticated cyberattack into U.S. defense contractor LockHeed Martin Corp. highlights the grave threat cyber criminals pose to companies, especially weapons manufacturers.
Surojit Chatterjee
May 30, 2011
ChronoPay, a Russian payment service company, has vehemently denied accusations that Mac Defender, the first scamware ever to strike Apple computers, is its “brainchild.”
IBT Staff Reporter
May 30, 2011
Mac Defender, the first major attack ever to strike Apple computers, has been traced to a Russian online payment service site ChronoPay, according to Brian Krebs, an online security researcher.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 30, 2011
The head of Georgia's rebel Abkhazia region Sergei Bagapsh, died on Sunday in a Moscow hospital after lung surgery, Abkhaz officials told Reuters.
Ankita Mehta
May 29, 2011
Harold Camping's May 21 doomsday prediction prompted rash reactions from many around the world, with at least two suicides.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 28, 2011
An e-mail belonging to ChronoPay financial controller Alexandra Volkova has been traced to MacDefender and Mac Security Scareware incidents, according to a new web security report.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 28, 2011
An Islamic states association has complained about a European draft resolution that asks the UN Security Council to condemn Syria and has demanded that part to be deleted.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 28, 2011
In a surprise move, Russia took the side of Britain and France over Libya for the first time yesterday, calling for the Middle-East despot to leave office.
Johnathan Davis
May 27, 2011
As NATO air-strikes hit Tripoli for the fifth straight night and Russia teaming up with Western powers in demanding his exit, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is feeling the heat of tightened military and diplomatic pressure, Reuters reported.
Kukil Bora
May 27, 2011
A Russian payment processing firm seems to be behind the Mac Defender scareware epidemic.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 27, 2011
British intelligence sources are convinced that Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi has become “paranoid” that NATO’s missile attacks on his country will lead to his death, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, quoting UK diplomats.
Palash Ghosh
May 27, 2011
According to a new book, the Vatican helped thousands of Nazis, including Adolf Eichmann and Dr. Josef Mengele, escape justice after the end of World War II.
Palash Ghosh
May 27, 2011
A court in Serbia has determined that Ratko Mladic, the former army commander accused of committing war crimes and genocide during the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s, is fit to be extradited and stand trial in The Hague.
Palash Ghosh
May 27, 2011
On the first day of the G8 Summit, the presidents of the European Commission and council and the leaders of the Group of Eight countries seemed primary to be focusing on the political situation in Middle East and North Africa, the debt crisis within EU and Japan's post-quake reconstruction, reported news.xinhuanet.com on Friday.
Drishya Nair
May 27, 2011
The highly visible baby bump of French First Lady, Carla Bruni, at the Group of 8 summit meeting on Thursday confirms the pregnancy rumors that have circulated in the last couple of months.
Monami Thakur
May 27, 2011
US Lawmakers sent a clear warning to President Barack Obama about growing exhaustion over the war in Afghanistan on Thursday as they passed a defense policy bill authorizing $690 billion in military spending for the 2012 fiscal year reported Reuters on Thursday.
Drishya Nair
May 26, 2011
Harold Camping's May 21 doomsday prediction prompted rash reactions from many around the world, with at least two suicides.
Johnathan Davis
May 26, 2011
The House of Representatives approved a $690 billion defense budget that would limit President Obama's ability to reduce the country's nuclear arsenal and to transfer terrorism suspects.
Jeremy White
May 26, 2011
Even as the United States and Russia work to implement a nuclear treaty to reduce their total number of nuclear weapons, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev touched upon the highly sensitive issue of missile defense on Thursday as he met with President Barack Obama at the G8 Summit in France.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 26, 2011
A Georgian opposition party protest in the capital of Tbilisi was violently broken down by riot police, who used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon to disperse several hundred demonstrators, who demanded the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili.
Balasubramanyam Seshan
May 26, 2011
India is talking with other emerging nations to build support for a common candidate for a developing economy to be the next head of the International Monetary Fund, with Mexico's Central bank chief being a possibility, said two government sources, reported Reuters.
Drishya Nair
May 25, 2011
The next chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will likely be one of two candidates, France Finance Minister Christine Lagarde (who has officially announced her interest in the job) and Mexico’s central bank governor Agustin Carstens, who is also lobbying for the sought-after position.
Palash Ghosh
May 25, 2011
